Anne may have supplied Cromwell the evidence for her own case

Evidence

When Anne was arrested and taken to the Tower she began to unravel; she talked wildly about her co-accused, repeated the words she had exchanged with them; desperate to make sense of her situation, she detailed public quarrels, the jealousies and infighting within her circle. Every word went back to Cromwell. He may not have had a case till Anne built it for him. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1129

Categorization

• SEED: For a writer: the detail (interrogator letting the accused talk herself into incrimination) is a dramatic engine worth exploiting in historical fiction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1129