The King's Assassin

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by Benjamin Woolley

wife’s death

  Jesuits

  Jonson, Ben

  Josselyn, Elizabeth

  King’s Men, the

  Knollys, William, Lord Wallingford

  La Rochelle expeditions

  Lake, Sir Thomas

  Lambe, Dr John

  Laud, Bishop

  Leicester

  Lerma, Duke of

  Leviston, James

  Ley, James

  Lister, Dr Matthew

  Lloyd, Robert

  London

  celebrations for Charles’s return from Spain

  description

  gallows at Tyburn

  James’s dislike of

  plague

  publications

  theatres

  Tower

  weather

  Lorraine, Louise-Marguerite de

  Louis XIII, King of France

  character

  Charles’s marriage negotiations

  Charles’s visit

  George’s visit to escort Henrietta Maria

  relationship with wife Anne

  religious position

  response to Mansfeld’s expedition

  sister Henrietta Maria

  sister’s journey to England

  Lowther, Sir John

  Lyon, Anne

  Machiavelli, Niccolò

  Maestro, Father (Friar Diego Lafuente)

  The Malcontent (play)

  Manners, Francis, Earl of Rutland

  advice to George

  Charles’s return voyage from Spain

  command of Prince Royal

  daughter Kate

  daughter Kate’s marriage

  estates

  Garter investiture

  House of Lords voting

  James’s funeral

  religion

  rumours about

  Mansfeld, Count

  Maria, Infanta of Spain

  appearance

  Charles’s journey to Madrid

  Charles’s sightings of

  dowry

  Hay’s visit

  marriage negotiations

  marriage plans

  meetings with Charles

  preparations for her arrival

  rumours about

  Marlowe, Christopher

  Marston, John

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Matthew, Sir Toby

  May, Sir Humphrey

  Mayerne, Sir Theodore

  Maynard, John

  Medici, Marie de’

  Mercury Vindicated (masque)

  Mexia, Diego de

  Middleton, Thomas

  Mildmay, Sir Anthony

  Mompesson, Sir Giles

  Moore, Dr John

  Morley, Lord

  Murray, John, Earl of Annandale

  Napier, Richard

  Naunton, Sir Robert

  New Hall, Essex

  Nicholas, Edward

  Olivares, Gaspar de Guzmán, Conde de

  appearance and background

  arrival of Charles and George in Madrid

  austerity measures

  Charles’s wooing of infanta

  infanta’s marriage negotiations

  portrayal in A Game at Chess

  relationship with George

  wife

  Orléans, Gaston, Duc d’

  Overbury, Sir Thomas

  Oxford, Henry de Vere, Earl of

  Paddy, Sir William

  Palatinate

  British policy

  Charles’s Spanish marriage plans

  Imperial attack on

  Mansfeld’s mission

  ruler

  Spanish policy

  territory

  Paris

  arrival of Charles and George

  description

  George’s arrival to escort Henrietta Maria to England

  Henrietta Maria’s departure

  proxy wedding of Henrietta Maria and Charles

  Parliament

  adjournment (1625)

  advice given to James

  advice sought by James

  Banqueting House presentation

  case against George

  Charles’s Personal Rule

  Committee of Twelve

  committee to enquire into grievances

  Digby’s denunciation of George

  dismissal (1621)

  dismissal (1640)

  dissolution (1626)

  elections

  fall of Bacon

  foreign policy debate

  Gunpowder Plot

  House of Commons

  House of Lords

  imprisonment of MPs in Tower

  James’s attitude to

  James’s first II

  James’s response to advice

  joint committee of both Houses

  joint meeting of both Houses (1628)

  opening (1625)

  opening (1626)

  Oxford session (1625)

  plague effects

  ‘proclamation’ on tax and Spanish marriage

  ‘protestation’ to king

  recalled (1621)

  Scottish

  Spanish marriage policy

  Spanish plot to cause king to break with

  subsidies

  summoned (1624)

  summoned (1625)

  suspended (1624)

  Westminster

  Pembroke, Earl of see Herbert (William)

  Pennington, John

  Philip III, King of Spain

  Philip IV, King of Spain

  accession

  ambassador

  appearance

  art collection

  Charles’s departure

  court

  foreign policy

  infanta’s marriage negotiations

  infanta’s meeting with Charles

  meeting with George and Charles

  palaces

  portrayal in A Game at Chess

  public welcome for Charles

  relationship with George

  troops

  Pierpoint, Sir Robert

  Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (masque)

  Porter, Endymion

  Charles’s expedition to Madrid

  description of infanta

  Spanish Match

  Primrose, Gilbert

  Prince Royal

  Privy Council

  arguments for war

  Bacon’s view of

  Carr’s pardon

  Charles proclaimed king

  Charles’s government

  Coke affair

  Digby enquiry

  Felton’s grievances

  George’s membership

  Globe Theatre closed

  James’s illness

  junta

  list of George’s enemies

  London searches ordered

  monopolies issue

  pass for Villiers boys

  Scottish

  Spanish marriage plans

  Pym, John

  Ralegh, Sir Walter

  Ramsay, John

  Ramsey, Dr Alexander

  Ramsey, Robert

  Ré, Île de

  Redworth, Glyn

  Remington, John

  Reynor, Elizabeth

  Reynor, Sir William

  Rich, Henry, Earl of Holland

  Rich, Robert, Earl of Warwick

  Richelieu, Cardinal

  Rizzio, David

  Roos, Anna

  Rochefoucauld, Cardinal de la

  Rubens, Peter Paul

  buys copy of The Forerunner

  paintings for Marie d’ Medici

  portrait of George

  portrait of Lerma

  Rudyard, Benjamin

  Russell, Edward, Earl of Bedford

  Rutland, Earl of see Manners

  Sackville, Sir Edward

  St Paul’s Cathedral

  St Pierre of Le Havre

  Salvetti, Amerigo

  Sandys,
Sir Edwin

  Scotland

  Charles’s ‘sworn king of’

  ‘debateable lands’ with England

  James’s 1617 visit

  James’s departure for England

  James’s upbringing

  relations with Spain

  troops for Mansfeld mission

  union with England

  Scottish Privy Council

  Seymour, Edward, Earl of Hertford

  Shirley, James

  Snowden, Robert

  Somerset, Countess of see Howard

  Somerset, Earl of see Carr

  Soubise, Duc de

  Southampton, Earl of see Wriothesley

  Southwick House

  Spain

  ambassadors see Coloma, Gondomar Hinojosa

  art collections

  court

  embassy in London

  finances

  monarchy

  Spalato, Marc Antonio de Dominis Archbishop of

  Spencer, Sir John

  Spinola, Ambrogio

  Stuart, Esmé

  Stuart, Henry, Lord Darnley

  Stuart, Ludovick, Duke of Lennox and Richmond

  Stuart, Marjory

  Talbot, Anne

  Talbot, Henry

  Talbot, Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury

  Theobalds

  arrival of Spanish envoys

  Charles’s departure for Spain

  Charles’s return from Spain

  collapse of floor

  history

  hunting at

  James’s death

  James’s health

  James’s isolation at

  James’s last illness

  James’s relationship with George

  James’s visits

  Parliamentary delegation

  Thunderstruck, Richard

  Tillières, Comte de

  Titian

  Toothbie, Captain

  Tradescant, John

  Trumbull, William

  Turner, Dr Samuel

  Van Male, Jean Baptiste

  Vatican

  Vautor, Thomas

  Velázquez

  Venetian ambassadors

  on charges against Charles

  on Charles’s accession

  on Charles’s marriage

  on friendship of Charles and George

  on George’s anxiety

  on George’s foreign policy

  on George’s illness

  on Goring

  on James’s favourites

  on James’s financial demands

  on James’s foreign policy

  on James’s health

  on Parliament

  on rumours of poisoning

  on Spanish envoys

  Villiers, Sir Edward (George’s half-brother)

  Villiers, Frances (née Coke, George’s sister-in-law)

  Villiers, George, first Duke of Buckingham

  advice from archbishop

  advice from Bacon

  appearance

  arrival at court

  arrival in Madrid

  art collection

  attacked in Portsmouth

  Banqueting House presentation to MPs

  betrothal

  body lying in state

  Cadiz expedition

  Cambridge University chancellorship

  Cecil House residence

  character

  charges against

  Charles’s coronation

  childhood

  children

  dancing

  daughter’s betrothal

  death

  death predicted

  departure from Madrid

  education

  Eliot’s case against

  Elizabeth of Bohemia’s appeal

  epitaph

  fall from horse in Parliamentary procession

  finances

  first encounter with James

  first gentleman of the royal bedchamber

  foreign policy plans (anti-Habsburg league)

  French negotiations

  Garter investiture

  general pardon

  gentleman of the bedchamber

  grave

  greed

  health

  House of Lords appearances

  hunting at Theobalds

  illness

  impeachment charges

  impeachment demanded

  ‘intelligencers’

  investigation of, and case against

  James’s deathbed

  journey to England with Henrietta Maria

  journey to London

  journey to Paris to escort Henrietta Maria

  knighted by James

  La Rochelle expedition

  Lord Admiral of the Fleet

  marriage

  Master of the Horse

  medical treatments

  medical treatments for James

  monopolies

  New Hall home

  niece’s marriage

  papal dispensation for Charles’s Spanish marriage

  parliamentary proxy

  pawning Crown Jewels

  pet name

  poisoning accusations

  poisoning charge

  poisoning opportunity, means and motive

  poisoning rumours

  portrait at Highgrove

  portrait by Rubens

  portrayal in A Game at Chess

  Portsmouth arrival

  Privy Council

  relationship with Anne of Austria

  relationship with Bacon

  relationship with Carr

  relationship with Charles

  relationship with Gondomar

  relationship with Henrietta Maria

  relationship with James

  relationship with Lambe

  relationship with mother

  relationship with Parliament

  relationship with Pembroke

  relationship with wife

  reputation

  response to death of James

  return to court after illness

  return to London

  rumours of sexual scandals

  Scottish Privy Council

  Scottish visit

  scurrilous poems about

  secret expedition to Spain

  ship St Pierre seized

  at Spanish court

  Spanish marriage negotiations

  Spanish plot against

  status as royal favourite

  supporters

  supporters (junta)

  titles and lands

  trapped in Madrid

  travels in France

  Wallingford House

  war policy

  witchcraft allegations

  York House

  Villiers, George, second Duke of Buckingham (son of above)

  Villiers, Sir George (George’s father)

  Villiers, John, Viscount Purbeck (George’s elder brother)

  appearance

  character

  childhood

  knighthood

  marriage

  mental health

  travels in France

  Villiers, Sir John (George’s uncle)

  Villiers, Kate, Duchess of Buckingham (née Manners, George’s wife)

  appearance

  character

  children

  correspondence with husband

  death of husband

  dowry

  family background

  Gondomar’s messages

  in Portsmouth

  relationship with husband

  relationship with James

  religion

  Villiers, Kit, Earl of Anglesey (Christopher, George’s younger brother)

  appearance

  character

  childhood

  court position

  finances

  health

  marriage

  titles

  Villiers, Mary
(‘Mal’, George’s daughter)

  Villiers, Mary, Countess of Buckingham (née Beaumont, George’s mother)

  appearance

  arrival of Henrietta Maria

  astrological consultations

  character

  children

  death of first husband

  death of second husband

  entertainment of James at Gotly

  family background

  finances

  Gondomar’s messages

  marriages

  medical treatments

  medical treatments for James

  Parliament ceremony with Henrietta Maria

  relationship with James

  relationship with son George

  religion

  response to death of son George

  scurrilous poems about

  son George’s death predicted

  son George’s marriage

  son John’s marriage

  Star Chamber hearing

  title

  Villiers, Susan (George’s sister) see Feilding

  Villiers, Sir William (George’s half-brother)

  Villiers family

  Wake, Sir Isaac

  Wallingford House

  Wandesford, Christopher

  Webster, John

  Weldon, Anthony

  Wentworth, Sir Thomas

  Westminster, Palace of

  Charles’s arrival

  Painted Chamber

  palace complex

  plague

  Westminster Abbey

  White Mountain, Battle of the

  Whitehall, Palace of

  Banqueting House

  goods stolen from

  great hall

  palace complex

  proclamation of Charles’s succession

  proclamation of royal marriage

  reception for Spanish ambassadors

  Shield Gallery

  Tilt Yard

  Whiteway, William

  Williams, John, Bishop, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

  account of James’s deathbed speech

  James’s funeral

  James’s last illness

  plague concerns

  relationship with Charles

  relationship with George

  Spanish marriage policy

  Willoughby, George

  Wilson, Arthur

  Winwood, Sir Ralph

  Wotton, Sir Henry

  description of Charles’s secret expedition

  descriptions of George

  investigation of Hamilton story

  Wriothesley, Henry, Earl of Southampton

  Wyatt, Sir Thomas

  Wylde, John

  Wynn, Owen

  Yates, Edward

  York House

  Zouch, Sir Edward

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  About the Author

  Benjamin Woolley is an author and broadcaster whose work covers subjects ranging from the origins of virtual reality, to the Elizabethan philosopher, scientist and conjurer John Dee, and from the mathematician and computing pioneer (and daughter of Lord Byron) Ada Lovelace to the history of colonial America. His books, including The King's Assassin, have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, and his documentaries broadcast across the world. He lives in London. You can sign up for email updates here.

 

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