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  Digby, Mrs (lady in waiting), 117

  Dodderidge, John (Good), 154, 186–9, 191, 205, 349

  Doleman, R., 142–5, 147, 160, 171–2, 185

  Dowland, John, 312

  Draper, Hew, 392

  Drummond, Jane (Jean), 354

  Dudley, Guildford, 391

  Dudley, Sir Robert, 370

  Dudley, Thomas, 450

  Duffield, captain, 140

  Durant, David, 452

  Dyer, William, 447

  Edward VI, king of England, 36, 43, 68

  Elizabeth, princess (later queen of Bohemia): relationship with A, 253, 305; apartments, 296; Gunpowder Plot, 305; in masques, 341; brother’s death, 411; marriage, 413–14; portraits, 476, 478; coffin, 473

  Elizabeth I, queen of England: mother’s death, 54; education, 75–80; dress, 89, 309; dancing, 95; health, 215; Seymour relationship, 44, 184, 209–10, 335; in Tower, 278, 393; accession, 37; religion, 128; marriage possibilities, 97–8; relationship with Leicester, 134; question of heir, 43, 44, 68, 91, 124–5, 149–50, 159–60, 241, 244; relationship with Mary, 32, 35, 61, 65–6, 68, 83, 92; plots against, 32; attitude to subjects’ marriages, 344; Lennox marriage, 34; A’s birth, 41; A’s inheritance, 48, 52, 167; Lennox funeral, 50; pension for A, 52, 55, 111; portraits, 91, 137; A presented to, 92–8, 99–100; Tilbury speech, 106; relationship with A, 103–5, 111, 122, 152, 168, 173, 195; relationship with Essex, 132–3, 152–3, 160–6; dying, 185, 206, 218–19, 235, 236, 239–41, 432; death, 241; funeral, 256–7

  Elphinstone, Sir John, 312

  Erondell, Peter, 54

  Essex, Frances, countess of, 290, 406

  Essex, Robert Devereux, second earl of: appearance, 105; character, 105, 132–3, 133, 215; father’s death, 160; health, 215; relationship with Elizabeth, 96, 105, 118, 132–3, 142–4, 152–3, 160, 215; relationship with A, 96, 105–6, 107, 133–5, 141–2, 431; correspondence with James, 118, 141–2; marriage, 133; French wars, 114; religion, 127; influence, 132, 141, 151; relationship with Cecil, 132, 151, 168–9; intelligence sources, 137, 139, 151; Cadiz expedition, 151, 153; popularity, 153; Irish campaign, 160–1, 162; rebellion, 164, 248, 257, 305; destruction of papers, 134; trial, 164–6; execution, 165–6, 176, 225, 240, 257

  Essex, Robert Devereux, third earl of, 305, 444, 445

  Farnese, see Parma

  Fawkes, Guido, 305

  Fenelon, Bertrand de Salignac, 38

  Fenton, Sir Thomas Erskine, Viscount, 257, 293, 295, 325, 361, 420–1

  Fisher, John, 393, 399

  Fitzgibbon, B., 405–6

  Fitzherbert family, 126

  Fleming, Sir Thomas, 360

  Fletcher, John, 310, 327, 386

  Flick, captain, 385

  Foljambe, Mary, Lady, 126

  Fontanus, Nicholas, 212

  Forman, Simon, 40, 69

  Foscarini, Antonio, 376, 377–8, 436

  Fowler, Thomas, 38, 52, 301–2

  Fowler, William, 301–2

  Fraser, Antonia, 80, 344, 464

  Freake (embroiderer), 232, 322, 349

  Frederick, elector Palatine, 413–14

  Freeman, Thomas, 317

  Fugger newsletters, 73, 170, 433

  Garnet, Henry, 396

  Gascoigne, George, 457

  George III, king, 213, 214

  Gerard, John, 126, 371, 398

  Goodere, Sir Henry, 99

  Goodman, Godfrey, 389

  Gorges, Prospero, 361

  Gosson, Philip, 90

  Gowrie, John Ruthven, third earl of, 401–2

  Greene, Robert, 115

  Greville, Sir Fulke, 114

  Grey, Lady Catherine, see Seymour

  Grey, Lady Jane (later Dudley): birth, 43; interests, 74, 77; betrothal, 358; marriage, 391; Testament, 188; execution, 43, 82, 278, 381

  Grey, Lady Mary, 43–4, 45, 381, 382

  Grey, Thomas, Baron Grey of Wilton, 267, 280, 401, 414, 420

  Guy, John, 118

  Hacker (Mary Talbot’s servant), 193

  Hale, Serjeant, 275

  Hall, Joseph (bishop of Norwich), 436

  Hammond, Dr, 364

  Hardwick, 59, 64, 111, 119–20, 153–7, 469–71

  Hardwick, Bess of, see Shrewsbury

  Hardwick, James, 64

  Hardwick, John, 59

  Harington, Sir John: on A, 74, 76, 88, 141, 321; on Essex, 133, 141, 163, 215; on marriage possibilities, 158–9; on claims to throne, 169, 185–6, 246; on court, 293, 308

  Harvey, Gabriel, 90

  Hatton, Sir Christopher, 54, 64, 96, 114, 116, 154

  Helwys, Sir Gervase, 422, 438

  Henri IV, king of France, 128, 152, 158, 172, 347

  Henrietta Anne, duchess of Orleans, 463

  Henry VII, king of England, 35, 426, 473

  Henry VIII, king of England: sisters’ descendants, 36, 42; marriages, 44; monasteries, 59; daughters, 125; executions, 386; will, 334; tomb, 445

  Henry, prince of Wales: birth, 146; plot against, 267; at Oxford, 303–5, 331; relationship with A, 306, 312, 338, 353, 366, 368, 411; dress, 309; investiture, 341, 347–9; on Ralegh, 395; death, 411, 413, 463–4; coffin, 473

  Herbert, Philip, earl of Montgomery, fourth earl of Pembroke, 292

  Hertford, see Seymour

  Hilliard, Nicholas, 91, 111, 116, 132

  Hobbes, Thomas, 74

  Hoby, Lady Margaret, 173–4

  Holinshed, Raphael, 103

  Holland, Hugh, 295

  Holles, Sir John, 31

  Howard, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, see Nottingham

  Howard, Lady Frances, 309, 422, 438

  Howard, Lord Thomas, 36, 44–5, 76, 292

  Howard, Lord Thomas, first earl of Suffolk, 254

  Hume, David, 295

  Hume, Sir George, 297

  Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, third earl of, 147

  Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, fifth earl of, 282, 315

  Hurstfield, Joel, 149

  Hutchinson, John, 291

  Hutchinson, Lucy, 291, 349

  James IV, king of Scotland, 36

  James V, king of Scotland, 464

  James VI, king of Scotland, James I, king of England: childhood, 37, 38, 48; claim to English throne, 42, 91, 146, 159, 167–71; plots against, 42; Lennox earldom, 48, 167; Lennox jewels, 52, 109; marriage possibilities, 68; relationship with mother, 80; mother’s death, 98; question of A’s marriage, 98, 109; letter to A, 115–16; correspondence with Essex, 118, 141–2; character, 150; birth of son Henry, 146; Essex’s appeal to, 163; Cecil’s agreement, 167–8, 171, 241; concern about A, 206, 241, 254; accession to English throne, 125, 241–5, 301; progress through England, 255; policies as king of England, 257–8; meeting with A, 259–61; attitude to women, 259, 288,, 295; sexuality, 289, 292; hunting, 270, 293–4; portrait, 260; court, 90, 263, 269–70, 279–80, 281–6, 291–5, 307–11; coronation, 263, 393; conspiracies against, 267–9; Hampton Court conference, 294; Oxford visit, 303; Gunpowder Plot, 305–6; gifts to favourites, 309; expenditure, 309–10; money for A, 327; response to A’s betrothal and marriage, 19, 338–9, 345, 351–3; A’s letters, 355–7; relationship with parliament, 347; orders A’s Durham imprisonment, 359–60, 362, 363–4, 367; A’s appeals to, 367; response to A’s flight, 376–7, 384–5; response to William’s flight, 404, 405; daughter’s wedding, 413–14; porphyria diagnosis, 463; Overbury case, 438; pardon for William, 441; death, 440

  James, William (bishop of Durham), 359, 362, 363, 365, 366

  Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII, 184, 479

  Johns (tailor), 113

  Johnson, Isaac, 448, 450

  Jones, Inigo, 78, 442

  Jonson, Ben: on court, 88, 270, 311; espionage, 137, 457; plays, 283, 327; home, 320

  Kent, Lady Elizabeth Grey (Talbot), countess of: medical recipes, 77–8, 79, 439; marriage, 177, 439; home, 323; in masque, 341; A’s escape, 376; A’s imprisonment, 411

  Kent, Henry Grey, sixth earl of, 255–6, 258, 296, 323, 439

/>   Keyes, Thomas, 382

  Killigrew, Henry, 215

  Kingston, dukes of, 447

  Kinloss, Edward Bruce, Lord, 315

  Kinnersley, Nicholas, 106–7

  Kirton (Kyrton), Edward, 343, 349, 383, 441

  Kirton, Frances, 277

  Knyvet, Thomas, Lord Knyvet of Escrick, 325

  Knyvet family, 448

  Lake, Sir Thomas, 151, 420

  Lancaster, John of Gaunt, duke of, 41

  Lanyer, Amelia, 74–5, 77

  Larkin, Thomas, 424

  Larkin, William, 332, 477

  Leeke, Sir Francis, 239

  Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of: in Tower, 391; relationship with Elizabeth, 50, 134; portrait, 66; Lady Lennox’s death, 49–50, 53, 54; correspondence, 53, 58, 65, 106; relationship with Bess, 65, 96, 131; son’s marriage question, 50, 67; intelligence sources, 137; on Tilbury speech, 106; death, 107, 114

  Lennox, Charles Stuart, sixth earl of: appearance, 47; claim to throne, 42; religion, 129; marriage, 30–2, 44; birth of daughter, 39; death, 47–8; tomb, 50, 474

  Lennox, Elizabeth Stuart (Cavendish), countess of: marriage, 30–2, 44, 49; dowry, 49, 63; birth of daughter, 39; husband’s death, 47–8; pension, 52; relationship with mother, 53; death, 53–5, 225

  Lennox, Esmé, Lord D’Aubigny, first duke of, 48, 109

  Lennox, Ludovic Stuart, second duke of, 109, 284, 297, 320

  Lennox, Lady Margaret, countess of: ancestry, 35–6, 42, 144; Howard betrothal, 36, 292; in Tower, 36, 37, 38, 391; poetry, 76–7; religion, 129; Lennox marriage, 36, 71; son Darnley’s marriage, 37; relationship with Mary, 38; son Charles’s marriage, 30–1, 34; granddaughter A’s birth, 39; granddaughter’s inheritance, 48; finances, 49, 50; death, 49–50, 225; tomb, 50, 474

  Lennox, Matthew Stuart, fourth earl of, 36–7, 45, 391

  Lilburne, John, 360–1

  Lincoln, Theophilus Clinton, fourth earl of, 447–8

  Lockey, Rowland, 116

  Lodge, Edmund, 58

  Louis XII, king of France, 43

  Makin, Bathsua, 77

  Manners, John, 239

  Manningham, John, 172, 244, 254

  Margaret Tudor, queen of Scotland, 36, 42, 463

  Marguerite de Valois, 152

  Markham, Griffin, 267, 273, 280

  Markham, William, 20, 267, 383

  Markham family, 126

  Marlowe, Christopher, 131, 455–461

  Mary I, queen of England, 36, 37, 59, 89, 210

  Mary, queen of Scots: inheritance, 36; marriage possibilities, 68; marriage to Darnley, 32, 37, 44, 71, 134, 177, 391; portrait, 33; religion, 129; escape plans, 22; imprisonment in England, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 60–1, 80–2; relationship with Bess, 35, 65–7, 68; embroidery, 67, 80, 173, 368, 470, 475–6; relationship with Lady Lennox, 39; claim to English throne, 42; jewels, 52; relationship with Shrewsbury, 65–7, 127; health, 213, 463; wills, 48, 142; relationship with son, 48, 81, 142; relationship with A, 67, 68, 80–2, 83, 475; letters intercepted, 248; execution, 582–3, 92, 225, 255–6; tomb, 472, 473–4

  Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII (daughter of Henry VII), 42–3, 101, 184, 464

  Massinger, Philip, 308

  Mathew, David, 452

  Matthias, duke, 158, 190

  Maurice, prince, 444

  Maurice of Nassau, count, 301

  Melwarde, Mathias, 368

  Mendoza, Spanish ambassador, 98

  Mildmay, Sir Walter, 72

  Monson, Sir William, 23, 24, 25, 376, 378–80

  Montague, chief justice, 398

  More, Sir John: on A’s flight, 20, 24, 370, 377, 384; on William’s escape, 373, 377, 381, 384, 404; on court response to A’s marriage, 384, 411; on Mary Talbot, 387

  Morley, Thomas, 130

  Morley (Catholic spy), 130–1

  Morley (tutor), 129–31, 136–7, 138, 455–61

  Moryson, Fynes, 317

  Moundford, Dr: A’s pregnancy question, 353; on A’s health, 19, 363; on James, 367; arrest, 383; interrogation, 23; on A’s allegations, 415; A’s death, 435

  Murray, Sir David, 303

  Nenner, Howard, 125

  Nevers, duke of, 172

  Neville, Sir Henry, 257

  Neville, Thomas, 254

  Newcastle, see Cavendish

  Newdigate, Anne, 177, 310

  Newton, Adam, 303

  Nicholl, Charles, 459–60, 461

  Nicholls, Mark, 276

  Norden, John, 349

  Norfolk, Thomas Howard, fourth duke of, 32, 386

  Norrington, Ruth, 465–6

  Northampton, Helena, marchioness of, 261, 479

  Northampton, Henry Howard, earl of, 257, 386–7, 422–3, 429–30, 438

  Northumberland, Dorothy (Devereux), duchess of, 171

  Northumberland, Henry Percy, eighth earl of, 67

  Northumberland, Henry Percy, ninth earl of: marriage rumours, 109, 461; on Essex, 134; relationship with James, 171, 257, 306, 460–1; in Tower, 306, 395, 401

  Nottingham, Catherine, countess of, 206, 219

  Nottingham, Charles Howard, earl of (Lord Howard of Effingham), 23, 114, 273, 275, 311, 384

  Nottingham, Margaret, countess of, 311–12

  Oliver, Isaac, 320, 476

  Overbury, Sir Thomas, 292, 422, 431–2, 435, 438

  Overton, William, bishop of Coventry, 65

  Owen, John, 295

  Owen, Richard, 231, 232

  Oxford, Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of, 90

  Paget, Thomas Paget, third baron, 67

  Palmer, Dr, 415, 417, 424

  Parma, Alessandro Farnese, duke of, 98, 168

  Parma, Rainutio Farnese, duke of, 98, 102, 105, 111, 118, 170–1

  Parry, Sir Thomas, 346, 349, 363, 438

  Parsons, Robert, 142, 168, 247

  Pembroke, Lady Mary Herbert (Talbot), 77, 79, 102, 302, 319, 439

  Pembroke, William Herbert, third earl of, 77, 272, 302, 319

  Percy, Thomas, 306

  Pette, Phineas, 376

  Philip II, king of Spain, 98, 142, 151, 158

  Philip III, king of Spain, 171, 268

  Pierrepont, Bessie, 325

  Pierrepont, Frances (Cavendish), 188, 243–4, 447

  Platter, Thomas, 113

  Primrose, Duncan, 435

  Proby, Peter, 137

  Pusey, Timothy, 194

  Ralegh, Elizabeth (Throckmorton), Lady, 117, 118, 344, 394, 397

  Ralegh, Sir Walter: dress, 88; on court life, 90; meeting with A, 96, 97; relationship with Essex, 105, 151, 268; marriage, 117, 344; religious beliefs, 128; Cadiz expedition, 151; Marlowe connection, 460–1; treatment by James, 257; Main Plot, 267–8, 276, 280; trial, 97, 273–5; in Tower, 306, 394–5, 396, 401, 411, 433, 472; execution, 440

  Ramsey (jester), 113

  Reeves, Edward, 343, 350, 383, 423, 424

  Rich, Lady Penelope (Devereux), 141, 166, 290, 430

  Rivers, Antony, 219, 247

  Rodney, Edward, 340, 343, 372, 374–5

  Rogers, Sir Richard, 101

  Rowlston (Catholic conspirator), 124

  Rubens, Peter Paul, 439

  Rufford Abbey, 29–32, 323

  Rupert of the Rhine, prince, 473

  Ruthven, Patrick, 401–2, 423–4

  St Loe, Sir William, 60

  St Paul, Sir George, 323

  Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 448

  Sampson, Agnes, 115

  Savill, Lady Mary, 82

  Selden, John, 439

  Semple, William, 124

  Seton, Mary, 370

  Seymour, Arbella, 336, 445, 479

  Seymour, Lady Catherine (Grey), countess of Hertford: birth, 43; sister’s execution, 188; marriage, 43, 45, 144, 184, 333–4, 335, 343, 354, 358; in Tower, 43, 45, 381–2, 391; children, 43–4, 101, 381–2; relationship with Elizabeth, 105, 122; death, 184; grandson Edward’s marriage, 183–4; tomb, 479

  Seymour, Edward (the lord protector), earl of Hertford and duke of Somerset, 43, 184


  Seymour, Edward (son of the above), earl of Hertford: betrothal, 358; marriage, 43, 144, 184, 333–4, 343, 375; imprisonment, 43, 144, 184, 391; children, 43, 101, 382; son’s marriage, 43, 101, 344; grandson Edward’s marriage, 159, 184, 185; A’s message to, 187, 188–9, 195; rumours of son’s rising, 244; grandson William’s escape, 375–6, 385, 406–7; grandson’s allowance, 405; death, 441; tomb, 479

  Seymour, Edward (son of the above), Lord Beauchamp: birth, 43, 382; legitimacy, 44, 101, 144, 333–4, 343; marriage, 45, 101, 344; in Tower, 144; marriage rumours, 185, 243; son Edward’s marriage, 159, 184; claim to throne, 168, 184, 243–5; rumours of armed rising, 243–5; death, 245, 411, 441

  Seymour, Edward (son of the above): marriage question, 159, 183–5, 188, 333–4, 358; brother’s marriage, 331, 334; death, 441

  Seymour, Frances (Howard), countess of Hertford, 332, 385

  Seymour, Frances (Devereux), countess of Hertford, 406, 441, 479

  Seymour, Francis, 357, 374–6, 445

  Seymour, Henry, Lord Beauchamp, 445

  Seymour, John, fourth duke of Somerset, 441

  Seymour, Thomas (brother of lord protector), 184

  Seymour, Thomas (son of Edward, earl of Hertford), 168, 185, 382

  Seymour, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, 44, 209–10, 335

  Seymour, William, earl of Hertford and duke of Somerset: appearance, 336, 406, 478; character, 334, 336; religion, 128, 406–6, 426, 443; at Oxford, 303, 331; first meeting with A, 331; betrothal, 332, 337–8, 355; marriage plans, 340; marriage, 18, 183, 343–5; in Tower, 18, 20, 346, 359, 371; 394; interrogation, 347; on A’s pregnancy, 353; A’s letter to, 357–8; finances, 361, 405, 426; on Mary Talbot, 368; escape from Tower, 23, 369, 371–6, 472; in France, 379; letters from father, 385; life abroad, 403–7, 426; gift from A, 83, 475; rumours of death, 428–9; pardon, 441; second marriage, 336, 441; career, 441–6; son’s imprisonment, 371, 445; death, 446

  Seymour family, 44, 101, 144, 184–5, 478–9

  Shakespeare, William, 284, 385, 451

  Sheffield, Douglas, Lady, 114

  Sherland, Bridget, 192, 194

  Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of (Bess of Hardwick): ancestry, 59; character, 58; marriages, 35, 59–60, 63, 177, 343; correspondence, 27, 87, 194, 230; religion, 126, 128–9; sorcery against, 392; relationship with Mary, 35, 65–67; finances, 49, 61–3, 64, 116–17, 299, 300; embroidery, 67, 80, 470, 475; daughter’s marriage, 30–1, 34, 38, 39; daughter’s death, 53–4; relationship with Shrewsbury, 56, 58, 60–1, 61–7, 82, 83, 94–5, 107; influential friends, 64–5, 131; portraits, 58; books, 75; relationship with A, 52–3, 53–6, 68–9, 72–3, 75, 89, 102, 107–8, 122–3, 145–6, 175–6, 192, 193–5, 196, 211–12, 216–17, 299–300; Shrewsbury’s death, 107–8; journey south, 111–12; at court, 113–18; building works, 120, 153–5; entertainments, 122; Morley’s employment, 129–30, 457, 459; servants’ livery, 154; old age, 146, 175; will, 175–6, 187, 241; Brounker’s visit, 182, 190, 191, 192, 194–5; letters to queen, 194, 197; A’s letters, 199–200, 201–2; Cecil’s instructions, 247; A’s attempted escape, 231–3; illness, 239; last illness and death, 313–14; tomb, 472

 

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