by John Cooper
Aldermanbury, City of London. Walsingham’s parents William and Joyce were both buried in the church of St Mary Aldermanbury.
Edward VI in front of Hunsdon in Hertfordshire (c.1546), the royal manor where Walsingham’s step-father Sir John Carey was bailiff.
The south porch of King’s College chapel, Cambridge University (c.1800). Walsingham’s studies at King’s profoundly influenced his future outlook and career.
Portrait traditionally thought to be of Dame Ursula (d.1602), Walsingham’s second wife. Ursula witnessed the St Bartholomew’s massacre alongside her husband.
Provisionally identified as Barn Elms, the house on the Thames where the Walsinghams received the Queen on progress.
Map of sixteenth-century Paris. The Huguenot district of Saint Marceau, where Walsingham lived during his time as ambassador, appears at the top.
Allegory of the Tudor Succession, attrib. Lucas de Heere, 1572, presented to Walsingham by Queen Elizabeth to mark the signing of the treaty of Blois.
Elizabeth I: Sieve Portrait, Quentin Metsys the younger, 1583. The globe behind the Queen alludes to England’s aspiring empire at sea.
Relic of the skull of St Cuthbert Mayne, the first priest of the English Catholic mission to be executed for his faith.
Cipher alphabet with which Anthony Babington communicated with the Queen of Scots.
Drawing of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay, 8 February 1587.
Title-page of General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation, John Dee, 1577. Elizabeth I sails the ship of state towards the new world.
Image of Ireland, John Derricke, 1581. ‘An armed company of the kerne attack and burn a farmhouse’.
Captain Christopher Carleill by Robert Boissard (engraver) after unknown artist, c.1593. Lacking a son of his own, Walsingham remained close to his step-son from his first marriage.
Indian Woman and Young Girl, John White, 1585–6. The girl holds an Elizabethan doll traded with the English.
The Spanish Fleet off the Coast of Cornwall on 29 July 1588, 1590. Lord Henry Seymour credited Walsingham with fighting Spain ‘more with your pen than many have in our English navy’.
About the Author
John Cooper studied and taught history at Oxford before moving to the University of York. His first book explored the power of propaganda in Tudor England, and he co-edited the catalogue of the ‘Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill’ exhibition at the Tower of London. He is currently working on the sixteenth-century Palace of Westminster.
John regularly gives public lectures on the Tudors and writes for the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in North Yorkshire with his wife, the author Suzanne Fagence Cooper, and their two daughters.
By the Same Author
HENRY VIII: ARMS AND THE MAN
(co-edited with Graeme Rimmer and Thom Richardson)
PROPAGANDA AND THE TUDOR STATE
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