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There are two independent contemporary sources for the 1507 date.

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

" William Camden wrote a history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and was granted access to the private papers of Lord Burghley and to the state archives.

In that history, in the chapter dealing with Elizabeth's early life, he records in the margin that Anne was born in MDVII.