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Index
Act of Six Articles 106, 116, 135, 154
Admiralty, see Royal Navy
Alençon, Francis, Duke of (later Duke of Anjou) 317, 320–4, 327
Alva, Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of 298, 303, 317, 324
Anjou, Henri, Duke of see Alençon, Francis, Duke of; Henri II, King of France
Anne of Cleves, Queen 108–9, 110–12, 113, 115
Anne of Denmark, Queen 364, 367
Annebaut, Claude d’ 129, 130–1, 133
Antonio, Don (Portugese pretender) 325
Appleyard, John 303
Arthur, Prince of Wales 9, 34, 36
Arundel, Earl of see Fitzalan, Henry
Arundell, Sir Thomas 79, 180
Ascham, Roger 105, 154, 193
Ashley, Katherine 264–5
Aske, Robert 98, 99
Askew, Anne 135, 136, 137, 156, 181, 198
Aucher, Sir Anthony 173
Aylmer, John 337
Babington, Dr Zachary 364
Babington Plot 342
Bacon, Francis 25, 26, 31
Baker, Matthew 210, 294
Bale, John 199
Beauchamp Chapel, St Mary’s Warwick ix, 334, 357, 358
Beauchamp, Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury 13
Beauchamp, Richard, Earl of Warwick 144, 334, 357
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond 7
Beaumont, James 45
Belknap, Edward 40
Bergavenny, Lord 24
Berwick 120–1, 148
Blagge, George 104
Blount, Sir Thomas 272, 274
Body, William 156
Boleyn, Anne, Queen 73–4, 75, 76–7, 78, 83, 84, 89
downfall 91, 92–4, 95, 100
Boleyn, George, Lord Rochford 91, 93
Boleyn, Mary 73–4
Boleyn, Thomas 95
Bonner, Edmund, Bishop of London 116, 162, 172, 230
Borroghe, John 208–9
Bosworth, Battle of 6, 7, 8
Bothwell, James 298, 329
Botolf, Gregory 113–14
Boulogne 126, 128, 130, 133, 148, 170
Bourchier, John, Lord Berners 68–9, 114
Bowes, Sir Robert 190
Boxall, John 268
Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk 58, 66, 69, 97, 126, 132, 214, 229, 239, 241, 242, 255
Brandon, Eleanor 214
Brandon, Frances, Duchess of Suffolk 214, 216, 255
Bray, Reginald 7–8, 10, 11, 17, 20, 25, 61
Bredhill, John 4–5, 24
Bridges, Sir John 242
Brigden, Susan 153
Brimald, John Baptist 40–1
Buckhurst, Lord 336
Burbage, Richard 297
Butts, Sir William 103, 119
Cabot, John 35, 133
Cabot, Sebastian 133, 210
Cade, Jack 4
Calais 66–9, 85, 112, 247–8, 249, 276, 279
Cambrai, Peace of 77
Camden, William 242
Camp, Treaty of 133–4, 135–6, 147
Carew, Sir George 79, 114, 130
Carew, Sir Nicholas 66, 106
Carey, Robert 348
Castiglione, Gianbattista 250
Catherine of Aragon, Queen 34, 44, 57, 73, 74, 75, 76–7, 83, 84, 92, 106, 342
Cavendish, Margaret 359–60, 362
Cavendish, Thomas 360, 362
Cecil, William
under Edward VI 173, 186, 188, 189, 191, 193, 203, 212, 215, 230
and John Dudley 149, 150, 151, 165
under Mary I 231, 250
under Elizabeth I 253, 254, 260, 266, 267–8, 270–1, 273, 276–7, 281, 284, 289, 290, 292, 301, 302, 303–4, 306, 307, 318–20, 325, 328, 332, 336, 338, 340, 344, 345, 352, 357
and Robert Dudley 270–1, 275, 308, 318
and death of Amy Dudley 271, 275
Chaloner, Sir Thomas 266
Chaloner, Thomas 359
Chancellor, Richard 210, 211
Chapuys, Eustace 106
Charles, Archduke of Austria 298, 302, 303
Charles I 366
Charles V, Emperor 34, 67, 68, 71–3, 75–6, 77, 92, 101, 111, 112, 128, 133, 202, 244, 246
Charles IX, King of France 284, 299, 301, 316, 317, 321
Cheke, Sir John 105, 143, 154, 193
Cheyney, Sir Thomas 156
Clement VII, Pope 74, 76, 77
Clerc, Sir Thomas 132
Cleves-Mark-Julich-Berg, William, Duke of 108, 111
Clifford, Henry, Earl of Cumberland 214, 215, 219
Clifford, Margaret 214, 216, 219
Clinton, Sir Edward 147, 148, 149, 159, 190, 305, 319
Clowes, William 293
Coke, Sir Edward 365
Colet, John 48
Coligny, Admiral 276, 299
Condé, Prince of 276, 299
Cooke, Anthony 105
Council Learned in the Law 10, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 40, 47
Council for Marine Causes, see Royal Navy Council of Regency 142, 171–2
Courtenay, Henry, Marquess of Exeter 106
Coverdale, Miles 104, 136
Cox, Richard 105, 143, 154
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 83, 95, 105, 112, 116, 119, 134, 143, 181, 210, 220–1, 224, 231, 239, 248
and downfall of Catherine Howard 117–18
on council of regency 142, 176, 179
religious reforms 154–5, 161, 195, 197–200
relationship with John Dudley 179, 205, 208, 209, 219, 223
Cromwell, Richard 114
Cromwell, Thomas 82–3, 85, 86, 95, 98, 100, 101, 102, 112–13, 252
and English Reformation 87–9, 96–7, 103, 107, 195, 197, 208
and downfall of Anne Boleyn 92–4
properties 108
created Earl of Essex 114
downfall 115, 116–7, 232
Cunningham, William 293
Darcy, Sir Thomas 179
Davison, William 326, 339, 342, 344, 345
Dee, John 211, 250, 295
Denny, Anthony 104, 119, 134, 171, 185
Denny, Lady 136
Devereux, Lettice, Countess of Essex see Dudley, Lettice
Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex 335, 348, 362–3
Devereux, Walter, Viscount Hereford, later Earl of Essex 313–14
Digges, Thomas 328
Dissolution of the Monasteries 88–9, 96, 107
Drake, Sir Francis 294, 319, 324–5
Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick 89, 168, 170, 237, 239, 244–5, 246, 248, 253, 261, 276, 277, 279, 280, 284, 290, 294, 305, 315, 325, 338, 340, 358
Dudley, Amy 168–9, 238, 248, 255, 256, 261–4, 269–75, 303
Dudley, Sir Andrew 79, 179, 185, 219, 231, 239, 244, 246
Dudley, Anne (wife of Edmund Dudley) 12
Dudley, Arthur, Prebendary of Worcester 80, 85
Dudley, Catherine (daughter of John Dudley) 89, 214, 215, 219, 257
Dudley, Lady Cecily 80
Dudley, Edmund
early life
ancestors 4–8
patronage of Reginald Bray 11
put to the law 11–12
under Henry VII
as councillor x, 14–17
justice of the peace and commissioner for concealed lands 14–16
relations with City of London 16, 28–9
Speaker of House of Commons 16
Privy Councillor 17, 19
relationship with king 19–20, 26, 41
on Council Learned in the Law 25, 26