St Denis horse fair, 117
St James’s Palace, 44
St John’s College, Cambridge, 14
St Mary’s, Oxford, 104
St Mary’s, Warwick, 132
St Michel, Order of, 40, 132
St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, 62–3, 70
St Paul’s Cathedral, 75, 266
St Paul’s choir boys, 145
St Paul’s Cross, 64, 189
St Quentin, 78–9, 91, 96, 187
St Swithin’s, London, 157
Salisbury, Bishop of, See Jewel, John
Sampson, Thomas, 189
San Domingo, 258
Sanders, Nicholas, 186
Sandys, Edwin, Bishop of Worcester, 94
Sawston Hall, 55–6
Saxlingham, Holt, 37
Saxony, Augustus, Elector of, 79
Scambler, Edmund, Bishop of Peterborough, 94, 188, 204
Scheldt, River, 255–7
Schenck, Sir Martin, 252
Scheyfve, Jean, Imperial ambassador, 39–40, 45–6
Scory, John, Bishop of Hereford
Scory, Sylvanus, 237
Scottish Council/Government, 23, 25, 87, 130–1, 134, 167, 175
Scottish Protestant Lords, 97–8, 130, 133–4, 161, 164, 166, 170, 175
Secretary of State in England, 14, 36, 82, 178
Seymour, Anne, 37
Seymour, Edward, 1st Earl of Hertford, later, 1st Duke of Somerset, Protector, ‘The Good Duke’, 3, 10–29, 31–3, 35–7, 40–4, 63
Seymour, Edward, 2nd Earl of Hertford, 15, 111–2, 116, 161
Seymour, Edward, Lord Beauchamp, 112, 125, 134, 162
Seymour, Jane, Queen of England, 13, 49, 107
Seymour, Jane (Somerset’s daughter), 42, 111
Seymour Place, Strand, 20
Seymour, Mary, 26
Seymour, Thomas, later Lord of Sudeley, 3, 18–23, 25–8, 43, 92, 107
Seymour, Thomas (2nd son of the 2nd Earl), 112, 125, 134, 162
Seymours, 13
Shakespeare, William, 145–6, 195, 273, 281
Sharington, Sir William, 9, 26
Sheen, 37
Sheffield, John 2nd Lord, 181, 183
Sheffield, Robert, later Dudley, 181–2, 184–5, 201, 204, 207, 211, 275–7
Shelley-Sidney, Sir John, 185
Shepherd’s Calendar, The, 143
Sherburn School, Durham, 189
Shirley, Sir Thomas, 247
Shrewsbury, Earl of, See Talbot, George
Shrewsbury School, 136
Sidney, Ambrosia, 142
Sidney family, 181, 185
Sidney, Frances, Countess of Sussex, 154
Sidney, Sir Henry, 15, 34, 41, 44, 54, 74, 96, 108–9, 116, 129, 136, 142–3, 149, 152, 157, 162–3, 174, 194, 198–9, 202, 210, 253
Sidney, Mary, later Countess of Pembroke, 142–3
Sidney, Sir Philip, 74, 136–7, 142–3, 194, 202, 209–10, 213, 219, 222, 224–5, 228, 233, 236, 238, 240, 242, 251–3, 265, 276
Sidney, Robert, 266, 276
Sidney, Sir William, 15
Silva, Don Diego de, y Guzmán, 121–3, 131, 133, 136–7, 145, 152, 155, 157–8, 267, 269, 280
Simier, Jean de, Baron de St Marc, 143, 205, 218–9, 227, 234
Sluis, 255–8, 267, 269, 280
Smith, Sir Thomas, 126, 128, 152
Snakenborg, Helena von, 158, 202
Snowdon, Chief Forester of, 131, 150
Somerset, Duke of, See Seymour, Edward
Somerset House, The Strand, 28, 81
Somery, Margaret de, 5
Somme, River, 8, 78
Southampton, 46, 170
Southampton, Earl of, See Wriothesley
Southwell, Elizabeth, 277
Southwick, 116
Spanish ambassadors, 86–7, 121, 126, 213
Spanish invasion of England, See Enterprise of England
Spenser, Edmund, 143–4, 203, 278
Spinelli, Julio, Italian Engineer, 173
Spinola, Mr, Robert’s agent in Flanders, 140
Stafford, Sir Edward, 183–5, 204, 217, 227, 233, 255
Stanhope, Anne Countess of Hereford, later Duchess of Somerset, 13, 22, 27, 38, 42, 162
Stanley, Sir Edward, 251, 253
Stanley, Henry, 4th Earl of Derby, 269
Stanley, Sir Henry, 252
Stanley, Sir William, 254
Star Chamber, Court of, 111, 162, 184–5, 277
States General of the United Provinces, 221–4, 228, 239–40, 243, 246–9, 254, 256–7, 273, 280
Stewart, Lord James, later Earl of Moray, 92, 96, 98, 133–4, 167–8, 170, 172, 175
Stonehall, Manor of, 141,
Stow, John, 146
Strafford, Earl of, See Wentworth
Stratford-upon-Avon, 195
Stuart, Arbella, 201, 211, 230, 234, 276
Stuart, Charles, 5th Earl of Lennox, 201, 230
Stuart, Esmé, later Duke of Lennox, 226, 229–30
Stuart, Henry, Lord Darnley, xvii, 49–50, 76, 113, 130–4, 152, 161, 168–9, 176
Stuart, Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox, 23, 49, 76, 131, 133
Stuarts, 210, 234
Stubbs, John, 219–20
Sturm, John, 190
Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, 19, 26
Suárez, de Figueroa y Córdoba, Gómez, 1st Duke of Feria, 78, 91–4
Suffolk, Dukes of, See Brandon or Grey
Surrey, Earl of, See Howard, Henry
Sussex, Earl of, See Radcliffe, Thomas
Sussex, Lady, See Sidney, Frances, Countess of
Sutton, John, 5
Sutton of Dudley (later Dudley) family, 5
Sweden, Kings of, See Vasa
Swetkowitz (or Zwetkovitch), Adam, Baron Mitterburg, Austrian Envoy, 123
Syderstone and other adjacent estates, 37, 58, 79
Syon House, Middlesex, 56, 58
Talbot, Francis, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 8, 57
Talbot, George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 138, 168, 172, 177–8, 182, 200, 261, 281
Talbot, Gilbert, 182
Talboys, Elizabeth, Baroness, 44
Tamworth (Robert’s servant), 115
Temple Bar, 69
Tennis, Real, 124
Thames, River/Estuary, 52, 68, 213, 241–2, 269, 272–3
Theobalds, Hertfordshire, 207
‘The Theatre’, Shoreditch, 146
Thirty-Nine Articles of religion, 135, 191
Thomas, William, 32
Three Cranes Wharf, 157
Throckmorton, Francis, 230
Throckmorton, Sir John, 235
Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, 71, 99, 104–5, 114–15, 117, 122, 132–4, 153–4, 160, 162, 164–5, 170, 230, 234
Tilbury, 272–4
Titchfield, 171
Toledo, Fernando, Álvares de, 3rd Duke of Alva, 74, 78, 166, 170, 172–6, 225
Tower Armoury, Master of the, 9
Tower Hill, 7, 43, 60, 63, 70, 75
Tower of London (The Tower), 3–4, 6, 19, 27, 32–4, 36, 38, 41–2, 56–62, 64–7, 69–70, 72–5, 85, 88, 90, 95, 111–12, 116, 133–4, 171–3, 176, 186–7, 193, 201, 205, 225, 239, 263
Tower Wharf, 42, 68, 97, 265
Tragedy of Tancred and Gismunda, The, 145
Treasurer, Lord, 41, 177
Tree of Commonwealth, The, 6, 146
Trincetta, Hercules, 85
Trinity College, Oxford, 76
Troyes, Treaty of, 117
Tudors, 5, 7, 146, 168, 233, 279
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, 168, 172–3
Tyndale’s New Testament, 28
Tyndall, Humphrey, 204
Ultra-Protestant, See Puritan
United Provinces, 223, 226, 228, 242–5, 247, 249, 252, 255, 266–7, 280
Upper Ossery, Lord of, See Fitzpatrick
‘Ursa Major and Minor’ (Robert and Ambrose), 173
Utrecht, 247, 249–50
Vadstana, Castle of, 113
Valois, Eli
sabeth de, 40, 124
Valois family, 219
Valois, Francis de, Duke of Alençon, later Duke of Anjou, Elizabeth’s ‘Frog’ or ‘Monsieur’, 141, 143, 145, 174–5, 205–6, 216–20, 226–8, 234
Vassy, Champagne, 114
Vaucelles, Truce of, 77
Vavasour, Thomas, 247
Vedentz, George Johan, 113
Venlo, 251
Vere, Edward de, 17th Earl of Oxford, 157
Victoria and Albert Museum, 142
Vienna, 163, 165
Vigo, Spain, 258
Virtuous Life, A, 233
Vives, Juan Luys, Spanish humanist, 9
Walsingham, Frances, 210, 240, 253, 266
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 85, 137, 174–9, 189, 192, 200, 202, 209–11, 216–18, 221–3, 225, 229–33, 237–40, 245–6, 248, 250–1, 253–8, 260–2, 265–6, 269, 275
Wanstead Hall, Essex, 61, 141, 144, 149, 202, 204, 207–8, 213, 219, 234, 240, 274, 276, 281
Wardrobe, Keeper of the, 37
Wardrobe Tower, Tower of London, 19
Warner, Sir Edward, 112
Warwick Castle, 18, 30, 44, 193, 207
Warwick Earls of, See Dudley, Nevill or Beauchamp, 181
Warwick, Steward of, 150
Warwickshire, High Sheriff of, 197
Watson, Thomas, Bishop of London, 90
Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 237
West, Sir Thomas, 9th Lord De La Warr, 8
Westminster, 13, 19, 47–8, 62, 71, 265, 273
Westminster Abbey, 19, 64, 89, 127
Westminster, Conference at, 168–9
Westminster Hall, 89
Westminster, Keeper of the Palace of, 37
Westminster, Palace of, 76
Westmoreland, Earl of, See Neville, Charles
Weston, John, 237
Wharton, Sir Thomas, 1st Lord, 23, 25
White, John, Bishop of Winchester, 90–1
White, Thomas, Lord Mayor of London, 66
Whitehall Palace, 95, 145, 159, 205, 274
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 191–2, 232, 265
Whorwood, Anne, 37, 44
Whorwood, William, 38
Wiburn, Percival, 188
Widgen Hall, 196
Wight, Isle of, 75, 270, 272
William, Prince of Orange, 137, 166, 174, 221–2, 224–6, 228–9, 238, 249–50
Williams, Margery, Lady Norreys of Rycote, 274
Williams, Sir Roger, 238, 255, 257, 272
Willoughby, Charles, 2nd Lord of Parham, 228, 266
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 11, 48
Willoughby, Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, 10, 13, 41
Wilson, Derek, xviii, 205
Wilson, Thomas, Scholar and Agent, 9, 221, 223, 225
Wilton House, Wiltshire, 46, 143
Wimbledon, 80
Winchester, Bishop of, See Horne, Robert
Windsor Castle, 33, 42, 46–7, 86, 95, 99, 101, 103, 133, 154, 267
Windsor Castle, Constable and Lieutenant of, 94, 150
Wingfield Manor, Derbyshire, 172
Winter Admiral William, 223
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 2, 7–8
Wood, Thomas, 190
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 73, 75, 136–7
Worcester College, Oxford, 104
Wotton, Sir Henry, 208
Wriothesley, Henry, 2nd Earl of Southampton, 171
Wriothesley, Thomas, later 1st Earl of Southampton, 2, 17–8, 32, 35–6
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 67–9, 71–2
Wyatt’s Rebellion, 68–9, 72, 92
Wychwood, Forest of, 142, 150
Wydeville, Elizabeth, 50
Yarmouth, 59
York, Conference at, 168–9
York, Proposed meeting with Mary Queen of Scots at, 114, 126
Yorke, Sir Rowland, 254
Young, Thomas, Archbishop of York, 94, 157
Zeeland, 223, 226, 245, 249–50, 267, 280
Zurich, 87
Zutphen, 252, 254–5
Zwetkovich, See Swetkowitz
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