Note: Abbreviations used in the index are: EI for Queen Elizabeth I; RDev for Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; RDu for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; MS for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; ToL for the Tower of London.
Accession Day celebrations
Act against Conjuration … Witchcraft
Act for the Queen’s Surety
Act of Supremacy
Act of Uniformity
Act to Retain the Queen’s Majesty’s …
Adolphus, Duke of Holstein
Alba, Duke of
alchemy
Alençon (later Anjou), François, Duke of see Anjou (formerly Alençon), François, Duke
Allen, Cardinal William; Admonition to the Nobility …
Andrada, Manuel de
animals, pet
Anjou (formerly Alençon), François, Duke of; EI’s poem about; in England; death; in The Secret History of the Duke …
Anjou, Henri, Duke of see Henri III, King of France
Annais, John
Appletree, Thomas
Arden, Edward
Aretino, Pietro: sonnets
Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furioso
Arte of English Poesie, The
Arundel, Henry Fitzalan, Earl of
Arundell, Charles
Arundell, Sir Matthew
Ascham, Roger
Ashley, John
Ashley, Kat: in EI’s early life; in ToL; Lady of the Bedchamber; and plot re King Erik; death; and Arthur Dudley claim
assassination of EI: attempts and plots, (Babington), (Stafford), (Squires); endorsed by Pope;risk
Aston, Sir Roger
Audley End, Essex
Aylmer, John, Bishop of London
Babington, Anthony
Bacon, Lady Anne
Bacon, Sir Francis; Declaration of the Practices …
Bacon, Sir Nicholas
Bacton, Herefordshire
Bagot, Antony
Bailey, Walter
Bailly, Charles
Ballard, John
Banks, John: The Unhappy Favourite
Barlow, William, Bishop of Lincoln
Barnwell, Robert
Bayly, Dr
Baynard’s Castle
Beale, Robert; ‘Discourse after the Great Murder…’
Beaufort, Lady Margaret
Beaumont, Comte de (French ambassador)
Bedchamber; of Mary I; T. Seymour in; security; Nonsuch, RDev bursts in; St James Palace; Whitehall; after death of EI; see also Ladies of the Bedchamber
bedfellows
Bedford House
beds
Beltran, Jean Baptista
Berney, Kenelm
Blackwood, Adam: Martyre de la royne d’Escosse
Blount, Sir Michael
Blower, Henry
Bocosel, Pierre de
Bodin, Jean
Boleyn, Anne; Catholic view of
Boleyn, Mary (later Carey)
Bolton Castle, Yorkshire
‘Bond of Association’
Book of Common Prayer
Boorde, Andrew
Borth, François
Bothwell, James Hepburn, Earl of
Bracciano, Duke of
Bradbelt, Dorothy
Brandon, Mary, Duchess of Suffolk
Breuner, Caspar, Baron von Rabenstein
Brinkley, Stephen
Britten, Benjamin: Gloriana
Bromley, Sir Thomas
Brooke, William, Baron Cobham
Brown, Maurice
Browne, Anthony, 1st Viscount Montague
Bruno, Giordano
Brydges, Eleanor
Brydges, Elizabeth
Bullinger, Henry
Burchet, Peter
Burcot, Dr
Burgh, Frances, Lady
Cahill, Hugh
Camden, William
Campbell, Hugh
Campeggio, Cardinal
Campion, Edmund
Carew, Sir George
Carey, Henry, Lord Hunsdon
Carey, Katherine (later Lady Knollys) see Knollys, Katherine, Lady
Carey, Katherine (niece of Lady Knollys)
Carey, Philadelphia (née Knollys), Lady Scrope
Carey, Robert
Carleton, Dudley
Carlisle Castle
Carlos, Don
Casimir, Duke of
Castelnau, Michel de, French ambassador
Catherine, Princess of Sweden
Catherine de Medici; EI’s letter to
Catholic Church and Catholicism; EI’s early life; on EI’s accession; Huguenot massacres; Popes; EI excommunicated,; ‘Enterprise of England’; and James VI/I
Catholics: in England; legislation against (on EI’s accession), (1562), (1571), (1581); plots and threat, (‘devouring lions’) (after Mary arrives in England), (Parry), (Babington), (Stafford), (Squires); priests in England; exiles and Oath of Allegiance; see also Jesuits
Catholic League
Cavali, Marin
Cave, Margaret: wedding
Cavendish, Richard
Cecil, Sir Robert; and RDev; correspondence with James VI; at death of EI
Cecil, Thomas, Lord Burghley
Cecil, Sir Thomas
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley; and EI’s marriage negotiations; and MS; and RDu; and Catholic plots; illness; and alchemy; assesses safety of the realm, 1569; on death of MS; and Lopez; and RDev; death; ‘Certain Cautions…’; De Matrimonial Reginae …
Cecilia, Princess of Sweden
Châteauneuf, Baron de, French ambassador
Challoner, Sir Thomas
Chamberlain, John
Chandos, Lady (later Knollys)
Charles IX, King of France; marriage with EI negotiations; death
Charles von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria
Charnock, Thomas
Chastelard, Seigneur de
chastity
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Chelsea; Old Manor
Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Christmas: 1563; 1564; 1565; 1568; 1584; 1588; 1601
Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern
Church of England; see also Protestant Church; Protestants
Churchyard, Thomas: Cupid’s Fall from Heaven
Clapham, John
Clifford, Anne
Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, 1st Earl of Lincoln
Clinton, Elizabeth Fiennes de (née Fitzgerald), Countess of Lincoln
Clowes, William
Cobham, Frances (née Newton), Lady; early life; family
Cobham, Henry
Cobham, William Brooke, Baron; and Ridolfi plot
Cockfield Hall, Suffolk
Cockrame, John
Coffer Chamber
Coke, Sir Edward
Combe, Thomas
Common Cry of Englishman, The …
Conference about the next succession …
Copy of a Letter …
Cordell, Sir William
Corfeu, Maniola de
cosmetics
Council of Trent
court; progresses (1560, 44), (1561), (1578), (1591), (1600); see also Bedchamber; Coffer Chamber; Presence Chamber; Privy Chamber
Cowdray, Sussex
Coxe, Fr. John
Creleto, Giocomo
Cumnor Place, Berkshire
da Gama, Esteban Ferreira
dancing
Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord; meets MS; marriage; as husband; death
Darrell, Hugh
Davison, William
de Caron, Sir Noel
De Jezebelis Anglae
de la Noue, Col.
de Maisse, André Hurault, M.
Dee, Arthur
Dee, Dr John: casts horoscope; nullifies witchcraft; and EI’s illness; children’s baptisms; Scudamores visit
Denbigh, Lord (son of RDu)
Denny, Sir Anthony
Denny, Joan (née Ashley)
Derby, Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of
> Derby, William Stanley, 6th Earl of
Deryck, Dionisia
des Trappes, Leonard
Devereux, Dorothy
Devereux, Frances (formerly Sidney)
Devereux, Lettice see Knollys, Lettice
Devereux, Penelope (later Lady Rich)
Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex; early life; Portugal voyage; marriage; in France; and Lopez; and A Conference about the next succession … ; at tilt of, 1595; raid on Cadiz; and Lady Stanley; assassination attempt; appointed Earl Marshal; and E. Brydges; sent to Ireland; bursts into Bedchamber; house arrest; commission of enquiry; in disgrace; rebellion; trial; death; remembered; in publications
Devereux, Walter, Viscount Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex
Devereux, Walter (son of Robert)
di Como, Cardinal
Dingle, Joanna
Ditchley, Oxfordshire
Dormer, Jane
Douai seminary
Downes, Robert
Drake, Sir Francis
Drant, Thomas, Bishop
dress; security
du Perron, Cardinal: Vers Funebres
Dudley, Ambrose, 3rd Earl of Warwick; leads French expedition; marriage; death
Dudley, Anne, Countess of Warwick see Warwick, Anne Dudley (née Russell), Countess
Dudley, Arthur
Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland
Dudley, John (cousin of RDu)
Dudley, John (Sergeant of the Pastry)
Dudley, Katherine (later Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon); on death of husband; subsequently
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester; appearance; early life and career; 1st marriage; relationship with EI, (inscription in book at Windsor), (at Kenilworth) (EI learns of his marriage), (rumours and attacks in print,); plots against; death of wife; as possible husband for EI; and succession question; offered as suitor to MS; ennobled; and Duke of Norfolk; and EI’s marriage negotiations; and plot to marry MS to Norfolk; and Lady Douglas; entertains EI at Kenilworth; and Lettice Knollys, (2nd marriage); and Catholics; and Netherlands; and death of MS; and Arthur Dudley; at Tilbury; illness; death; in A New Discourse…: The Metamorphosis of Ajax
Durham Cathedral
Durham Place, London
Dyer, Edward
Dymock, John
earthquake
Egerton, Sir Thomas
Egg, Augustus Leopold: Queen Elizabeth …
Eliot, George
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
BIOGRAPHY: birth; childhood; with K. Parr; in ToL; at Cheshunt; Hatfield; accession; coronation; first Parliament; smallpox; addresses Parliament, 1562; ennobles Dudley; illness, 1564–5; speaks on marriage, 1565;1565 outburst; illness, 1566; and alchemy; petitioned to marry; addresses Parliament, 1566; on MS’s arrival in England; Rising of the North; excommunicated; illness, 1572; at Kenilworth; East Anglia progress, 1578; illness, 1579; addresses Parliament, 1584; proclamations, 1584; and Babington plot; and execution of MS; at Tilbury; on death of RDu; 1591 progress; hears Hutton’s sermon; hears Rudd’s sermon; meets de Maisse; at Nonsuch, 1598; at RDev rebellion; decline; death; funeral
MARRIAGE NEGOTIATIONS: (suitors listed), (Archduke Charles), (Erik of Sweden), (Charles IX of France), (Henri of Anjou), (François d’Alençon [Anjou])
PERSONAL: appearance, (1597), (1598), (1599), (surprised by RDev); body, (protection),… (poems about), (after death); dancing; fertility; hair; health; intelligence; music; ring; teeth; toilet; touches for King’s evil; walking; supposed to have borne children; ageing
RELATIONSHIPS: Anjou (François); K. Ashley; bedfellows; W. Cecil; E. Clinton; F. Cobham; RDev; RDu, (inscription in book at Windsor), (at Kenilworth), (learns of his marriage); J. Harington; C. Hatton; K. Parr; B. Parry; Ralegh; M. Scudamore; T. Seymour; M. Sidney; Simier; MS, (on MS’s, 2nd marriage), (on birth of MS’s son), (on death of Darnley), (on MS’s arrival in England) (urged to have MS executed), (and death warrant)
IMAGES; poisoned; lewd pictures in Paris; portraits, (on coin) (Pelican), (Phoenix), (Zuccaro’s), (with Armada), (Ditchley), (‘Rainbow’), (posthumous); tomb; wax
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT: biographies; films; poems; printed attacks
WRITINGS BY: letters (to K. Carey), (Catherine de Medici), (R. Devereux), (RDu), (J. Harington), (Duke of Holstein), (James VI), (Lord Protector), (Earl of Shrewsbury), (M. Sidney), (E. Stafford), (MS); poems
Elizabeth I (film)
Elizabeth II, Queen
Elkes, Thomas
embalming
Enfield
Englefield, Sir Francis
‘Enterprise of England’
Erik XIV, King of Sweden: marriage negotiations
‘Erophilus’
Essex, 1st Earl of see Devereux, Walter
Essex, 2nd Earl of see Devereux, Robert
Essex, Frances, Countess of
Essex House, London
Euston Hall, Suffolk
Felton, John
Fenelon, Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe–, French ambassador; after Huguenot massacre
Fenotus, John Anthony
Ferdinand I, Emperor
Feria, Count of, Spanish ambassador
Fernel (physician)
Fitton, Sir Edward
Fitton, Mary
Fitzalan, Henry, Earl of Arundel
Fitzgerald, Gerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
Fitzwilliam, Hugh
Fleet prison
Fletcher, Richard
Foix, Paul de, French ambassador
food; feast; gifts; precautions; serving
Fortescue, Anthony
Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire
Four Foster Children of Desire, The
France: on accession of EI; and Scotland; Huguenot massacres; civil war; English invasion; see also Catherine de Medici; Paris; Stafford, Sir Edward
Frances (ship)
Franchiotto, Captain
Franckwell, Millicent
François II (formerly de Valois, Dauphin), King of France
François, Duke of Alençon see
Fraser’s Magazine
Gargrave, Thomas
Garner, Robert
Garnet, Henry
Gascoigne, George; ‘Deep Desire’s Loyalty’; Masque of Zabeta; Princely Pleasures at the Court of Kenilworth
Gawdy, Philip
Geneva
Gheeraerts, Marcus
Gifford, Gilbert
Goldborne, James
Goodman, Godfrey, Bishop
Gorboduc (Norton and Sackville)
Gower, George
Greene, Abraham
greensickness
Greenwich Palace; Anjou at; Christmas, 1584; chapel royal; stables
Gregory XIII, Pope
Grene, John
Greville, Fulke
Grey, Lady Elizabeth
Grey, Henry, 6th Earl of Kent
Grey, Lady Jane
Grey, Lord John of Pyrgo
Grey, Lord John (marshal at Tilbury)
Grey, Katherine see Seymour
Grey, Mary (later Keyes)
Guarras, Antonio de
Guildhall
Guise, Charles de, Cardinal de Lorraine
Guise, Francis, 2nd Duke of
Guise, Henry, 3rd Duke of
Gyllenstierna, Nils
Hacket, William
Hall, Hugh
Hampton Court Palace; Henry VIII and; ‘Paradise Chamber’; Christmas, 1568–9
Hancock, William
Hanworth, Middlesex
Harding, Thomas
Harington, Isabella
Harington, John
Harington, Sir John: baptism; translates Ariosto; in EI’s last months; letter to Portman; letter to wife; A New Discourse…: The Metamorphosis of Ajax; Tract on the Succession to the Crown; quoted
Harrison, Thomas
Hastings, Henry, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
Hastings, Katherine see Dudley, Katherine (later Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon)
Hatf
ield, Hertfordshire
Hatton, Sir Christopher; appearance and career; relations with EI; rumours re; assassination attempt; and death of MS; death
Havering Palace, Essex
Hawkins, Sir John
Hemingway, John
Heneage, Sir Thomas
Henri II, King of France
Henri III, King of France: as Duke of Anjou; King
Henri IV (Henri of Navarre), King of France
Henry VIII, King of England; Catholic view of; and Palaces; portrait; death; will
Hentzner, Paul
Herbert, Sir John
Herle, William
Hertford, Edward Seymour, Earl of
Hertford Castle
Hesse
Hilliard, Nicholas
Holbein, Hans
Holinshed, Raphael
Holland, Thomas
Holstein, Duke of
Holt, Father William
Holyrood Palace
Hood, William
Hopton, Sir Owen
Horne, Robert, Bishop
Howard, Catherine, Countess of Nottingham
Howard, Charles, 1st Earl of Nottingham see Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of
Howard, Douglas (later Sheffield, then Stafford), Lady; in Leicester’s Commonwealth
Howard, Frances
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey
Howard, Lord Henry
Howard, Thomas, Lord: against Armada
Howard, Thomas see Norfolk, 4th Duke of
Howard, William, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
Huguenots: 1562 massacre; 1572 massacre; subsequently
Huick, Dr Robert / William
humours, the four
Hunsdon, George, Lord: in Hesse
Hunsdon, Henry Carey, Lord
Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of
Huntingdon, Katherine, Countess of see Dudley, Katherine (later Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon)
Hutton, Matthew, Archbishop of York
‘Instrument of an Association…’ (Bond of Association)
Ireland: H. Sidney in; Tyrone rebellion; appointment of Lord Deputy; Yellow Ford massacre; RDev in; Spanish invade
Irishmen, immigrants
Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain
Italy
James IV, King of Scotland
James V, King of Scotland
James VI, King of Scotland; birth; baptism; as King; on death of MS; subsequently; correspondence with Cecil; on death of EI; accession to English throne; as King James I
Jesuits: in England; propaganda; on Continent
jewels; Mary I’s; B. Parry’s
Jones, Robert
Jonson, Ben
Jonson, Sir Francis
Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
Kent, Henry Grey, 6th Earl of
Keyes, Thomas
King’s evil
Knollys, Anne
Knollys, Dudley
Knollys, Elizabeth
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