God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England

by Childs, Jessie

  28 The main sources here are The Case of William Earl of Banbury, which includes minutes of the evidence given before the Committee of Privileges, and Nicolas, A Treatise on the Law of Adulterine Bastardy.

  29 Nicolas, Adulterine Bastardy, pp. 302, 311–16, 319. Knollys did not mention the boy in his will of 19 May 1630.

  30 The Case of William Earl of Banbury, Minutes, pp. 57–9, 254.

  31 Questier, Newsletters from the Caroline Court, p. 122. John Southcot, who wrote those words, was, admittedly, incensed that Edward had assented to the ‘Protestatio Declaratoria’ against the jurisdiction of Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, in England, although secular disapproval of Edward and Elizabeth’s relationship seems to have pre-dated the petition. See ibid., pp. 78–81.

  32 HMC Salisbury, 22, p. 433.

  33 BL Harl MS 5808, f. 9r.

  34 The Case of William Earl of Banbury, Minutes, pp. 219–30.

  35 V. Stater, ‘Knollys, William’, ODNB.

  36 Nicolas, Adulterine Bastardy, passim, but esp. pp. 65–6, 72, 529–31.

  37 PRO PROB 11/305/356.

  38 Vaux Petitions, p. 5.

  39 Hansard, 21 Feb. 1962, 4.44 pm (cols 758–9).

  40 NRO V 375. The anonymous author seems confused; Lord Vaux was already a monk.

  41 Barlow, The Gunpowder-Treason, pp. 1–2.

  42 PRO SP 14/216/180; Howell, State Trials, II, cols 186–7.

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  Harley Manuscripts

  Lansdowne Manuscripts

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