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2 unusual facts about Eric Ives


Eric Ives

His theories on her life have drawn him into fierce debate with the American historian Retha Warnicke, who wrote The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn in 1989 to challenge Ives's findings.

Statute of Uses

Decades later, both Francis Bacon and Edward Coke gave readings on it, while William Holdsworth called it "perhaps the most important addition that the legislature has ever made to our private law", with Eric Ives writing that "the importance of the Statute of Uses is beyond doubt. The effect its provisions had on English land law development was revolutionary, and from it have grown the crucial doctrines of the trust".


Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire

Anne's two chief biographers, Eric Ives and Retha Warnicke, both concluded that these charges were fabricated.


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