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at Tutbury Castle, 239, 247 Stuart, Matthew, earl of Lennox, 217 Stuart line of succession, 208 Stubbs, John, 306-7, 311, 313 succession:
attempts to change, 80-84, 101 > 104-6, 114-16, 120, 128, 150, 153-55, 204, 209, 211-12,
235-37, 239 candidates in, 17, 34, 59, 97, 103-4, 157-58, 160, 161, 168, 170, 200, 202-3, 207^, 217, 360-61 Catherine Grey's claim to, 203-4,
208 Elizabeth urged to marry for, 183,
212-13, 242, 253-56 Henry Stuart's claim to, 217 James's claim to, 360-61, 363 Mary Stuart's claim to, 200, 202-3,
208 Parliament's regulation of, 34, 103,
168 religious issues in, 100-104, 110 > 161, 170, 203, 208-9, 217, 235-38, 259 Stuart line of, 208 Suffolk line of, 208 York line of, 208 Suffolk, Catherine Bertie, duchess of,
168 Suffolk, Charles Brandon, duke of, 16,
18, 208 Suffolk, Mary, duchess of, 208 Suffolk line of succession, 208 Sussex, earl of, 123-26, 314 conspiracy of, 243-44 Dudley opposed by, 257, 259, 299 as military commander, 236, 238, 246-49 Swan, 343
sweating sickness, epidemics of, 15, 98 Sweden, English opinions of, 189
Tadcaster, rebellion in, 246 Talbot, Elizabeth, countess of
Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick),
262, 360 Elizabeth criticized bv, 262, 264,
267
Talbot, Francis, 176 Talbot, George, 6th earl of
Shrewsbury, 176, 360 Talbot, Mary, 262, 264 Tamworth (Dudley's servant), 209 taxation, Parliamentary regulation of,
253, 256 Terling, Lavinia, 226 theater, see plays and pageants Theobalds, 289, 292-93 Thomas, William, 130 Throckmorton, Nicholas, 120, 128,
130, 213-14 Thucydides, 130 Tilbury:
Elizabeth's speech at, 374-75 military camp at, 371-75 tilting, 274, 280-81, 324, 404 Tomio (Bedingfield's servant), 138 Tower of London, 11, 29, 130 Elizabeth's imprisonment in,
122-32 travel, hazards of, 285, 288 Tudor, Margaret, 208, 217 Tutbury Castle, 239, 247 typhus, epidemic of, 376 Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, earl of,
381-82, 396, 404, 405 Tyrwhitt, Elizabeth, 78-79, 81, 91 Tyrwhitt, Robert, 81, 86^1
Yanderplasse, Dinghen, 229 Vergil, 56
vermin, at Hampton Court, 224 Yerney, Francis, 135, 154 virginity, importance of, 71-72 Yives, Juan Luis, 71-72 volta (dance), 349
waiting women: duties of, 345-47 gossip of, 261-64, 267, 350 Walsingham, Francis, 311-14, 322, 324-26, 333, 340, 347, 357, 385-86, 394 Alencon described by, 297^8 Alencon opposed by, 299, 312, 314,
325 as council member, 299, 311-12,
3H, 361 death of, 382 illness of, 363 as Puritan, 299, 311-12
Warton, Thomas, 155
Warwick, Ambrose Dudlev, earl of,
128, 263, 281 waymakers, 285-86, 290 weaving industry, 278 weddings:
rustic, 281
traditional, 326^27 Wentworth, Peter, 310 Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl of:
as Elizabeth's suitor, 160
rebellion of, 236-37, 239, 244-50 wet nurses, 21-22, 25 Whitehall Palace, 381-82
banqueting house at, 321-22 White Ladies, The (Worcester town
mansion), 278-79 Whitney, John, 77 Wightman (Thomas Seymour's
servant), 66 Williams of Thame, Lord, 132 Willoughby, Lady, 205 Wiltshire, riots in, 95 Winchester, W'illiam Paulet, marquess
of, 25-26, 123-26, 192 Windsor Castle, 237 witchcraft, 354, 357 Woburn Abbey, 291 Wolsev, Thomas, Cardinal, 222, 223,
386 women:
as courtiers, 345-47, 350
education of, 46-47
as "great ladies," 345-47, 350
Knox on, 176
as maids of honor, 345-46, 350
as rulers, 176, 212, 241, 256, 275, 388
Tudor views on, 46, 77, 176
waiting, 261-64, 2 &7> 345 _ 47> 35° Woodstock:
architecture of, 132-33
Elizabeth's imprisonment at, 132-41, 283
Elizabeth's progress to, 282-83 Wooton, Sir Henry, 398 Worcester, Elizabeth's progress to,
277-79 Wriothesley, Thomas, 42 Wyatt, Thomas, 114, 115-16, 121,
125, 128, 130-31 Wytham, Elizabeth's progress to, 293
York, Accession Day in, 273 Young (chaplain to Elizabeth), 139
York line of succession, 208 Ypres, Spanish capture of, 344 Yorkshire, religious rebellion in,
95 Zeeland, rebellion in, 343-44
About the Author
A Ph.D. in medieval history from Columbia University led Carolly Erickson to six years as a college professor, then to a career as a full-time writer. Since 1968 she has written extensively for both scholarly and popular audiences. The First Elizabeth, her sixth book, follows two other biographies of the Tudor dynasty: Bloody Mary, a life of Mary Tudor, and Great Harry on Henry VIII, both of which have achieved both exceptional critical acclaim and a wide popular readership. Ms. Erickson lives in Berkeley, California, with her teenage son Hal.
as much pleasure as profit: now Carolly Erickson enters the lists. She has written an admirable biography, graphic, judicious, carefully researched, skillfully constructed and full of those telling details that are an essential ingredient of the narrator's art."
A Ph.D. in medieval history from Columbia University led Carolly Erickson to six years as a college professor, then to a career as a full-time writer. Since 1970 she has written extensively for both scholarly and popular audiences, and she is the author of five previous books. Three recent books, The Medieval Vision, Bloody Mary, a biography of Mary Tudor, and Great Harry, a biography of Henry VIII, have achieved both critical acclaim and a wide popular readership. M ■.. rickson lives in Berkelev, California.
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