The Elizabethans
Page 58
Waite, Thomas 70
Wakefield 261
Waldegrave, Robert 280–1
Wales 300
Wales Wood 137
Walsingham, Sir Francis 3, 28, 111–16, 120, 142, 196, 197, 209, 219, 264, 265, 272, 349, 356
the Armada 250, 255, 257
Babington Plot 231–3
death 299, 302
and Drake 175, 176, 255
and Ireland 9, 171, 172
and Mary, Queen of Scots 230–3, 236, 237, 241, 242
and Protestantism 108, 186, 208
and Sidney 111, 211, 214
spy-master 107, 108, 115, 203, 272, 313, 315, 319, 325
Walton, Isaak 284
Wanchese 227
War of the Roses 39, 45, 52, 70, 169, 215, 278
Wardour Castle 133
Warwick 269
Warwick, Earl of 101, 114
Warwickshire 282
Watts, Archdeacon 77
Waugh, Evelyn 200, 264
Weaye, William 72
Webster, John 124
weddings 126–7
Welbeck Abbey 129, 133
Welshman 44–5
Wentworth, William 120
West Breifne, Lord of 301
West Indies 15, 19
Westminster 297
Westminster Abbey 32–3, 138, 242, 353
Westminster Hall 301, 360
Westminster School 78, 222
Westmorland 76
Westmorland, Countess of 122
Westmorland, Earl of 92, 94, 99, 101
Wetheringsett 222, 338
Whalley 94
Whickham 132
Whiddon, Jacob 331, 334
whipping 307
White, John 228
White, Sir Thomas 77
Whitefriars Theatre 269
Whitehall 293
Whitehead, David 77
Whitgift, Archbishop John 263, 280–1, 365
Whitlocke, James 78
Whitney, Eleanor 313
Whittingham, Katherine 99–100
Whittingham, William 99–100
Wicklow 353
wife-beating 126
Wigan 94
Wigston, Roger 281
Wilcox, Thomas 144
Wilkes, Thomas 212
the William and John 23
William of Orange 39, 185, 187, 206–7, 342
William the Silent see William of Orange
Williams, Penry 101, 171
Williams, Roger 349
Williams, Thomas 22
Willoughby, Sir Francis 132
Willoughby d’Eresby, Lord 352
Wilson, Derek 50
Wilson, Thomas 185
Wilton House 135, 136
Wiltshire 133, 137, 285
Windham, Master Sergeant 145
Windsor, Duchess of 311
Windsor Castle 138
Winchester 78
Winchester, Bishop of 281, 307
Winchester, Marquess of 42, 116
Wingfield Manor 129, 131
Winter, John 176, 179
Winter, Sir William 174, 251
Winterbourne 326
witchcraft 87, 88
Wittenberg 367
Witney 297
wizardry 89
Wolfe, Reyne/Reginald 143
Wolsey, Cardinal 306
women 37–9, 122–39
Wood, Anthony 185
Wood, Sir Robert 145
Woodneff 76
Woodstock 165, 166
Worcester, Earls of 352
Workington 97
Worksop Manor 129, 133
Wriothesley, Henry 215
Wyatt, Sir Thomas 46
Wynter, George 175
Yarm 95
Yates, Frances 89, 91, 150, 318, 322
York 93, 261
York, Archbishop of 33, 65
York, Elizabeth of 188
Yorkshire 113, 129, 133, 137
Young, Dr John 216
Zutphen 213
Zwingli 60, 198
All portraits of Queen Elizabeth told a story. This one was a present from her Champion Sir Henry Lee, and shows Elizabeth dominating her kingdom, with her toe on his own estate at Ditchley Park.
The Tudor dynasty – Henry VIII is depicted with his heirs : Mary Tudor and her husband Philip II of Spain. Edward VI and Elizabeth I.
The rigid control of the Elizabethan state was in the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham
Elizabeth’s long-term Secretary and adviser, William Cecil, first Lord Burleigh.
William Shakespeare
The grammar school at Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare went ‘unwillingly to school’. The grammar school system of the Elizabethans was a key ingredient of their great national Renaissance.
The Queen’s childhood friend and great love was Robert Dudley.
Kenilworth, Robert Dudley's Warwickshire seat, was the scene of one of the most spectacular of Elizabethan pageants.
Edmund Spenser, whose unfinished Faerie Queene, infused with Protestantism, numerology and adventure, defined the Elizabethans to themselves in stupendously elaborate verse.
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Sir Philip Sidney’s sister, was herself a poet and patron of the arts.
Sir Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe...
...and his cousin Sir John Hawkins were navigators of genius
Both Drake and Hawkins instigated the challenge to Hispanic world-dominance, and their defeat of the Spanish Armada changed world history
Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, scholar, poet and novelist, was the archetypical Renaissance man.
At Penshurst Place Sidney was the patron of many other poets.
Sidney's death in the Low Countries, as a result of a wound in battle, was followed by one of the largest funerals ever witnessed in Elizabethan London.
‘The great Globe itself ’ (The Tempest Act IV.ii) – when a carpenter named Burbage built the first theatre in London he made possible the prodigious renaissance in the drama which produced Marlowe and Shakespeare.
Hunting and outdoor sports were a passion for Elizabethans, most of whom lived in the country.
Sir Henry Lee, the Queen’s Champion, stage-managed nearly all the great Accession Day tilts and other examples of royalist pageantry.
Lettice Knollys, a mischievous beauty, was a Boleyn cousin of the Queen. She was by turns Countess of Essex (and mother of the Queen’s last favourite) and second wife of the Earl of Leicester (the Queen's childhood friend and great love).
Queen Elizabeth’s extensive and elaborate wardrobe was largely paid for by her admirers and courtiers. A pair of gloves would be the least she would expect as a New Year’s present from a member of her court.
A satirical picture which depicts Spain losing control of the Low Countries. Philip II, by now an old man, is barely in control of the Cow (the Dutch) who is being surreptitiously fed by Elizabeth.
It was the great era of domestic building. Longleat was one of the first great houses not to be fortified, a sign that the civil wars of the past were over.
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire was a sign of the enormous wealth of its proprietress, Bess of Hardwick. It is also a wholly original, modern piece of architecture, anticipating the modern movement in its dazzling use of glass.
The Middle Temple Hall was the scene not only of many legal dinners but also of plays. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night probably had its first performance here.
The 16th century religious legacy. Pope Pius V, whose tomb is shown, excommunicated Elizabeth and called Catholics to depose her, if necessary by violence.
Mary Queen of Scots became the (willing) figure- head for Catholic rebellion.
On her state visit in May 2011, Queen Elizabeth II, with bowed and silent head, acknowledged the disaster of English attitudes to Ireland since Queen Elizabeth I.
Dr Dee, mathematician, mage, and book- collector, was one of the first to popularize the astronomical discoveries of Copernicus, and coined
the phrase ‘the British Empire’.
Richard Hooker, whose statue dominates the close of Exeter Cathedral, was a great philosopher and theologue who in a sense invented what is today called Anglicanism.
In this portrait, the Queen, looking particularly Welsh, fingers pearls. She loved jewels, but the picture is full of symbolism. The pearls are loot from the Spanish Main, used as a symbol of her virgin purity.
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