by Alison Weir
79. It is inscribed as Sir William St. Loe, but the sitter is plainly Lennox. His appearance matches the likeness in the Darnley Memorial, having the same balding head and pale red beard.
80. CSPD Elizabeth 44, 38
81. CSPF 8, 1902
82. CSPF 8, 1875
83. CSPD Elizabeth 46, 11; Strickland LQS 2, 115. Norrington, 30, places this letter in January 1564.
84. Stedall SC, 44
85. CSP Murdin, 764; Macauley, 195
86. Camden, 91; Strickland LQS 2, 115; Marshall QMW, 119; Borman, 286
87. It survives in draft, partly in Lennox’s hand, as CUL Oo.vii.47; the text is printed as an appendix in Mahon.
88. Macauley, 196
89. NAS GD 406/1, 26
90. Warden of the Middle Marches.
91. CSP Scotland 2, 677
92. Cecil Papers 1, 1186; Lettres 2, 102–3, 106
93. CSP Scotland 2, 771
94. CUL DdIII, ff.17–18; Macauley, 200. There was to be a third version, too, A Remembrance after what sort the late King of Scots, son to me, the Earl of Lennox, was used by the Queen his wife (CUL Oo. vii.47, ff.30–1), a far more concise document than its predecessors, which presents a much better case.
95. Relations Politiques de la France et de l’Espagne avec l’Ecosse au XVIieme Siecle 2, 390–91
96. CSP Scotland 2, 832
97. CSP Scotland 2, 850
98. CSP Simancas 2, 52
99. CSPF 8, 1812
100. CSP Scotland 2, 894
101. CSP Scotland 2, 906
102. John Phillips
18. “Business Most Vile”
1. CSPF 9, 68
2. Ashdown RT, 149; Strickland LQS 2, 116
3. Perry WP, 149–50
4. Cecil Papers 1, 1377
5. Schutte, 214
6. CSPF 9, 507
7. CSPF 9, 513
8. CSP Simancas 2, 174
9. Cecil Papers 1, 1469
10. CSP Scotland 3, 95
11. CSPF 9, 655
12. Strickland LQS 2, 116
13. Stow. What became known as Old Somerset House was demolished in 1775 and replaced with the present Somerset House.
14. CSP Scotland 3, 110; Original Letters 2, 333–34
15. Regnans in Excelsis
16. CSP Simancas 2, 180
17. CSPF 9, 713
18. Ridley EI, 172
19. CSPF 9, 818
20. CSPF 9, 839
21. Cannon and Hargreaves
22. Merriman ODNB
23. Hardy, 11, states that she served as Elizabeth’s chief lady, but I can find no contemporary evidence to support this.
24. CSPF 9, 855
25. CSP Scotland 3, 195
26. CSP Scotland 3, 196
27. CSPF 9, 870; CSP Scotland 3, 207
28. CSP Scotland 3, 228; CSPF 9, 910
29. CSPF 9, 911; CSP Scotland 3, 230
30. NA SP 52/18, f.41
31. CSP Scotland 3, 214, 215
32. CSP Simancas 2, 198
33. CSPF 9, 918
34. CSP Scotland 3, 244
35. Cecil Papers 1, 1490
36. His heir, Francis, having died, his third son, Richard, inherited Pocklington, which was later purchased by the Dolmans, whose forebears had also served the Lennoxes.
37. CSPF 9, 1026
38. CSP Scotland 3, 289, 304
39. CSP Scotland 3, 340
40. CSP Scotland 3, 344, 350
41. CSP Scotland 3, 356
42. CSP Scotland 3, 402
43. CSPF 9, 1097
44. Tytler
45. Schutte, 216
46. CSPF 9, 1149
47. CSP Scotland 3, 415
48. CSP Simancas 2, 209
49. CSP Scotland 3, 437
50. CSPF 9, 1206
51. Macauley, 223
52. CSP Scotland 3, 434
53. CSP Scotland 3, 446; NA SP 53/5, f.128; William Fraser 1, 450
54. CSP Scotland 3, 468, 469; CSPF 9, 1266; NA SP 52/19, f.98
55. William Fraser 1, 451
56. CSPF 9, 1262; CSP Scotland 3, 465
57. William Fraser 1, 450–51
58. Additional MS. 19,401, f.105
59. CSP Scotland 3, 478
60. CSP Scotland 3, 496
61. CSPF 9, 1286
62. CSPF 9, 1328; CSP Scotland 3, 519
63. CSP Scotland 3, 508
64. Chancellor of the Exchequer.
65. CSPD Elizabeth 74, 9
66. NAS GD 149/265, f.1; CSP Scotland 3, 349; endorsed, “Delivered to her in presence of the Queen of England viijvo Nobris 1570; Robertson 3, 237–38
67. Robertson 3, 238
68. CSP Scotland 3, 584
69. CSPF 9, 1525
70. CSP Simancas 2, 233
71. CSPF 9, 1572
72. CSPD Elizabeth 77, 39
73. CSP Scotland 3, 627
74. Strickland LQS 2, 118
75. CSP Simancas 2, 247; CSPF 9, 1638
76. CSP Simancas 2, 247; CSPF 9, 1647
77. Merriman ODNB
78. CSP Simancas 2, 273
79. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland 12, 240
80. CSP Scotland 3, 764
81. CSP Scotland 3, 777; CSPF 9, 1759
82. CSP Scotland 3, 821
83. CSPF 9, 1985
84. His mother had been Margaret’s bastard half sister, Janet Douglas.
85. CSP Scotland 3, 816; CSPF 9, 1819
86. CSPF 9, 1841
87. CSPF 9, 1847
88. CSP Scotland 3, 841
89. Strickland LQS 2, 118
90. CSPF 9, 1908, 2080, 2085
91. CSP Scotland 3, 856; CSPF 9, 1909
92. Fénélon 4, 180
93. Mann
94. Willey
95. Fielding
96. Records of the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office. Barber’s Barn was later demolished and replaced by a three-storied gabled house built around 1590–91 (Lysons). That house was demolished probably in the 1790s.
97. CSP Scotland 3, 884
98. CSPF 9, 1936; CSP Scotland 3, 888
99. CSPF 9, 1943
100. CSPF 9, 1945
101. CSP Scotland 3, 904
102. CSP Scotland 3, 911
103. He was a younger son of Patrick, Lord Ruthven, who had taken part in the murder of Rizzio and died in exile in 1566.
104. CSP Scotland 3, 917
105. Strickland LQS 2, 118
106. John Phillips
107. CSPF 9, 2027; CSP Scotland 3, 921
108. CSP Scotland 3, 921; CSPF 9, 2026
109. Ibid.
110. CSPF 9, 2027
111. CSPF 9, 2014; CSP Scotland 3, 912, 921
112. CSPF 9, 1983, 1997; CSP Scotland 3, 913; NA SP 52/21, f.69
113. CSP Scotland 3, 912, 921
114. William Fraser 1, 416
115. William Fraser 1, 416; Lisle TFS, 347; Guy MHIMO, 508
116. Strickland LQS 2, 118
117. Spottiswood 2, 166
118. The Historie and Life of King James the Sext, 93
119. Spottiswood 2, 166; William Fraser 1, 416; Marshall ODNB; Merriman; Schutte, 222
120. William Fraser 1, 417
121. Ibid.
122. CSPF 9, 2010
123. A diurnal of remarkable occurrents, 249
124. Calderwood 3, 139
19. “Treason Bereft Me”
1. William Fraser 1, 418
2. William Fraser 1, 453; Strickland LQS 2, 119
3. Ibid.
4. CSP Scotland 4, Appendix, 7; Stedall SC, 135
5. John Phillips
6. NA SP 52/21, f.184
7. CSPF 9, 1997
8. Merriman ODNB
9. Holinshed 5; Marshall ODNB
10. It was then believed that the legendary Brutus of Troy had founded the ancient kingdom of Britain and was the ancestor of all its kings.
11. Holinshed 5
12. CSPF 9
, 2026
13. CSPF 9, 1989
14. CSPF 9, 2027
15. CSPF 9, 2023
16. CSPF 9, 2028
17. CSP Scotland 3, 921
18. CSP Scotland 3, 924
19. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 3
20. CSPF 9, 2023
21. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 7
22. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 8
23. CSPF 9, 2051; CSP Scotland 3, 956
24. CSP Simancas 2, 279
25. CSP Simancas 2, 280
26. CSPF 9, 2059; CSP Scotland 4, 2
27. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 10
28. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 15
29. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 26
30. Chalfant; Strickland LQS 2, 120
31. Canonbury Tower was rebuilt by Spencer in the 1580s and ’90s. Sir Francis Bacon, Oliver Goldsmith and Washington Irving were among the famous persons who later lived there. In 1795 the house was again largely rebuilt and the south range of Prior Bolton’s building was demolished. It served as the Tower Theatre from 1953 to 2003, and is now a Masonic research center. Only parts of the walls survive from the house Margaret knew. The tower and three-story wing to the south date from ca.1580.
32. CSPD Elizabeth 83, 5; Strickland LQS 2, 120
33. CSP Simancas 2, 279
34. Schutte, 222–23
35. CSP Scotland 4, 326
36. Reproduced in Durant and credited to the National Portrait Gallery, although it cannot be traced there.
37. Zurich Letters, 231; CSP Scotland 5, 89; Ashdown RT, 165; Hardy, 12
38. Not an island, but perhaps regarded as one because of its situation on the banks of the Clyde.
39. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 36
40. CSP Scotland 4, 61; CSPF 9, 2136
41. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 57
42. CSPF 10, 824
43. CSP Scotland 4, 122; CSPF 10, 99
44. NA C.142/165/126; Erskine and Paton
45. Mann
46. By 1758 the east side of the southern courtyard of Brooke House was derelict; it was rebuilt and became a mental asylum. The house was bombed in the Blitz of 1940, and the east range of the northern courtyard, comprising a range of what were probably Tudor offices, was destroyed. The remains of Brooke House were acquired by the London County Council in 1944, but deemed too damaged to be restored. After a careful record was made of what survived, the house was demolished in 1954–55. Hackney Community College now stands on the site (Brooke House; Tudor Hackney; Eden et al.).
47. Tudor Hackney
48. Eden et al.
49. CSP Scotland 4, 127
50. CSP Scotland 4, 139
51. CSP Scotland 4, 211
52. CSPF 10, 253; Hardy, 21
53. CSP Scotland 4, 299; CSPF 10, 329
54. CSP Scotland 4, 326
55. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 61
56. CSP Scotland 4 Appendix, 71
57. CSP Scotland 4, 428
58. CSP Scotland 4, 448
59. CSP Scotland 4, 474; CSPF 10, 632
60. Lettres 5, 31
61. Sitwell, 354; Jenkins EL, 199
62. CSP Scotland 5, Introduction
63. Lisle TFS, 350; Guy MHIMO, 382; Stedall CC, 433
64. The Last Testament of the Earl of Bothwell
65. Guy MHIMO, 382
66. NA SP 53/10, f.71
67. Chalmers 2, 243
68. MacNalty, 145
69. CSP Scotland 5, 38
70. Sitwell, 354
71. CSPF 10, 738
72. CSPF 10, 754
73. CSPF 10, 780
74. CSPF 10, 824
75. CSP Scotland 4, 596
76. CSP Scotland 4, 605
77. CSP Scotland 4, 703
78. CSP Scotland 4, 713; CSPF 10, 1119
79. CSPF 10, 1117
80. CSP Scotland 4, 720; CSPF 10, 1133; Campling
81. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland 2, 247, 330
82. A Survey of the Manor of Settrington
83. CSP Scotland 5, 21
20. “The Hasty Marriage”
1. Lovell, 259
2. Lovell, 200
3. CSP Scotland 5, 66
4. Lovell, 240
5. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
6. Ibid.
7. Durant, 8
8. Handover, 48
9. Lisle TFS, 349; Ashdown RT, 169–70; Hardy, 14
10. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
11. Gristwood, 16
12. CSP Simancas 2, 403
13. Ashdown RT, 167; Hardy, 16
14. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 12
15. Ibid.
16. APC 8, 293
17. CSP Simancas 2, 403
18. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
19. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 12; Sandeford, 143; Strickland LQS 2, 122–23
20. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
21. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 12; Strickland LQS 2, 122–23
22. Lovell, 242
23. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 12; Strickland LQS 2, 122–23
24. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
25. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 12; Strickland LQS 2, 122–23
26. Ibid.
27. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
28. What remains of the house and abbey after much of it was demolished in the 1950s is an imposing ruin set in a country park.
29. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
30. Cited Gristwood, 12–13
31. Jenkins EL, 201
32. Hardy, 14
33. Handover, 50
34. In the 1950s, before Rufford Abbey was partly demolished, the chapel was still hung with tapestries and contained armorial glass commemorating the marriage.
35. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
36. Durant, 6–7, 14–15
37. Norrington, 24
38. MacNalty, 145
39. A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, 255–57
40. Lovell, 245–46
41. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 12; Strickland LQS 2, 122–23
42. Ibid.
43. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 13
44. CSP Scotland 5, 66; Hardy, 18
45. CSP Simancas 2, 408
46. CSPD Elizabeth 99, 13
47. Lovell, 247
48. Strickland LQS 2, 123
49. Durant, 9; Lovell, 247
50. Strickland LQS 2, 123; Lefuse, 14
51. Hardy, 19
52. For Sir William Livingston, see Kilsyth, a Parish History. Morton was found guilty and beheaded on “the Maiden,” an early guillotine he had himself introduced into Scotland.
53. CSP Scotland 5, 89
54. CSP Scotland 5, 68
55. CSP Scotland 5, 21. Fowler’s interrogation by Walsingham is listed under July 1574, but it clearly took place after Charles Stuart’s marriage, probably in December.
56. Ashdown RT, 171
57. Strickland LTP, 94
58. Hardy, 125; Gristwood, 15; Lefuse, 15–16
59. Lovell, 249
60. Borman, 295, 296
61. Gristwood, 19
62. Lettres 7, 243
63. CSP Scotland 5, 89, 94
64. Gristwood, 19; Lefuse, 17
65. A Survey of the Manor of Settrington
66. Cavendish-Talbot MS. X.d.428, f.108; Hardy, 19
67. Cecil Papers Addenda, 123
68. William Fraser 1, 459
69. Harleian MS. 289, ff.200, 202; Archaeologia 32, 81; Strickland LTP, 94; Hardy, 19
70. John Phillips
71. CSP Scotland 5, 210
72. This was the first recorded mention of Arbella in contemporary sources (Durant, 10).
73. CSP Scotland 5, 210
74. Ashdown RT, 172; Strickland LTP, 95
21. “Till Death Do Finish My Days”
1. Strickland LTP, 94
2. John Phillips
3. NA PROB 12 Langley. Most of the church was demolished in 1798, and only the tower survives.
4. Holinshed, 5
5. CSP Scotland 5, 227; CSPF 11, 755
6. Clarke; Borman, 297
7. Lisle TFS, 352; Marshall QMW, 122; Schutte, 233
8. Durant, 15
9. Strickland LQS 2, 124 (no source cited)
10. Hardy, 22
11. Harleian MS. 289, f.202; Macauley, 86
12. Harleian MS. 289, f.202
13. Harleian MS. 289, f.198
14. A Survey of the Manor of Settrington
15. Davey SLJG, 286
16. Strickland LTP, 95; Robertson 2, Appendix
17. APC 10, 161
18. Schutte, 232
19. A Survey of the Manor of Settrington
20. Durant, 14
21. Strickland LTP, 95; Durant, 14
22. CSP Scotland 5, 290
23. CSP Scotland 5, 277, 290
24. CSP Scotland 5, 291
25. Strickland LTP, 96
26. Lettres 4, 397–8
27. Durant, 14; Lisle TFS, 352
28. Hardy, 24
29. CSP Scotland 5, 370
30. CSP Scotland 5, 295
31. Norrington, 25
32. Folger Shakespeare Library L.a.249
33. Varlow, 54
34. MacNalty, 153
35. Nichols 2, 522. A casting bottle was used for sprinkling scented water.
36. Lettres 6, 51–7
37. Lovell, 314–15; Borman 314–15
38. A Survey of the Manor of Settrington
39. NA PROB 11/60/174. The will is dated 1577, but the new year of 1578 did not officially begin until Lady Day, March 25.
40. It has been suggested that the tablet given to Leicester is perhaps to be identified with a girdle book containing a portrait of the King now in the British Library (Stowe MS. 956) and once in the possession of the descendants of William Seymour, Duke of Somerset, the man Arbella married; and that Arbella was briefly betrothed to Leicester’s heir, the “noble imp,” Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh, in childhood; and that the tablet came to her at this time (Lisle TFS, 414), but there is no proof of the betrothal.
41. Eden et al.; NA PROB 11/60/174. The will was witnessed and sealed by Dr. Robert Huicke, the Queen’s physician, Dr. Richard Caldwell, Sir Robert Bowes, N. Paine, Robert Weldoms, Margery Williams, John Wolfe, Laurence Nesbit and William Mompesson, in the presence of William Drury, Doctor of Law and commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
42. Durant, 15; Lovell, 275
43. John Phillips
44. The date is given in her tomb epitaph and by Holinshed, although John Phillips gives March 9.
45. John Phillips
46. Marshall ODNB
47. Elizabeth Throckmorton, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh.
48. Peck
49. Miller, 143
50. Naunton; Sitwell, 101; Jenkins EL, 293
