by Derek Wilson
Elizabeth I Collected Works (ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose), University of Chicago Press, 2000
The more important publicly available archive collections are:
British Library: Add. MSS 5752–5754, 30156, 33531, 33594, 35841; Egerton MSS 1693–1694, Cotton MSS, corresp. and papers, Harley MSS, corresp. and papers, expense account kept as ambassador to the Low Countries, M 488, letters to William Ashby, Egerton MS 2598, letters to Edward Wotton, Add. MS 32657, Yelverton MSS
Walsingham letter-book, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, letters and papers
Lincolnshire Archive Office, Correspondence with Lord Willoughby
National Archive, State Papers 12, 15, 46, 52, 70, PROB 11/75 PCC 33 DRURY
National Library of Scotland, correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots
Sheffield Archive Office – Wentworth Woodhouse MSS
The following list of classic books and articles and more recent scholarship cannot possibly be exhaustive but does cover most valuable contributions on specific issues or Elizabethan background.
Adams, S.L., ‘Eliza Enthroned? The Court and its Polities’, in Haigh (ed.), Reign of Elizabeth I, pp.55–77
Allen, J.W., A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1964)
Andrews, K.R., Elizabethan Privateering: English Privateering during the Spanish War, 1585–1603 (Cambridge, 1964)
Archer, J.M., Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993)
Aveling, J.C.H., The Handle and the Axe: The Catholic Recusants in England from Reformation to Emancipation (1976)
Axton, M., The Queens’ Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession (1977)
Bartlett, K.R., ‘The English Exile Community in Italy and the Political Opposition to Queen Mary I’, Albion, 13 (1981)
Bartlett, K.R., ‘The Role of the Marian Exiles’, in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The House of Commons, 1558–1603, I, app. xi
Basing, P., ‘Robert Beale and the Queen of Scots’, British Library Journal, 20 (1994), 65–82
Baumgartner, F.J., Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought of the French Catholic League (Geneva, 1975)
Bellamy, J., The Tudor Law of Treason (Toronto, 1979)
Berry, L.E., (ed,), John Stubbs’ Gaping Gulf, Folger Documents Series (Virginia, 1968)
Bossy J., Under the Molehill: an Elizabethan Spy Story (2001)
Bossy, J., Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (1991)
Camden, W., The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (ed. W.T. MacCaffrey, Chicago, 1970)
Caraman, P., The Other Face, Catholic Life under Elizabeth I (1960)
Clegg, C.B., Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (1997)
Cliffe, J.T., The Puritan Gentry (1984)
Cole, M.H., The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony (Amherst, Mass., 1999)
Collinson, P., ‘De republica Anglorum, or, History with the politics put back’, in P. Collinson, Elizabethan Essays (1994)
Collinson, P., ‘The Elizabethan Church and the New Religion’, in Haigh (ed.), Reign of Elizabeth I, pp.169–94
Collinson, P., ‘The monarchical republic of Queen Elizabeth I’, The Tudor monarchy, ed. J.A. Guy (1997), 110–34
Collinson, P., Archbishop Grindal, 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church (1980)
Collinson, P., Elizabethan Essays (1994)
Collinson, P., Elizabethans (2003)
Collinson, P., Godly People (1983)
Collinson, P., Godly Rule: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism (1983)
Collinson, P., The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967)
Collinson, P., The English Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots (Sheffield, 1987)
Collinson, P., The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559–1625 (Oxford, 1982)
Davies, C.S.L., Peace, Print and Protestantism: 1450–1558 (1977)
Donaldson, G., All the Queen’s Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart’s Scotland (1983)
Donaldson, G., The Scottish Reformation (Cambridge, 1960)
Doran, S., ‘Revenge her Foul and most Unnatural Murder? The Impact of Mary Stewart’s Execution on Anglo-Scottish Relations’, Historical Association, 85, 2000
Doran, S., Monarchy and Matrimony: the Courtships of Elizabeth I (1996)
Edwards, E., Robert Persons: The Biography of an Elizabethan Jesuit (St Louis, 1995)
Elton, G.R., England under the Tudors, (1974)
Elton, G.R., Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government (3 vols, Cambridge, 1974–83)
Elton, G.R., The Parliament of England 1559–1581 (Cambridge, 1986)
Elton, G.R., The Parliament of England, 1559–1581 (Cambridge, 1986)
Elton, G.R., The Tudor Constitution (Cambridge 1960, 2nd edn 1982)
Elton, G.R., The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary (Cambridge, 1965)
Evans, F.M.G., The Principal Secretary of State: A survey of the Office from 1558 to 1680 (1923)
Foxe, J., The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, ed. G. Townsend (8 vols, 1843–9)
Garrett, C.H., The Marian Exiles: A study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism (1938)
Gee, H., and Hardy, W.J., (eds.), Documents Illustrative of English Church History (1910)
Graves, M., ‘Thomas Norton, the Parliament Man: An Elizabethan MP’, Historical Journal, 23, 1, 1980
Graves, M., Thomas Norton, The Parliament Man (Oxford, 1994)
Grell, O., Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England (Aldershot, 1996)
Guy, J., My Heart is my Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (2004)
Guy, J., Tudor England (Oxford, 1990)
Haigh, C., (ed.), The Reign of Elizabeth I (1984)
Haller, W., (ed.), Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation (1963)
Haugaard, W.P., Elizabeth and the English Reformation: The Struggle for a Stable Settlement of Religion (Cambridge, 1970)
Haynes, A., The Elizabethan Secret Services (Stroud, 2000)
Hoak, D., (ed.), Tudor Political Culture (Cambridge, 1995)
Holmes, P.J., Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics (Cambridge, 1982)
Holt, M., The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion (1986)
Holt, M.P., The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629 (Cambridge, 1995)
Israel, J.I., The Dutch Republic – its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (Oxford, 1995)
James, M., Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986)
Jensen, D., Diplomacy and Dogmatism: Bernardino de Mendoza and the French Catholic League (1964)
Johnson, P., Elizabeth I: A Study in Power and Intellect (1974)
Kingdon, R., Myths About the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacres 1572–76 (Cambridge, Mass., 1988)
Lake, P.G., ‘Calvinism and the English Church, 1570–1635’, Past and Present, no.114 (1987)
Lake, P.G., Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church (Cambridge, 1982)
Leimon, M. and Parker, G., ‘Treason and Plot in Elizabethan diplomacy: the “Fame of Sir Edward Stafford” Reconsidered’. EngHR, 111 (1996)
Loades, D.M., England’s Maritime Empire – Seapower, Commerce and Policy 1490–1690 (2000)
Loades, D.M., Politics and the Nation, 1450–1660 (1974)
Loades, D.M., The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government, and Religion in England 1553–1558 (1979)
Loades, D.M., The Tudor Court (1986)
MacCaffrey, W.T., Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588–1603 (1992)
MacCaffrey, W.T., Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572–1588 (Princeton, NJ, 1981)
MacCaffrey, W.T., The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558–1572 (1968)
Manning, R.B., ‘The Crisis of Episcopal Authority during the Reign of Elizabeth I’, Journ
al of British Studies, 11 (1971)
McCullough, D.E., Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (Cambridge, 1998)
McDermott, J., England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel (New Haven, 2005)
McGrath, P., Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I (1967)
Neale, J.E., Elizabeth I and her Parliaments (2 vols, 1969)
Neale, J.E., The Elizabethan House of Commons (1963)
Nolan, J.S., Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World (Exeter, 1997)
Parker, G., ‘The Place of Tudor England in the Messianic Vision of Philip II of Spain’, Transaction of the Royal Historical Society 2002
Parker, G., Spain and the Netherlands, 1559–1659 (1979)
Parker, G., The Dutch Revolt (1977)
Parmalee, L.F., Good Newes from Fraunce: French Anti-League Propaganda in late Elizabethan England (Rochester 1996)
Parry, J.H., The Spanish Seaborne Empire (1966)
Pulman, M.B., The Elizabethan Privy Council in the 1570s (Berkeley, Ca; 1971)
Read, C., Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (1960)
Read, C., Mr Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth (1955)
Seaver, P.S., The Puritan Lectureships: The Politics of Religious Dissent, 1560–1662 (Stanford, Ca., 1970)
Simon, J., Education and Society in Tudor England (Cambridge, 1966)
Smith, A.G.R., The Government of Elizabethan England (1967)
Smith, L.B., Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia (1986)
Soman, A., (ed.), The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s: Reappraisals and Documents (The Hague, 1974)
Somerset, A., Elizabeth I (1991)
Stewart, Alan, Philip Sidney: A Double Life (2000)
Stow, J., A Survey of London (ed. C.L. Kingsford), 2 vols (Oxford, 1908)
Sutherland, N.M., ‘The Marian Exiles and the Establishment of the Elizabethan Regime’, Archiv für Reformationgeschichte, 78, 1987
Trimble, W.R., The Catholic Laity in Elizabethan England (1964)
Wernham, R.B., Before the Armada: The Emergence of the English Nation, 1485–1588 (New York, 1972)
Wernham, R.B., The Making of English Foreign Policy, 1558–1603 (Berkley, Ca, 1980)
Wilson, C., Queen Elizabeth I and the Revolt of the Netherlands (1970)
Wilson, D., Sweet Robin: A Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1553–1588 (1997)
Wilson, D., Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys (2005)
Worden, B., The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and Elizabethan Politics (1996)
Yates, F., Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (1975)
Yates, F., The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1979)
INDEX
A Discourse touching the pretended Match between the Duke of Norfolk and the Queen of Scots 61, 62–3, 65–6
A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur 244
‘A Plot for intelligence out of Spain’ 231
Act of Uniformity 104
Admonition to the Parliament 64
Albigensian Crusade 21
Allen, William 105, 130, 132, 183, 184, 208, 234
Alva, Duke of (Fernando Alvarez de Toledo) 55–6, 68, 71–2, 80, 82, 124
Anderson, Edmund 160
Angus, Earl of 166
Anjou see Francis, duc d’Anjou; Henri, duc d’Anjou and Henry III of France
Answer to a little book that was published against the marriage of the Duke of Norfolk and the Scottish Queen 63–5
Arcadia 243–4
Arran, Earl of 170, 206–7
Arundel, Charles 185, 186–7
Arundel, Earl of 61, 74, 175, 184, 208
Ascham, Roger 11
Aylmer, John (Bishop of London) 133
Babington, Anthony 209–12 see also conspiracies
Bacon, Sir Nicholas 128, 178
Bailley, Charles 71
Bale, John (Bishop of Ossory) 25, 26–7
Ballard, John 208, 210, 222
Barker, Christopher (printer) 109
Barlow, William (Bishop of Chichester) 34
Bartlett, John 64
Battle of Alcazar 123
Bawde, John 7
Beale, Robert 95–102, 159, 164, 170, 225, 227, 239
Beaton, James 164
Bible 112
English translation of 11
Bill, Dr William 34
Boleyn, Anne 7, 8–9, 10, 11
Boleyn, Mary 8–9
Boleyn, Sir Thomas 8–9
Bond of Association 189–91, 247–8
Book of Martyrs (Acts and Monuments of the Christian Religion) 26, 49, 64, 110
Bothwell, Earl of (James Hepburn) 52 see also Mary Queen of Scots/Mary Stuart
Bowes, Robert 166, 167
Bright, Timothy 80
Bromley, Sir Thomas 159, 176
Bruno, Giordano 168–9, 176
Bryan, Sir Francis 8, 9, 13
Bucer, Martin 15, 32
Buckhurst, Lord 204
Bullinger, Heinrich 25, 33, 53, 106
Burghley, Baron see Cecil, William
Butts, William (royal physician to Henry VIII) 12
Cadiz raid 234–5 see also Drake, Francis
Calais 48
Calvin, John 17, 25, 30, 109, 153, 241
Calvinism/Calvinists 28, 42, 46, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 63, 73, 75, 90, 108, 109, 247
Campion, Edmund 141, 159–60, 163, 184
Cambridge 12, 13–16
Carey, Sir John 8, 9, 10
Carey, Sir Robert 229
Carisbrooke Castle 40–1 see also Horsey, Edward
Carleill, Christopher 198
Cartwright, Thomas 192
Cashel, Archbishop of 122
Casimir, John 235
Castelnau 175, 176, 185, 206, 209
Catherine of Aragon 8, 10
Catholic League 116, 118, 163, 189, 209
Catholicism ix, xi, xii, 3, 34, 49, 62, 66, 67, 79, 100, 103–7, 115, 120, 122, 129–30, 152–7, 161, 163, 172, 179–80, 183, 184, 188, 195, 206–7, 211, 228, 230, 233, 238, 249–50
Cecil, Robert 252
Cecil, William 15, 24, 33, 34, 35–9, 41–2, 52, 57–9, 61–3, 68–72, 74–5, 78, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 100, 113, 125, 126, 132, 44, 145, 166, 170, 180, 183, 185, 189, 191, 193, 194, 196, 198, 199–201, 204, 213–14, 217–18, 221, 225, 226, 239, 243, 246, 251
Champagny, Sieur de 86–7
Charles, Archduke of Austria 63
Charles V of France 42
Charles V of Spain 21–2
Charles IX of France 46, 77, 78–9, 82, 83, 103, 117, 124, 125
Châteauneuf 220–1
Cheke, John 15, 25, 31
Christopherson, Bishop (of Chichester) 34
church in England 102–3, 106, 153, 192–3 see also Protestantism
reform of 157–8, 192–5
Cobham, Lord 204
Coligny 77, 79
Collinson, Professor 93, 97
Commonplaces of Christian Religion 73
conspiracies 58, 62, 66–7, 69–70, 142–3, 172–5, 180–81, 183, 186, 188–9, 192, 199, 203, 208–9, 220–1, 238 see also Ridolfi, Roberto
Babington plot 179, 207, 209–12, 213
‘Enterprise of England’ 68, 71–3, 76, 104, 117, 122, 124, 169, 176, 203, 227, 236
Throckmorton plot 172–5, 177, 186, 209
Consularius of the English Nation 31
Cooke, Sir Anthony 33, 36
Cooke, William 24
Council, the 92, 95–8, 100, 104, 120–1, 126, 128, 149, 155–6, 175, 176, 190–1, 194, 196, 225, 226, 248
Council of the North 97
Council of Trent ix, 44, 45, 80
Counter-Reformation 17–18, 76, 85, 105
Court of Augmentations 13
Courtenay, Edward (Earl of Devon) 30
Cox, Bishop of Ely 106–7
Cox, Richard 25, 28
Cranmer, Thomas (Archbishop of Canterbury) 1
0, 11, 14–15, 21, 25, 28, 66
Cranmerian liturgy 36
Crichton, William 163, 165, 180, 181, 182–3, 184
Croft, Sir James 199, 204, 206, 233
Cromwell, Thomas 7, 10, 11, 92
Crowley, Robert 64–5
d’Aubigny see Esmé Stuart, Seigneur d’Aubigny
Darnley, Lord (Henry Stuart) 51–2, 57, 87
Davison, William 114, 167, 171, 221, 223–7
Day, John 24, 66
de Castlenau, Michel 168–9
de Feckenham, John 132
de Guise, Charles (Cardinal of Lorraine) 49
de Guise, duc 79, 175, 187
de l’Aubespine, Claude 209
de Medici, Catherine 46–7, 48, 50, 75, 77, 78–9, 82, 103, 117–18, 125, 126, 148–9, 209
de Medici, Francis, duc d’Alençon 75 see also Francis, duc d’Anjou
de Medici, Henri, duc d’Anjou 75, 76, 98, 100, 117 see also Henri III of France
de Mendoza, Bernardino 126
de Silva, Guzman (Spanish ambassador) 88
de Spes, Guerau 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 78, 122
de Valois, Margaret 79
Denny, Anthony 8–9, 11–12, 13–14
Denny, Sir Edmund 8
Denny family 7–9, 24–5
des Trappes, Leonard 220–1
Desmond Rebellions 122, 123, 153
Diet of Worms 9
Digges, Thomas 191, 242
Discovery of a Gaping Gulf 130–1, 141, 244
Dom Antonio of Avis 149–50, 230
Don John of Austria 117, 122, 123, 127, 118–19, 134, 137–8
Drake, Francis x, 85, 117, 143–5, 149–50, 163, 197, 231–2, 234–5, 241
Dudley, Ambrose (Earl of Warwick) 48–9, 65, 90
Dudley, John (Earl of Warwick) 12, 13
Dudley, Robert (Earl of Leicester) 40, 48, 51, 59, 63, 65, 68–9, 84, 90, 92–4, 100, 108, 128, 133, 135–6, 140, 148, 149, 151, 159, 161, 166, 171, 178, 183, 185–6, 189, 194, 199–201, 204–5, 211, 212, 214, 216–17, 224, 225, 226, 234, 235–6, 237, 239, 245, 246, 248–9, 251
Dudley, Sir Henry 23
Earl Grey de Wilton 123
Edward IV 88
Edward VI 13, 18, 19, 29, 33, 247
Elizabeth I (and) ix–x, xii, 3, 10, 12, 19, 29–30, 35–7, 39, 43, 47–8, 59, 66–7, 68, 74, 85–100, 104–5, 106, 108, 110–16, 120, 123–8, 130–1, 143–53, 155–7, 160, 163–5, 169–70, 176–7, 180, 183–4, 186, 188–92, 193–8, 201, 204–5, 213–14, 218–30, 233, 235, 237–9, 242–3, 246–52
criticism 99, 110–11
Drake’s circumnavigation voyage 145