Nan Saville

LADIES IN WAITING

There were approximately 60 ladies-in-waiting in Anne Boleyn's household of 250 servants and following is a list of the known names:

Anne (Nan) Gainsford (Later Zouche)
Anne (Nan) Saville
Anne (Nan) Cobham
Margaret Dymoke
Honor Grenville
Elizabeth Holland (Bessie) The Duke of Norfolk's mistress
Mary Scrope
Elizabeth Wood, Lady Boleyn (wife of her uncle James Boleyn)
Margaret Wyatt, Lady Lee
Mary Wyatt

Jane Seymour

Jane Boleyn nee Parker, Lady Rochford (wife of her brother George Boleyn) did not give evidence at Anne's trial but Cromwell used some of her testimony.

Elizabeth Browne, Lady Worcester (sister of Sir Anthony Browne, a staunch supporter of Princess Mary Tudor, sister in law of William Brereton & step sister of Sir William Fitzwilliam who was heavily involved in the Boleyn enquiries) who Anne Boleyn had shown some concern for when she was pregnant and loaned her money. Alison Weir quotes her as saying [Anne Boleyn] "admitted some of her court to come into her chamber at undue hours",[Although the full extent of her testimony was never made public because Cromwell said it was "so abominable", and it was used against Anne.

Bridget Wiltshire, Lady Wingfield - whose deathbed (c.1534) knowledge of Anne Boleyn's early life & possible indiscretions were reported by her family to Cromwell. To whom Anne wrote a letter in 1532 after an argument:
"And, madam, though at all times I have not showed the love that I bear you as much as it was, yet now I trust that you shall know that I loved you a great deal more than I made feign for; and, assuredly, next to my own mother, I know no woman alive that I love better..."
John Spelman, one of the judges at Anne Boleyn's trial said: "Note that this matter was disclosed by a woman called the Lady Wingfield who was a servant of the said queen and shared the same tendencies. And suddenly the said Wingfield became ill and a little time before her death she showed the matter to one of her etc."