Elizabeth and Leicester

Alençon, François, Duke of: appearance ; religion; titles; first question of suit to QE; Netherlands involvement ; suit to QE resumed; Simier’s mission ; arrival in England; relationship with QE ; QE’s virginity ; English view of ; marriage articles; opinion of QE; return to England ; QE’s promise and refusal; money for Netherlands campaign; departure for Netherlands ; Netherlands sovereignty; death

ambassadors: French , see also Castelnau, Fénelon; Imperial (Habsburg), see also Chapuys; Scottish, see also Maitland; Spanish , see also de Quadra, de Silva, de Spes, Feria, Mendoza (Bernardino de); Venetian (in England) ; Venetian (in Madrid) ; Venetian (in Paris)

Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton)

Anjou, Duke of, see Henri

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Anne of Cleves, Queen

Arran, James Hamilton, second Earl of

Arundel, Henry FitzAlan, nineteenth Earl of

Ashley, Kat (Champernowne): family background; education of Elizabeth; Seymour’s conspiracy; evidence on Seymour’s behaviour; First Lady of the Bedchamber; concern for QE’s reputation; death

Bedford, Francis Russell, second Earl of

Blount, Thomas: background; correspondence with RD ; investigation of Amy’s death

Boleyn, Anne, Queen: family background ; education; Henry’s courtship; status at court ; marriage; coronation; birth of daughter Elizabeth; relationship with Mary; miscarriage; relationship with daughter; blamed for Henry’s decisions; accusations against ; in Tower; marriage annulled; execution ; grave

Borgarucci (or Borgherini), Dr Giulio

Bothwell, James Hepburn, fourth Earl of

Boulogne, recapture of

Bryan, Margaret, Lady

Cadiz: Drake’s raid; Essex’s expedition

Calendars of State Papers Calvin, John

Camden, William: on relationship of QE and RD; on QE’s character; on RD’s character; on Amy’s death; on QE and marriage ; on RD’s influence on QE ; on Norfolk; on Walsingham; on Hatton; on death of Essex; on Simier ; on RD’s marriage ; on Bond of Association; on Leicester’s Commonwealth; on RD in Netherlands; on QE and Mary’s execution; on Tilbury speech; on alleged plan to make RD Lieutenant Governor ; on RD’s death; on QE’s attitude to money

Carlos, Don (son of Philip )

Castelnau, Michel de, Sieur de Mauvissière

Castiglione, Baldassare

Catherine de Medici, Queen Regent of France: regency for sons; on slander; Huguenot rebellion; sons’ marriage proposals ; jewellery; St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; Alençon’s death

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia

Cavendish, Elizabeth

Cecil, William, Lord Burghley: family background; character; education; religion; secretary to John Dudley; opinion of RD’s marriage; list of RD’s associates ; RD’s letters ; relationship with RD ; relationship with Elizabeth ; Elizabeth’s accession ; state secretary; QE’s marriage question; Scottish mission ; Amy Dudley’s death ; Throckmorton correspondence ; on QE’s childbearing potential; RD’s Scottish marriage plan; on Howards; support for Habsburg marriage; memoranda comparing archduke and RD; relationship with Norfolk ; on QE and RD ; policy towards Mary, Queen of Scots; casket letters; plot against ; Ridolfi plot; privy council meetings; influence in government ; Burghley title; Knight of the Garter; Ridolfi plot ; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; daughter’s marriage; view of Hatton; on royal progresses ; Irish policy; guardianship of Devereux children; view of Alençon suit; relationship with Lettice; accusations against; Leicester’s Commonwealth; Netherlands policy; Mary’s execution; banished from court; response to Lieutenant Governor proposal; Arthur Dudley story; death; fictional treatment of

Chamberlain, Sir Thomas

Champernowne, Kat, see Ashley

Charles, Archduke of Austria

Charles , king of England and Scotland

Charles , Emperor: rule; aunt’s divorce; question of Elizabeth’s marriage; son Philip’s marriage ; abdication; death

Charles , King of France

Charlotte, Princess of Orange

Chastelard, Pierre de

Christina, Queen of Sweden

Churchill, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

Clinton, Geoffrey de

Cornbury, RD’s death

Dacre, Lady Margaret

Darnley, Henry Stewart, Earl of: family background; appearance and character; religion; marriage to Mary; murder of Rizzio; death ; brother’s marriage

Denbigh, Robert Dudley, Lord (RD’s son), see Dudley

de Quadra, Alvaro: on relationship between QE and RD ; on Amy’s death ; on QE’s childbearing ; on QE’s illness; death

de Silva, Diego Guzman

Derby, Henry Stanley, fourth Earl of

Devereux, Dorothy, see Perrot

Devereux, Robert, see Essex

Devereux, Walter, see Essex

Diana, Princess of Wales

Douglas, Lady Margaret, see Lennox

Dublin, Archbishop of

Dudley, Ambrose (RD’s brother), Earl of Warwick: appearance and character ; Kett rebellion; titles ; imprisonment in Tower ; trial and sentence; release from Tower; revenues; French campaign; Master of the Ordnance; marriages; QE’s coronation; earldom of Warwick; Scottish marriage proposal; French campaign ; Scots inquiry; campaign against northern earls; interest in exploration; QE’s Warwick visit; godfather to RD’s son; rumours about RD; health; RD’s wedding to Lettice Knollys; portrait; RD’s son; Netherlands campaign; trial of Mary ; intermediary role after Mary’s execution; RD’s funeral; death; tomb

Dudley, Amy (Robsart, RD’s wife): family background; appearance and character; marriage; visiting RD in Tower; relationship with husband; childless; lands; lifestyle ; at court; rumours concerning ; death ; inquiry into her death; inquest ; funeral; suicide theory; murder theory; illness theory ; fictional treatments of

Dudley, Anne (Russell), Countess of Warwick

Dudley, Arthur: story of birth ; story of childhood; story of travels; story of interview with RD; arrival in Spain ; taken to be a spy or stooge; life in Spain ; likelihood of story

Dudley, Carlo (RD’s grandson)

Dudley, Edmund (RD’s grandfather)

Dudley, Elizabeth (Grey, RD’s grandmother)

Dudley, Guildford (RD’s brother)

Dudley, Henry (RD’s brother)

Dudley, Jane (Guildford, RD’s mother)

Dudley, John, Earl of Warwick, Duke of Northumberland (RD’s father): childhood; marriage; career ; relationship with King Henry ; children ; lands; relationship with Seymour brothers ; London home; titles; relationship with King Edward ; Kett rebellion ; rise to power; children’s marriages; illness; King Edward’s last illness and death; expedition in favour of Lady Jane Grey; proclamation of Mary as Queen; arrest; in Tower ; trial; recantation ; last letter; execution ; grave; attainder; reputation

Dudley, John (RD’s brother), Earl of Warwick: marriage; title; career; expedition to secure Mary; in Tower; trial; release from Tower; death

Dudley, John (RD’s kinsman)

Dudley, John Sutton, first Baron (RD’s great-grandfather)

Dudley, Katherine (RD’s sister), see Hastings

Dudley, Lettice (RD’s wife), see Knollys

Dudley, Mary (RD’s sister), see Sidney

Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester: birth ; childhood; education ; first meeting with Elizabeth; at court ; Kett rebellion; military career; marriage to Amy Robsart; court career; sent to secure Mary ; proclamation of Lady Jane Grey as Queen; arrest; imprisonment in Tower; father’s execution; trial and sentence; release from Tower; mother’s death; life after release; access to revenues; French campaign; QE’s accession ; Master of Horse to QE ; QE’s coronation; Knight of the Garter; talk of marriage to QE ; wife’s death ; peerage question ; Spanish sponsorship ; QE’s illness; Lord Protector proposalprivy councillor; Scottish marriage plan; Earl of Leicester; quarrel with Norfolk; flirtation with Lettice Knollys; Scots inquiry; plot against Cecil; support for Norfolk’s marriage to Mary; rebellion of northern earls; Ridolfi plot; influence; Norfolk’s release ; policy towards Mary, Queen of Scots; view of Hatton ; affair with Douglass ; wish for children ; story of secret wedding ; birth of son by Douglass ; entertainment of QE at Kenilworth (); rumours about; Irish policy ; taking the waters at Buxton ; marriage to Lettice Knollys; wedding ceremonies; Netherlands policy; view of Alençon suit ; birth of son by Lettice; married life ; dynastic scheming; son’s death; Leicester’s Commonwealth; religious conference; thoughts of retirement; Netherlands campaign; governor general of Netherlands ; execution of Mary ; Tilbury command; Lieutenant Governor proposal; death; funeral ; tomb; will ; fictional treatments of

FINANCES: access to revenues; accounts; business ventures; debts; dress costs; export licence; ‘farm’ of sweet wines; funds for Netherlands expedition; gifts from Elizabeth; household; living beyond means; Netherlands campaign; pension; rights over customs duties; will

HEALTH: broken bones; corns ; diet; eyesight; fever health; last illness; mentioned in letters ; ‘the stone’; taking the waters at Buxton

INTERESTS: exploration; gardens; horsemanship; science; theatre

LANDS: building projects; gifts from Elizabeth; Norfolk rental plans; sale to raise funds for Elizabeth; volunteered sale under Mary

LETTERS: to Blount; to Cecil ; to court official in Netherlands; to Douglass,

Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester (cont.) ; to Elizabeth ; to Forster; to Hatton ; to Heneage; to Morton; to Shrewsbury ; to Sussex; to Throckmorton; to Walsingham ; to Warwick burghers; to Wood

PERSON: appearance ; character; diet ; dress; family; motto; nicknames ; portraits ; symbols

RELATIONSHIP WITH ELIZABETH: before her accession; flowering of; Amy’s death; love and sex; courtly love ; question of marriage ; earldom; flirtations; favourite courtier; religious differences; estrangements ; closeness ; twin portraits; Kenilworth entertainment; her response to his marriage ; Netherlands campaign; her response to his death; fictional treatments

RELIGION: books dedicated to; conversion suggestion; Denbigh church; different from Elizabeth’s; at Mary’s accession; Netherlands policy ; prayer; Protestant hero; puritanism; reading ; will

Dudley, Robert (RD’s ‘base’ son by Douglass Sheffield): birth; godparents; childhood ; father’s death ; inheritance; appearance as a young man; marriages; banished from court; voyages ; knighted; claim to legitimacy; conversion to Catholicism; career in Tuscany; known as Duke of Northumberland; writings; descendants

Dudley, Robert, Lord Denbigh (RD’s son by Lettice)

Dudley family: background; motto; relationship with Tudors ; power; emblem ; end of dynasty

Dugdale, Sir William

Earl of Leicester’s Men

Edinburgh: peace treaty (); Mary and Bothwell

Edward , King of England

Edward , King of England: christening ; babyhood; education ; household ; religion; in family portrait; father’s death; coronation; reign; court; Thomas Seymour’s plot; fall of Somerset; at RD’s wedding; health; rumours of poisoning; last illness; will ; death; succession

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Elizabeth , Queen of England: birth ; babyhood; childhood ; brother’s christening; education; mother’s death; bastardy ; marriage prospects ; first meeting with Robert; at father’s court; place in father’s will; father’s death; at Chelsea ; relationship with Seymour ; life with Dennys; illness ; at brother’s court; London visits; status at court ; succession question; sister Mary’s accession; at sister’s

court; Wyatt rebellion ; imprisonment in Tower ; house arrest in Woodstock ; return to Hatfield; Philip of Spain’s policy towards her ; Dudley plot; Duke of Savoy marriage question; King of Sweden marriage question ; plans for future government ; accession ; advisers; privy council ; appointments; entry into London ; coronation; marriage question; court ; government ; talk of marriage to RD ; Philip of Spain’s suit; suitors; Amy Dudley’s death ; RD’s peerage question ; smallpox; succession question; marriage plans for Mary, Queen of Scots; French wars; flirtation with Heneage; response to Rizzio’s murder; response to Mary’s flight; response to plot against Cecil; rebellion of northern earls ; Valois suitors ; papal bulls against ; Accession Day; Norfolk’s execution; Warwick visit; Kenilworth visits ; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; policy towards Mary, Queen of Scots; relationship with Hatton; RD’s marriage to Lettice Knollys ; Alençon suit ; Netherlands policy; news of RD’s marriage; Throckmorton plot; assassination attempt ; new favourites; Netherlands campaign; execution of Mary; Spanish Armada; Tilbury speech ; plan to make RD Lieutenant Governor; response to RD’s death; RD’s will ; fictional treatments of

FINANCES: debts; household; land holdings; progresses

HEALTH: energy -health; illness in cold weather; illness over execution of Norfolk; mentioned in letters; nerve storms; pregnancy question; pregnancy risks ; smallpox; swelling of face and body; toothache

LETTERS: to Alençon ; to Ambrose Dudley ; to father; to Mary Queen of Scots; to Queen Katherine ; to RD ; to Shrewsbury; to Simier; to Somerset; to Walsingham

PERSON: appearance ; beds; character ; diet ; dress ; equestrian skill; falcon badge; motto; phoenix emblem; poems; portraits ; progresses; rumours of secret pregnancies ; virginity

RELATIONSHIP WITH DUDLEY, see under Dudley (relationship with Elizabeth)

RELATIONSHIPS: with father ; with favourites ; with Mary, Queen of Scots ; with mother; with sister

RELIGION: conversion possibility; different from RD’s; instruction in Catholicism; Netherlands policy; ‘new religion’; prayers ; religious views; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre

Elizabeth , Queen of Great Britain

Elizabeth R (BBC TV drama)

Englefield, Sir Francis

Eric , king of Sweden

Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of: parentage; character; relationship with QE ; mother’s letters; mother’s relationship with QE; relationship with RD; at Tilbury; Armada victory celebrations; Cadiz expedition; execution ; tomb; fictional treatments of

Essex, Walter Devereux, first Earl of

Family of Henry , The (painting)

Fénelon, Bertrand Salignac de la Mothe

Ferdinand de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Feria, Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Duke of

Francis , King of France

Fraser’s Magazine

Froude, James Anthony

Gentleman Pensioners

George, Prince (husband of Queen Anne)

Grey, Lady Frances, Marchioness of Dorset, Duchess of Suffolk (Lady Jane’s mother)

Grey, Henry, Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk (Lady Jane’s father)

Grey, Lady Jane, Queen of England: at Sudeley; marriage; pregnancy; proclaimed Queen ; in Tower; execution ; grave

Grey, Lady Katherine, see Hertford

Guildford, Sir Edward

Hamlet, see Shakespeare

Hastings, see Huntingdon

Hatfield House: Elizabeth’s childhood ; Mary at; Elizabeth’s residence during Mary’s reign ; Elizabeth’s accession

Hatton, Christopher: family background ; appearance; arrival at court; relationship with QE ; at Ely Place; relationship with RD ; on QE’s progresses; view of Alençon suit ; Mary’s view of; attitude to RD as Lieutenant Governor ; death

Henri , King of France

Henri , King of France (earlier Duke of Anjou)

Henri , King of France

Henrietta Maria, Queen

Henry , King of England

Henry , King of England: character ; accession; court; Kenilworth lodgings; sports; divorce; marriage to Anne Boleyn; birth of Elizabeth ; Katherine’s death; relationship with daughters ; courtship of Jane Seymour; execution of Anne Boleyn; marriages; birth of son ; French wars; portraits; will; health; death; succession

Henry, Prince of Wales

Hertford, Sir Edward Seymour, Earl of

Hertford, Lady Katherine (Grey), Countess of

Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham

Howard, Katherine, Queen

Howard, Lord William, first Baron Howard of Effingham

Hunsdon, Henry Carey, first Lord

Huntingdon, Francis Hastings, second Earl of

Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, third Earl of: family background; marriage; Lord President of the Council in the north; claim to throne; on Amy’s death; father’s death; Mary’s imprisonment; guardianship of Devereux children; RD’s funeral

Huntingdon, Katherine (Dudley, RD’s sister), Countess of: marriage; relationship with QE; father-in-law ; husband’s title; illness ; at Kenilworth; household

Isabella, Queen of England

Isabella of Castile, Queen

James (VI), King of England and Scotland: birth; mother’s abdication; Scottish rule; English gifts to; marriage question; mother’s execution ; relationship with Essex; Spanish Armada; accession; Leicester inheritance case ; Dudley estates; favourites

James , King of England and Scotland

John, Duke (brother of Eric of Sweden)

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

Journal of matters of state (anon. tract)

Julio, Dr, see Borgarucci

Katherine of Aragon, Queen: education ; marriage; daughter; connection with Jane Dudley; divorce; death; marriage declared valid

Kenilworth (Scott)

Kenilworth Castle: John Dudley’s ownership; QE’s gift to RD ; RD at; RD’s plans; QE’s visits ; RD’s marriage to Lettice; RD’s last illness; RD’s funeral ; RD’s will; sequestered by crown

Knollys, Sir Francis

Knollys, Katherine (Carey)

Knollys, Lettice, Viscountess Hereford, Countess of Essex, Countess of Leicester (RD’s wife): family background; appearance ; character; first marriage ; flirtation with RD ; children ; relationship with RD; marriage to RD; QE’s response to marriage; birth of RD’s son; finances; married life; son’s death ; RD’s death; RD’s funeral; RD’s tomb; RD’s will; third marriage ; young Dudley’s case ; death; tomb; fictional treatments of

Knollys, Sir William

Laws and Statutes of Geneva

Leicester, Earl of, see Dudley (Robert), Montfort (Simon de), Sidney (Sir Robert)

Leicester’s Commonwealth (pamphlet): publication; authorship ; allegations against RD ; on Amy’s death ; on RD’s son; editions ; reprinted

Lennox, Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of

Lennox, Matthew Stewart, fourth Earl of

Leslie, John, see Ross, Bishop of

Lincoln, Henry Clinton, second Earl of

Maitland of Lethington, William

Margaret, Regent of the Netherlands

Margaret (Tudor, sister of Henry ), Queen of Scotland

Marguerite of Navarre

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of

Mary , Queen of England: childhood ; education; bastardy ; mother’s death; relationship with sister ; at father’s court; marriage prospects; brother’s christening; in family portrait; father’s death; at brother’s court ; religion; brother’s illness; succession question ; proclaimed Queen; reign ; marriage to Philip of Spain ; Wyatt rebellion; imprisonment of sister; supposed pregnancies ; burnings of Protestants; childlessness, ; Philip’s departure; sister’s marriage question; succession ; last illness; will ; death; funeral

Mary , Queen of Great Britain

Mary, Queen of Scots: claim to English throne; heir; appearance; marriage to Francis ; view of Elizabeth ; death of husband Francis; remarriage question ; peace treaty issue ; scandals concerning; question of marriage to RD; Darnley’s visit; infatuation with Darnley; marriage to Darnley; pregnancy; relationship with Elizabeth; Rizzio’s murder; birth of son; Darnley’s death ; marriage to Bothwell ; abdication; jewellery; flight to England ; Cecil propaganda against; imprisonment; casket letters; talk of marriage to Norfolk; plotting ; rebellion of northern earls; Anjou marriage question ; Ridolfi plot; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre ; taking the waters at Buxton; new of QE’s suitors; Throckmorton conspiracy; cipher letters; on RD in Netherlands ; Walsingham’s schemes; Babington conspiracy; execution; fictional treatment of

Mary of Guise, Dowager Queen of Scotland

Mary (Tudor, sister of Henry ), Duchess of Suffolk

Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Mauvissière, see Castelnau

Maximilian , Emperor

Mendoza, Bernardino de: on QE’s response to RD’s marriage; on QE’s Alençon marriage plans ; expulsion from England; in Paris

Mendoza, Don Diego de

Merchant Adventurers

Micea, Marco Antonio

Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester

Moray, Lord James Stewart, Earl of

Morton, James Douglas, fourth Earl of

Naunton, Sir Robert: on QE’s accession ; on RD; on QE’s favourites ; on relationship between QE and RD; on Hatton

Netherlands: Spanish wars ; QE’s policy; Alençon’s involvement ; RD’s command; RD’s arrival; RD’s governorship; RD’s campaign ; RD’s departure ; Spanish forces

Norfolk, Thomas Howard, third Duke of

Norfolk, Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of: family background; Knight of the Garter; relationship with RD; relationship with QE ; support for Habsburg marriage ; relationship with Cecil; wives; Scots inquiry; question of marriage to Mary ; plot against Cecil; rebellion of northern earls; in Tower; release from Tower ; Ridolfi plot; in Tower; trial; execution

Norfolk, Thomas Howard, fifth Earl of

Norris, Sir Henry, Baron Norris of Rycote

Norris, Marjorie, Lady

North, Roger, second Baron North

Northampton, Elizabeth, Marchioness of

Northampton, William Parr, Marquess of

Northumberland, Duke of, see Dudley (John)

Northumberland, Henry Percy, ninth Earl of

Norwich: Kett rebellion; QE’s visits

Ormonde, Thomas Butler, tenth Earl of

Oxford, Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of

Palavicino, Sir Horatio

Parliament: reassembled (); declaration on marriage of Henry ; on QE’s marriage ; RD’s seat; role in government ; question of Mary’s marriage ; called by QE; national security acts; conspiracy fears ; execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

Parma, Duke of: Netherlands campaign ; RD’s campaign against ; invasion force; Arthur Dudley story

Parr, Katherine, Queen: relationship with Dudleys; marriage to Henry ; court; religion; relationship with Elizabeth ; marriage to Thomas Seymour ; death

Pembroke, Henry Herbert, second Earl of

Pembroke, Mary (Sidney), Countess of

Pembroke, Sir William Herbert, first Earl of

Perrot, Dorothy (Devereux) Perrot, Thomas

Philip , King of Spain: marriage to Mary ; consort status; dress; Mary’s supposed pregnancy; godfather to Philip Sidney; policy towards Elizabeth ; leaves England; returns to England; French wars; father’s abdication; final departure; suitor to Elizabeth ; favourite; Netherlands wars; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; Irish policy; annexation of Portugal; Throckmorton plot; religious policies; Enterprise of England ; response to execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; Armada ; Arthur Dudley story

Pickering, Sir William

Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (film)

Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (Nichols)

Ralegh, Walter: appearance; arrival at court; relationship with QE ; relationship with RD; marriage; writings

Randolph, Thomas: Cecil’s correspondence; ambassador to Scotland; RD marriage proposal; on Darnley marriage; on Rizzio ; on RD’s quarrel with Norfolk

Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller)

Regnans in Excelsis (papal bull)

Rich, Penelope, Lady

Richard , King of England

Robsart, Amy, see Dudley

Rochford, Jane, Lady

Ross, Bishop of (John Leslie)

Russell, John, Baron

Rutland, Henry Manners, second Earl of

St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

Savoy, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of

Saxony, Duke of (John Frederick )

Seymour, Edward, Earl of Hertford, Duke of Somerset: character; relationship with John Dudley ; career; titles ; religion; Lord Protector; relationship with King Edward; brother’s plot; relationship with Elizabeth; Kett rebellion; in Tower; restoration; execution; widow in Tower

Seymour, Edward (son of Katherine Grey), Lord Beauchamp of Hache

Seymour, Jane, Queen

Seymour, Thomas: appearance and character; marriage to Katherine Parr; relationship with Elizabeth; Katherine’s death; plot against King Edward; execution; grave

Shakespeare, William: birth; on Ely Place; theatrical career ; will; works: As You Like It; Hamlet; Henry ; Midsummer Night’s Dream

Sheffield, Douglass (Howard), Lady: family background; character ; Sheffield marriage; relationship with RD ; Sheffield’s death; secret marriage with RD ; birth of son ; son’s claim to legitimacy ; remarriage

Sheffield, John, second Baron

Shelley-Sidney, Sir John

Shrewsbury, Bess of Hardwick, Countess of

Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, Duke of

Shrewsbury, George Talbot, sixth Earl of: RD’s letters; son’s letters; Buxton spa; Mary’s imprisonment ; RD’s visit; QE’s letters ; RD’s gifts to; letter to QE on RD’s death

Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, seventh Earl of: letters ; Rowland White’s letter

Sidney, Frances (Walsingham)

Sidney, Sir Henry: Edward’s death; marriage; Spanish mission; career; on relationship between QE and RD; wife’s smallpox ; question of marriage between Mary and RD; Ridolfi plot; Irish policy; death of Essex ; death

Sidney, Lady Mary (Dudley, RD’s sister): marriage; QE’s lady of the bedchamber; Habsburg marriage mission; smallpox ; at Kenilworth; family ; view of Alençon suit; death

Sidney, Sir Philip: Philip ’s godson; relationship with RD ; relationship with QE ; writings; Irish policy; in masque; marriage; Netherlands campaign ; death; funeral

Sidney, Sir Robert, Earl of Leicester

Sisson, Rosemary Anne

Southwell, Elizabeth

Stafford, Dorothy, Lady

Stafford, Sir Edward: religion; marriage; French mission; Leicester’s Commonwealth; Arthur Dudley story; passing information to Spain and France; Walsingham’s use of; Robert Dudley’s legitimacy claim

Stafford, Sir William

Stephen, King of England

Succession, Acts of: (); ()

Suffolk, Lady, see Grey (Lady Frances)

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of

Sussex, Anne, Countess of

Sussex, Henry Radcliffe, second Earl of

Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, third Earl of: QE’s views on marriage; attitude to QE’s marriage; Norfolk plot; relationship with RD; on RD’s marriage; death

Talbot, Francis, Lord Talbot

Talbot, Gilbert, see Shrewsbury

Throckmorton, Francis

Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas: on Thomas Seymour; relationship with QE ; correspondence ; on Amy’s death; on question of RD’s marriage ; on question of Mary’s remarriage ; relationship with RD; Scottish policy ; Norfolk marriage question; in Tower; death; nephew’s conspiracy

Tower of London: Elizabeth’s servants in ; Somerset in; King Edward’s death; Lady Jane Grey in; Dudley family in; RD in ; Wyatt in; Elizabeth’s imprisonment; Elizabeth’s coronation; Katherine Grey in ; Throckmorton questioning ; Norfolk in; Ralegh and Bess Throckmorton in

Tree of Commonwealth, The (Dudley)

Very brief and profitable Treatise, A

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham

Virgin Queen, The (BBC TV drama)

Virgin’s Lover, The (novel)

Walsingham, Francis: relationship with RD; Ridolfi plot; influence; RD’s letters ; French marriage question ; St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; Netherlands policy ; secretary of state ; religion; Leicester’s Commonwealth; spies ; agents provocateurs; Babington plot; execution of Mary; on QE’s response to RD’s death; Arthur Dudley story ; death