by John Cooper
Russell, Master, 1
Sable Island, 1
Sadler, Sir Ralph, 1
Sagres, Drake’s raid, 1
St Aldegonde, Philip Marnix, Baron de, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Bartholomew’s Day massacre (1572): Anjou marriage negotiations, 1;
Anjou’s role, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Beale’s account, 1, 2;
Beale’s presence, 1, 2;
Blois treaty, 1;
events, 1;
influence, 1;
Marlowe’s play, 1, 2;
Sassetti’s account, 1;
Sidney’s presence, 1;
Stranger community in London, 1;
Walsingham’s presence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Walsingham’s response to, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Mary Aldermanbury, 1, 2
Salesbury, Thomas, 1, 2
San Lorenzo (ship), 1
Sander, Nicholas, 1, 2, 3
Santa Cruz, Albaro de Bazán, Marquis of, 1, 2, 3
Sassetti, Tomasso, 1, 2
Savage, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Saxton, Christopher, 1
Scadbury, Kent, 1, 2, 3
Scot, Reginald, 1
Scott, Sir Thomas, 1
Scudamore (agent of Walsingham), 1
Sea Beggars, 1, 2
Sebastian, King of Portugal, 1
Secotan nation, 1, 2, 3
secret writing, 1
Seething Lane, London: household, 1, 2;
interrogations at, 1;
Irish reports, 1, 2, 3;
site, 1;
Walsingham’s cousin Thomas, 1;
Walsingham’s study, 1, 2, 3, 4;
work on conspiracies, 1;
work on Dover fortifications, 1
Seymour, Lord Henry, 1
Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3
Sherwin, Ralph, 1, 2
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of (Bess of Hardwick), 1
Shrewsbury, George Talbot, 6th
Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sidney, Elizabeth, 1
Sidney, Sir Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sidney, Sir Philip: advice on reading, 1;
Arcadia, 1;
on Commons committee, 1;
death, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
debts, 1, 2, 3;
grave, 1;
on Irish ruling council, 1;
Lane’s letters, 1;
‘Letter to Queen Elizabeth’, 1;
marriage, 1, 2;
memorial, 1;
part in ‘triumph’, 1;
relationship with Walsingham, 1, 2;
St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, 1, 2
Sidney, Sir Robert, 1
Simier, Jean de, 1, 2, 3
Smerwick, Co Kerry, 1, 2
Smith, Captain John, 1
Smith, Sir Thomas: on Alençon marriage negotiations, 1, 2;
Blois treaty negotiations, 1;
career, 1, 2, 3, 4;
death, 1;
on French food, 1;
Irish colonisation, 1;
life during Mary’s reign, 1;
at Paris embassy, 1;
privy council, 1;
on royal progresses, 1;
son’s death, 1, 2;
on Walsingham’s embassy, 1
Smith, Thomas (son of above), 1, 2
Smithfield, 1
Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of (Lord Protector), 1, 2, 3
Somerville, John, 1
Spanish Armada, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Spenser, Edmund, 1, 2
spies: agents, 1;
Berden’s career, 1;
Catholic missionary priests, 1;
Cromwell’s secret service, 1;
Marlowe’s career, 1;
motives, 1;
Parry’s career, 1;
payment, 1, 2, 3;
in prisons, 1;
Stafford’s career, 1, 2;
Standen’s career, 1;
Walsingham’s network, 1, 2, 3, 4
Spranger, Bartholomeus, 1
Squire, Edward, 1
Squirrel (ship), 1
Stafford, Sir Edward: agent for Spain and the Guise, 1, 2;
English ambassador in Paris, 1, 2, 3;
on Gifford, 1;
Hakluyt’s chaplaincy, 1, 2;
Joinville agreement, 1;
payments from Spain and the Guise, 1;
relationship with Walsingham, 1, 2, 3, 4;
reports on English Catholics, 1;
reports on propaganda, 1;
reports on Spain, 1;
reports on Spanish Armada, 1;
surveillance of Morgan, 1;
treasonable activities, 1, 2, 3, 4
Standen, Anthony, 1, 2, 3
Stapleton, Thomas, 1
Star Chamber, 1, 2
Starkey, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Stow, John, 1, 2
Strickland, William, 1
Stubbs, John, 1, 2, 3
Stucley, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4
Suffolk, Henry Grey, Duke of, 1
surveillance: Babington plot, 1;
coping strategies, 1, 2;
effectiveness, 1;
Elizabeth’s reign, 1, 2, 3;
English Catholic community, 1, 2, 3;
Henry VIII’s reign, 1;
Mary’s reign, 1, 2;
in Paris, 1;
prison spies, 1
Sussex, Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of, 1
Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sutton, Robert, 1
Swiftsure (ship), 1
Tamworth, John, 1
Throckmorton, Francis: A Discoverie of Treasons, 1, 2;
arrest, 1, 2, 3;
character, 1, 2;
confessions, 1, 2;
education, 1, 2;
execution, 1, 2, 3;
family background, 1, 2;
Mary Queen of Scots’ correspondence, 1, 2, 3;
propaganda concerning, 1, 2, 3, 4;
religious views, 1;
Spanish invasion plans, 1, 2;
tortured, 1, 2, 3, 4
Throckmorton, George, 1
Throckmorton, Sir John, 1, 2
Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, 1
Throckmorton, Sir Robert, 1
Throckmorton, Thomas, 1
Throckmorton family, 1, 2
Throckmorton plot, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Thynne, Sir John, 1
Tichborne, Chidiock, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tiger (ship), 1, 2, 3
Tilbury, Essex, 1, 2, 3
Tilney, Charles, 1
Tilney, Edmund, 1, 2
Tomson, Laurence, 1
torture: of couriers, 1;
Elizabeth’s view of, 1;
justification of, 1;
Owen’s death, 1;
Parry’s confession, 1;
in Rheims, 1;
Roscarrock and Sherwin, 1, 2;
threat of, 1, 2, 3;
Throckmorton, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Walsingham’s use of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tower of London: gunpowder magazine, 1;
‘holy maid of Kent’ in, 1;
torture, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Walsingham’s uncle’s lieutenancy, 1, 2, 3
Tregian, Francis, 1, 2
Tremayne, Edmund, 1, 2, 3
Trenchard, George, 1
Trent, Council of, 1
Trithemius, Johannes, 1
Turkey Company, 1
Turner, Peter, 1
Tutbury Castle, 1
Tyburn, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tyler, Wat, 1
Tyrell, Anthony, 1
Ulster: colonising expedition (1570s), 1, 2;
Old English colonies, 1;
O’Neill rebellion, 1, 2;
plantation policy, 1, 2, 3;
Stucley’s mission, 1
Upnor Castle, Kent, 1, 2
Valdés, Don Pedro de, 1
Verstegan, Richard, 1
Victory (ship), 1
Virginia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wade, Christopher
, 1
Wallop, Sir Henry, 1, 2, 3
Walshe, Nicholas, 1
Walsingham, Anne, Lady (wife of Edmund), 1
Walsingham, Anne (née Barnes, first wife), 1
Walsingham, Christiana (sister), 1, 2
Walsingham, Sir Edmund (uncle), 1, 2, 3
Walsingham, Elizabeth (sister), 1, 2
Walsingham, Frances (daughter), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Walsingham, Sir Francis: birth, 1, 2;
baptism, 1;
childhood, 1, 2;
education, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
exile, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
elected to parliament, 1, 2, 3;
first marriage, 1;
second marriage, 1;
undercover work for the crown, 1;
Ridolfiinterrogation, 1;
ambassador to France, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
queen’s marriage negotiations (Anjou), 1;
treaty of Blois, 1;
St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, 1, 2;
principal secretary to the queen, 1, 2, 3, 4;
custody of the privy seal, 1, 2;
privy council, 1, 2, 3, 4;
spymaster (see also spies), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
headquarters at Seething Lane (see also Seething Lane), 1, 2;
Netherlands policy, 1, 2, 3;
embassy to Low Countries, 1;
queen’s marriage negotiations (Alençon), 1;
embassy to France, 1;
concern about Catholic missions in England, 1, 2, 3;
work against Catholic conspiracies, 1, 2;
knighted, 1, 2;
chancellor of the Garter, 1;
responsibility for queen’s safety, 1, 2;
recusancy policies, 1, 2;
investigation of Mary Queen of Scots, 1;
concern about English exiles, 1;
Turkish alliance plan, 1, 2;
Throckmorton plot, 1, 2, 3;
use of torture, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Somerville plot, 1;
‘preserving the queen’s person’ (bond of association), 1;
work with ciphers and secret writing, 1;
work on Mary Queen of Scots’ correspondence, 1, 2, 3;
Babington plot, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
trial of Mary Queen of Scots, 1;
execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 1, 2;
new world projects, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Irish policies, 1, 2;
Netherlands policy, 1;
intelligence reports of Spanish invasion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
work on fortifications, 1;
Dover fortifications, 1, 2;
strategy against Armada, 1;
concern for English succession, 1;
death, 1, 2
FINANCES: customs revenues, 1, 2;
debts, 1, 2, 3, 4;
duchy of Lancaster chancellorship, 1;
expenses of embassy to Low Countries, 1, 2;
expenses of French embassy, 1;
first marriage, 1;
Frobisher investment, 1;
funding for Gilbert’s expedition, 1;
grant for security services, 1, 2;
Irish investments, 1;
loans, 1;
mining interests, 1;
Muscovy Company investments, 1;
principal secretary’s pay, 1;
sale of lands, 1;
son-in-law’s debts, 1, 2, 3;
will, 1
HEALTH: death, 1;
diet, 1;
eyesight, 1, 2;
last illness, 1;
periods of illness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
physicians, 1, 2, 3;
recovery after return from Paris, 1;
urinary infection, 1, 2, 3
HOUSES: Barn Elms, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
estates, 1;
Foot’s Cray, 1, 2, 3, 4;
the Papey, 1;
Parkbury, 1, 2;
Saint Marceau (embassy), 1, 2, 3, 4;
Seething Lane, 1, 2, 3, 4
PERSON: character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
children, 1, 2, 3, 4;
dedications to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
dress, 1, 2, 3;
falconry, 1, 2;
gardening, 1, 2;
image of, 1;
influence, 1, 2, 3;
journal, 1;
languages, 1, 2, 3;
library, 1;
music, 1, 2;
name remaining, 1;
nickname, 1;
papers, 1, 2, 3, 4;
portraits, 1, 2;
postal system, 1;
sense of humour, 47;
servants, 1, 2, 3;
theatre, 1;
tomb, 1;
will, 1, 2, 3;
wine, 1;
working day, 1
RELATIONSHIPS: see Burghley, Dee, Elizabeth I, Leicester, Mary Stuart, Sidney, Stafford
RELIGIOUS VIEWS: attitude to Prayer Book, 1;
bond of association, 1;
Calvinism, 1, 2, 3;
Calvinist or Puritan, 1;
education at Cambridge, 1;
political creed, 1;
Puritanism, 1, 2, 3, 4;
statement in will, 1;
support for Stranger community, 1
Walsingham, James (grandfather), 1, 2, 3
Walsingham, Joyce (mother), 1, 2, 3, 4
Walsingham, Mary (daughter), 1
Walsingham, Mary (sister), 1, 2
Walsingham, Thomas (first cousin), 1, 2
Walsingham, Thomas (second cousin), 1, 2
Walsingham, Thomas (great-greatgrandfather), 1
Walsingham, Ursula (née St Barbe, second wife): court life, 1, 2;
daughters, 1, 2, 3, 4;
first husband, 1;
homes, 1, 2;
Leicester connection, 1;
marriage to Walsingham, 1, 2;
in Paris, 1, 2;
relationship with Dee, 1;
sister’s marriage, 1;
sons, 1;
Walsingham’s death, 1;
Walsingham’s will, 1, 2;
will, 1
Walsingham, William (father), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, Earl of, 1, 2, 3
Waterhouse, Sir Edward, 1, 2
Watson, Thomas, 1
Waugh, Evelyn, 1
Wentworth, Peter, 1, 2
Westmorland, Charles Neville, Earl of, 1
Wharton, Lord, 1
White, Eleanor, 1
White, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wight, Isle of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wilkes, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
William, Prince of Orange: army, 1;
assassination, 1, 2, 3, 4;
English mission, 1;
information about Don John’s invasion plans, 1;
relationship with Elizabeth, 1, 2, 3, 4;
relationship with Walsingham, 1, 2, 3, 4;
revolt, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Sea Beggars, 1
Williams, Walter, 1, 2, 3
Wilson, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Windebank, Sir Thomas, 1, 2
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, 1, 2
Woodville, Elizabeth, 1
Worseley, Sir Richard, 1
Wray, Sir Christopher, 1
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: career, 1;
execution, 1;
rebellion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Venetian support for, 1
Wyclif, John, 1
Youghal, Co Cork, 1
Young, Thomas, Archbishop of York, 1
