Devices and Desires
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25All details for the building of the New Hall are taken from Durant and Riden (eds), Building of Hardwick Hall: Part I and Part II.
26BHL, ID 235.
18. London, 1591
1All details of London visit 1591–2, unless stated otherwise, are taken from Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, and also Edward Whalley’s account book, Folger V.b. 308.
2Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, H/143/41.
3Durant, Bess of Hardwick, p.169.
4Levey, Elizabethan Inheritance, p.24.
5See Girouard, Robert Smythson, p.124.
6BHL, ID 163.
7Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.50.
8Durant and Riden (eds), Building of Hardwick Hall: Part II, Appendix 1.
9Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.58.
19. ‘More glass than wall’
1All details for the building of the New Hall, unless stated otherwise, are taken from Durant and Riden (eds), Building of Hardwick Hall: Part II.
2Quoted in Kettle, p.19.
3BHL, ID 108.
4Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.66.
5BHL, ID 124.
6Durant, Bess of Hardwick, p.182.
7Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.154.
8Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/5.
9Talbot MSS, LPL, 3199, f.353, and BHL, ID 215.
10BHL, ID 102.
11For loans see Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7 and H/143/43.
12Payments to Balechouse in Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7 and HM/8.
13Airs, p.127.
14See Pete Smith, National Trust Historic Houses and Collections Annual 2015, pp.50–6.
15Stallybrass, p.378.
16BHL, ID 16.
17BHL, ID 1.
18Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, ff.59 and 81.
19Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.152.
20Ibid., f.76.
21Ibid., f.37, and Stallybrass, p.379.
22Durant, Bess of Hardwick, p.185.
23Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, f.111.
24Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, H/143/44.
25Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.189.
20. ‘Houshold stuff’
1All details for life at Hardwick, unless stated otherwise, are taken from Bess’s household accounts, Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7 (1591–97) and HM/8 (1598–99).
2Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.75.
3BHL, ID 103.
4Stallybrass, p.383.
5Stallybrass, p.389.
6Levey, Elizabethan Inheritance, p.29.
7Riden (ed.), Household Accounts, Part 2, p.272, and Part 3, p.103.
8Levey and Thornton (eds).
9Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, H/143/43.
10The tapestry hangings may have been acquired by Sir William Cavendish (Levey, Elizabethan Inheritance, p.26).
11Balechouse was supplied with white lead, red lead, yellow ochre, chalk and varnish (Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, f.45).
12Riden (ed.), Household Accounts, Part 2, p.124.
13Durant and Riden (eds), Building of Hardwick Hall: Part II, p.243.
14Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, f.63.
15Adshead and Taylor (eds), p.150.
16Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, f.127.
17Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.58.
18Riden (ed.), Household Accounts, Part 2, p.254.
19Ibid., p.354.
20See Girouard, Robert Smythson, p.176.
21Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, f.69.
22Ibid., f.117.
23Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, H/143/40.
24CP 80/9.
25CP 250/16.
26BHL, ID 20.
27CP 250/8.
28Riden (ed.), Household Accounts, Part 3, p.103.
29Bess’s will: TNA PROB 11/111, ff.188–193. Also see Collins, p.15, and White, Appendix 4.
21. ‘A scribbling melancholy’
1Folger X.d.428 (120).
2Quoted in Guy, Elizabeth, p.368.
3Quoted in Durant, Arbella Stuart, p.60.
4Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, ff.83 and 88.
5Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/8, ff.60 and 79, and HM/7, f.140.
6Steen (ed.), p.135.
7Ibid., p.168.
8HMC Salisbury, Vol. XIV, p.254.
9Steen (ed.), p.121.
10Ibid., p.153.
11BHL, ID 128.
12BHL, ID 136.
13BHL, ID 129.
14BHL, ID 130.
15Steen (ed.), p.153.
16BHL, ID 141.
17BHL, ID 130.
18Steen (ed.), p.158.
19BHL, ID 132.
20BHL, ID 134.
21BHL, ID 135.
22Riden (ed.), Household Accounts, Part 3, p.17.
23BHL, ID 53.
24Folger X.d.428 (116).
25Nichols, The Progresses of King James I, Vol. I, p.17.
26Quoted in Gristwood, p.257.
22. ‘It doth stick sore in her teeth’
1BHL, ID 35.
2BHL, ID 140.
3Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.124.
4Quoted in Durant, Arbella Stuart, p.117.
5Steen (ed.), pp.184 and 193.
6Riden (ed.), Household Accounts.
7Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, H/143/14.
8BHL, ID 63.
9BHL, ID 11.
10Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.300.
11Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.327.
12Steen (ed.), p.202.
13Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.7.
14Ibid., f.13.
15BHL, ID 19.
16Talbot MSS, LPL, 3203, f.308.
17Levey and Thornton (eds), p.47.
18Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/7, f.96.
19Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.266.
20Ibid., f.44.
21Quoted in Rawson, p.343.
22Talbot MSS, LPL, 3203, f.290.
23Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.44.
24Ibid., f.310.
23. ‘Not over sumptuous’
1Quoted in Durant, Bess of Hardwick, p.220.
2Folger X.d.428 (59).
3Ibid. (60).
4Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.62.
5Talbot MSS, LPL, 3203, f.349.
6CP 121/25.
7CP 121/24.
8Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.149.
9Ibid., f.151.
10Stone, Family and Fortune, p.32.
11BHL, ID 4.
12BHL, ID 89.
13Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.59.
14CP 123/123.
15See John Chamberlain, 8 January 1608, in The Letters of John Chamberlain, Philadelphia, 1939.
16BHL, ID 90.
17Quoted in Rawson, p.346.
18Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.482.
19Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.481.
20Levey and Thornton (eds), p.53.
21Shrewsbury MSS, LPL, 710, f.61.
22Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, H/143/17, Shrewsbury MSS, LPL, 710, f.61, and White, Appendix 4.
23HMC Salisbury, Vol. 20, p.67.
24Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/29, f.4.
25Johnson, Vol. V, p.398.
26HMC Salisbury, Vol. XX, p.96.
27Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.143.
28HMC Salisbury, Vol. XX, p.67.
29Talbot MSS, LPL, 3205, f.384.
30Shrewsbury MSS, LPL, 707, f.112.
31Talbot MSS, LPL, 3202, f.155.
32For details of the Chatterton scandal, see TNA STAC 8/13/8.
33HMC Longleat, Talbot Papers, Vol. V, p.134.
34TNA C/1123 and TNA PROB 11/111, ff.188–193.
35For funeral expenses, see Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, HM/29, f.27.
36Burghley’s funeral cost £1,000 and that of Leicester £3,000. See Stone, Crisis of the Aristocracy, Appendix XXV.
37Quoted in Rawson, p.347.
38Durant, Bess of Hardwick, p.226.
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Abrahall, Mrs (lady-in-waiting) 226
Abrahall, Richard 249
Accres, Grace 247
Accres, Thomas (stonemason) 158, 163, 206, 245–6, 247, 250, 253
Act Against Usury (1571) 240
Act of Supremacy (1534) 7
Act of Uniformity (1559) 93
Adams, James 246
Agard, Frances 32
Agard, Thomas 32
Aldwark (Derbyshire) 75–6
Allen, Thomas 58
Alsope (a carrier) 70
Amman, Jost 220n
Angell (male embroiderer) 102
Arundel, Earl of see Howard, Thomas, 21st Earl of Arundel
Arundel, Lady see Howard, Anne, Countess of Arundel
Arundell, Margaret Willoughby 161
Arundell, Sir Matthew 161
Ascham, Roger 15
Ashford manor (Derbyshire) 32, 64, 174–5, 187
Ault Hucknall 243, 274
Ault Hucknall church 4–5
Aylmer, John, Bishop of London 15, 68
Babington, Anthony 190
Babington, Henry 79, 190
Babington Plot (1586) 189–90
Babington, Thomas 28
Bacon, Anne Coke 3, 22, 229
Bacon, Francis xviii, 34, 85
Bacon, Sir Nicholas 3, 22, 95, 129n
Bagot, Richard 246
Baldwin, Thomas 154, 159, 166–8, 183
Balechouse (or Painter), John (painter and supervisor) 201, 209, 225, 234, 242, 250, 253, 257
Barlborough Hall (Derbyshire) 163n, 233, 236
Barley, Arthur 10–11
Barley, George 12
Barley, Peter 208
Barley, Robert 9–11, 14, 15, 77, 88, 208
Barnett (male embroiderer) 102
Bartholomew Fair 46 and note
Basil, Simon 291n
Battell, Frances 177
Baynton, Anne Cavendish 253, 264
Baynton, Sir Henry 72, 253
Beale, Robert 155, 191
Beaton, John 112
Beauchamp, Lord see Seymour, Edward, Lord Beauchamp
Bentall, George 169
Bentley, Sir John 282, 286, 295
Beresford, Henry 225
Berrone, Sir John 216
Berryman, John (mason) 45
Bertie, Peregrine 122
Bertie, Richard 87, 122
Bestnay, Robert 49
Blackwell-in-the-Peak (Derbyshire) 261n
Bog, Alexander ‘Sandy’ 100–1
Boleyn, Anne 6, 7, 8
Bolsover Castle xix, 140, 151, 217, 249n, 261, 290n
Bolton Castle 95, 97
Bond Association (1584) 190
Book of Common Prayer 30, 93
Booth, Nicholas 153, 154, 174
Boswell, Godfrey 28
Boswell, Jane Hardwick (sister of BH) 3, 28
Bothwell, Earl of see Hepburn, James, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Bradgate House (Leicestershire) 14–15, 16, 27, 42, 160
The Brails (Wiltshire) 44
Bramley, William (joiner) 247, 250
Brandon, Charles, 1st Duke of Suffolk 14, 23, 27, 122
Brandon, Henry, 2nd Duke of Suffolk 27, 30–1
Brandon, Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk 26–7, 87, 122–3, 124
Brandon, Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk 14, 55, 124
Britton, Eleanor xxviii, 195, 213, 214, 240
Brooke, Catherine Cavendish 26, 29, 31, 81
Brooke, Elizabeth see Parr, Elizabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton
Brooke, Frances Newton, Lady Cobham 74–5, 90, 127, 186, 228, 229, 298
Brooke, Rev Sir George 278
Brooke, George, 9th Baron Cobham 22
Brooke, Henry, 11th Baron Cobham 278
Brooke, Thomas 31, 81
Brooke, William, 10th Baron Cobham 74, 246
Brounker, Sir Henry 269–70, 271, 273–4, 275
Buckhurst, Lord see Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset
Bugby, John 5
Burghley House (Peterborough) 24, 35, 129, 130, 244
Burghley, Lord see Cecil, William, Lord
Burghley Burton Agnes Hall (Yorkshire) 261n
Buxton Old Hall 118–19, 135, 136, 145
Buxton waters 85, 99, 117–19, 136, 153
Bye Plot (1603) 278
Byrd, William 259
Cade, William 49
Caithness, Bishop of see Stewart, Robert, Bishop of Caithness, Earl of Lennox
Calvin, John 3
Camden, William 161, 222
Britannia 3n
Campion, Father Edward 193
Carew, Sir Peter 41, 55
Carpenter, William 223
Carré, Jean 243
Carthusian monks 7
Cartwright, Mary 293–4
Casket Letters 95–6
Catesby, Robert 288
Catherine of Aragon 2, 6
Catherine de Medici 92
Catholics, Catholicism 3, 7, 33, 38, 41, 93, 95, 106, 109, 111–12, 125, 146, 148, 179, 190, 192 and note, 193, 195, 203, 206, 220, 234, 274, 278–9, 288–9
Cavendish, Ann Keighley 150, 251
Cavendish, Anne (stepdaughter of BH) 26, 29, 72
Cavendish, Catherine Ogle 152
Cavendish, Catherine (stepdaughter of BH) 26, 29, 72
Cavendish, Charles (son of BH)
builds and designs houses xix, 151, 261, 290–1
birth of 40
Mary Tudor as godmother to 40
education of 79–80, 109
Bess’s estates settled upon him and his brother William 116, 168, 217
relationship with Bess 148, 290
character and description 151, 290
marries Margaret Kitson 151–2
marries Catherine Ogle 167
accused of spreading ‘false rumors’ by Shrewsbury 169
as possible spy for Mary Stuart 178
at the centre of Shrewsbury’s dispute with Bess 181–2, 187–8
informs Bess of Arbella’s reception at court, news of family and additions to Theobalds 203–5
challenges John Stanhope to a duel 215
receives loans and cash from Bess 228, 242
may have employed Smythson on two of his houses 249n
visits Hardwick to discuss his building projects 256–7
leases then buys Welbeck Abbey from Gilbert Talbot 261, 290
as beneficiary of Bess’s will 263, 294, 295
Cavendish, Christian Bruce 296
Cavendish, Elizabeth see Stuart, Elizabeth Cavendish, Lady Lennox (daughter of BH)
Cavendish, Elizabeth Wortley 261, 279–80, 282
Cavendish, Evelyn, Duchess of Devonshire 301–2
Cavendish, Frances see Pierrepont, Frances Cavendish (daughter of BH)
Cavendish, Frances (granddaughter of BH) 263
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of 301
Cavendish, Grace Talbot 89, 149–50, 209, 263, 281
The Cavendish Hanging (1570) 16 and note, 17, 50
Cavendish, Henry (son of BH)
birth of 31
as source of much trouble and disappointment 31, 149–50
Northumberland as godfather to 39
Elizabeth I as godmother to 53
education of 70, 79
takes possession of Chatsworth lands 88
marries Grace Talbot 89
sent on grand tour of France and Italy 109, 149
fathers numerous illegitimate children 149
military career 149
relationship with Bess 149–50, 176
sent to Constantinople for ‘turkie carpets’ 209–10, 255
receives loans and cash from Bess 228, 242
as beneficiary of Bess’s will 263
involved in plots against James VI and I 278
feels ‘hardly dealt with’ by both Bess and Gilbert 281
&
nbsp; refuses William’s offer to buy Chatsworth 293
reports to Gilbert on Wylkyn’s marriage to Christian Bruce 296
sells Chatsworth to William 296
Cavendish, James (grandson of BH) 251, 263
Cavendish, Lucretia 46, 49 and note
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle 11
Cavendish, Margaret Kitson 151–2
Cavendish, Mary 26
Cavendish, Spencer, 8th Duke of Devonshire 301
Cavendish, Temperance (daughter of BH) 31, 42, 87
Cavendish, Victor, 9th Duke of Devonshire 301
Cavendish, William 1st Duke of Newcastle (grandson of BH) 11, 24n
Cavendish, William, 1st Earl of Devonshire (son of BH)
birth of 31
Hardwick Old Hall as possible house for xxix
Owlcotes built for xviii, 235–6, 260–1
buys a great many books 3 and note
education of 70, 79, 80, 109
Bess’s estates settled upon him and his brother Charles 116, 168, 217
as Bess’s de facto heir 150
character and description 150–1
marries Anne Keighley 150
demands money from Shrewsbury for ‘lott and cope’ 169
Hardwick estate bought in his name by Bess 173
removes furnishings from Chatsworth to Hardwick 175
sent to Fleet prison 175, 176
at the centre of Shrewsbury’s dispute with Bess 181–2, 187–8
health of 204
receives New Year cash gift from Bess 228
manors and rectories settled on 240
and death of his wife 251
involved in founding of East India Company 255
rooms at Hardwick for 255, 256
as music-lover 259
marries Elizabeth Wortley 261, 279–80
acts as Bess’s representative in London 262–3
as beneficiary of Bess’s will 263
promises his son gifts if he speaks Latin with Arbella 267n
takes care of Bess’s day-to-day business 279, 280–1
coexists with Bess at Hardwick 280–1
as extravagant shopper 280n
becomes Baron Cavendish 283–4
offers to buy Chatsworth from Henry 293
takes charge after Bess’s death 295
becomes 1st Earl of Devonshire 300
death of 300
Cavendish, William, 4th Earl (and 1st Duke of Devonshire) 34, 298
Cavendish, William, 5th Duke of Devonshire 301
Cavendish, William, 6th Duke of Devonshire (‘the Bachelor Duke’) 34, 301
Cavendish, William, 7th Duke of Devonshire 301
Cavendish, Sir William
buys several properties including Chatsworth xviii, 32–4
marries Bess of Hardwick 14, 16
birth and background 17, 18
appointed auditor to the Court of Augmentations 18–19
character and description 19–20
marries Margaret Bostock 19