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1 C.S.P. Foreign, Mary, 537.
2 Ibid. 542.
3 Ibid. 537.
4 Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities (Glasgow, 1905), vol. 1.
1 C.S.P. Span., vol. IV, pt 2, 789.
2 Hall.
3 L. & P., vol. VI, 807.
4 Ibid. vol. VI, 1425.
5 Ibid. vol. VII, 366.
6 Statutes of the Realm, vol. III, quoted in G.R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution (1960), p. 355.
7 L. & P., vol. V, 1485–6. See also Hall and C.S.P. Ven., vol. IV, 822–4.
8 L. & P., vol. VII, 1298.
9 Ibid. vol. VII, 1060.
10 Ibid. vol. VII, 1483.
11 Ibid. vol. VIII, 174.
12 Statutes of the Realm, vol. III, quoted in Elton, Tudor Constitution, p. 6.
13 L. & P., vol. VIII, 174.
14 C.S.P. Span., vol. V, pt 1, 112.
15 L. & P., vol. VIII, 174.
16 Ibid. 339–43, 548, 555, 557.
17 Ibid. 189.
18 C.S.P. Span., vol. V, pt 1, 139, p. 420.
19 L. & P., vol. VIII, 793.
20 Ibid. 846, 909.
21 Ibid. 910, see also 340.
22 Ibid. 554.
23 Ibid. 909, 1044, 1052.
24 C.S.P. Span., vol. V, pt 1, 213, p. 554.
25 Ibid. 238, and L. & P., vol. IX.
26 C.S.P. Span., vol. V, pt 1, 246.
27 L. & P., vol. X, 308.
28 Wriothesley, vol. 1.
29 L. & P., vol. XII, pt 1, 815.
30 Ibid. vol. XIII, pt 1, 274, 338.
31 Ibid. vol. XIII, pt 1, 241, 255, 273, 329, 338; pt 2, 484.
32 Ibid. vol. XIII, pt 2, 622, p. 241.
33 Ibid. vol. XVI, 885.
34 Ibid. 1090.
35 Ibid. 1090.
36 C.S.P. Span., vol. VI, pt 2, 20.
37 L. & P., vol. XVII, 371.
38 Ibid. vol. XVIII, pt 1, 364.
39 State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, ed. A. Clifford, 3 vols (1809), vol. I, p. 129.
40 L. & P., vol. XVIII, pt 1, 509.
41 Ibid. vol. XIX, pt 2, 470.
42 Ibid. vol. XX, pt 1, 90, 91.
43 Ibid. pt 2, 639 (3), 764, 856, 891, 1038.
1 L. & P., vol. XXI, 634.
2 C.S.P. Span., vol. IX, 7 Mar 1547.
3 S.P. Dom., Edward VI, vol. vi.
4 Edward VI.
5 Haynes.
6 Ibid.
7 S.P. Dom, Edward VI, vol. VI.
8 Haynes.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 ibid.
12 Tytler, vol. I.
13 S.P. Dom., Edward VI, vol. VI.
14 Tytler, vol. I.
15 Haynes.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 S.P. Dom., Edward VI, vol. VI.
19 Haynes.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Acts of the Privy Council of England, vol. II.
23 C.S.P. Span., vol. IX, 19 Mar 1549.
24 Haynes.
25 C.S.P. Span., vol. IX, 19 Dec 1549.
26 Ibid. vol. X, 4 Nov 1550, p. 186.
27 Ibid. 1 Mar 1551, p. 230.
28 Ibid. June 1551, p. 299.
29 C.S.P. Foreign, Edward VI, 30 Aug 1551, p. 164.
30 C.S.P. San., vol. X, 6 July 1551, p. 325; 14 Sept 1551, p. 369; 16 Nov 1551, p. 394.
31 C.S.P. Foreign, Edward VI, 11 Mar 1553, p. 255.
32 Ibid. 15 Feb 1553, p. 245.
33 C.S.P. Span., vol. XI, 30 May 1553, p. 46.
34 Edward VI.
35 C.S.P. Span., vol. XI, 11 July 1553, p. 81.
1 Edward VI.
2 Greyfriars Chron.; C.S.P. Span., vol. XI, 6 Aug 1553, p. 152.
3 Ibid. 22 July 1553, p. 114.
4 Ibid. 14 Aug 1553.
5 Ibid. 15 Aug 1553.
6 Ibid. 8 Sept 1553.
7 H.F.M. Prescott, Mary Tudor, p. 212; E.H. Harbison, Rival Ambassadors at the Court of Queen Mary, p. 79.
8 C.S.P. Span., vol. XI, 14 Sept 1553, p. 236.
9 Ibid. 20 Sept 1553, p. 247.
10 Ibid. 12 Oct 1553.
11 Ibid. 12 Oct 1553, p. 291.
12 Ibid. late in Aug 1553, p. 195.
13 Ibid. 12 Oct 1553, p. 292.
14 Ibid. 19 Oct 1553, p. 307.
15 Ibid. 31 Oct 1553, p. 328.
16 Ibid. 4 Nov 1553, pp. 334–5.
17 Ibid. 28 Nov 1553.
18 Ibid. 24 Dec 1553.
19 Ibid. 4 Nov 1553, p. 333.
20 Ibid. 6 Nov 1553, pp. 342–3.
21 Ibid. 20 Nov 1553, p. 372.
22 Ibid. 17 Nov 1553, p. 364.
23 De Noailles to the King of France, 14 Dec 1553, in F.A. Mumby, The Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth, p. 97.
24 Ibid.
25 Harbison, Rival Ambassadors, pp. 121–2.
26 Ibid. pp. 126–7.
27 C.S.P. Span., vol. XII, 24 Feb 1554, p. 125.
28 Ibid. 8 Mar 1554, pp. 139–40.
29 Ibid. 14 Mar 1554.
30 Ibid. 22 Mar 1554, pp. 166–7.
31 Ibid. 27 Mar 1554.
32 Ibid. 22 Apr 1554.
33 Ibid. 3 Apr 1554, p. 201.
34 Ibid. 1 May 1554.
1 Chron. Queen Jane, app. X, John Elder’s letter.
2 C.S.P. Span., vol. XII, 8 Mar 1554.
3 Chron. Queen Jane.
4 C.S.P. Span., vol. XIII, July 1554, p. 11.
5 Ibid. 17 Aug 1554.
6 Ibid. 24 Aug 1554.
7 Ibid. 17 Aug and 18 Sept 1554.
8 Ibid. 14 Nov 1554, p. 90.
9 Ibid. 14 Nov 1554, p. 92.
10 Ibid. p. 104 n.
11 Ibid. Mar/Apr 1555, p. 151.
12 Ibid. Mar/Apr 1555, p. 152.
13 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VI, pt I, 8 Apr 1555.
14 Foxe, vol. VIII.
15 C.S.P. Span., vol. XIII, 24 June 1555.
16 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VI, pt 2, 13 May 1557, p. 1059.
17 Ibid. pt I, 21 Apr 1556.
18 Ibid. pt I, 28 Apr 1556, p. 423.
19 Ibid. pt I, 19 July 1556, p. 532.
20 Ibid. pt 2, 13 May 1557, p. 1060.
21 Ibid. pt I, 9 June 1556.
22 Ibid. pt I, p. 571 n.
23 C.S.P. Span., vol. XIII, 20 Mar 1556.
24 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VI, pt I, 10 Oct 1556.
25 Ibid. pt 2, 27 Dec 1556, p. 887.
26 Ibid. pt 2, 26 Apr 1557.
27 Ibid. pt 3, 29 Oct 1558, p. 1538.
28 C.S.P. Span., vol. XIII, Mar(?) (?) 1558, p. 372.
29 Mumby, Girlhood, pp. 236–8.
30 C.S.P. Ven., vol. XIII, 1 May 1558, pp. 379–80.
31 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VI, pt 3, 29 Oct 1558, p. 1538.
32 Documents from Simancas relating to the Reign of Elizabeth, 1558–68, trans. T. Gonzalez (1865).
33 Machyn.
1 Printed by J.E. Neale in English Historical Review (July 1950), p. 305.
2 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VI, pt 3, 10 Dec 1558.
3 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 21 Nov 1558.
4 Ibid. 14 Dec 1558.
5 Ibid. 14 Dec 1558.
6 Ibid. 14 Dec 1558, p. 9.
7 Ibid. 10 Jan 1559.
8 Ibid. 10 Jan 1559.
9 Ibid. 31 Jan 1559.
10 William Camden, Annals of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
11 Ibid.
12 J.E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, vol. I.
13 Ibid.
14 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 20 Feb 1559.
15 Ibid. 11 Apr 1559, p. 51.
16 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, ed. Victor von Klarwill, pp. 28–9.
17 Ibid. Report of Count von Helfenstein, pp. 31–45.
18 Ibid. pp. 46–7.
19 See Neale, Queen Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, vol. 1.
20 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 11 Apr 1559, p. 49.
21 Ibid. 12 Apr 1559, p. 54.
22 Ibid. 12 Apr 1559, p. 53.
23 Ibid. 18 Apr 1559, p. 57.
24 Ibid. 18 Apr 1559, p. 57.
25 Ibid. 29 Apr 1559, p. 63.
26 Ibid. 10 May 1559, p. 67.
27 C.S.P. Ven., vol. vii, 10 May 1559.
1 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 30 May 1559.
2 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners.
3 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I.
4 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners.
5 Ibid.
6 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 1 July 1559.
7 Forbes, A Full View of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols (1740); see also F.A. Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart.
8 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 1 July 1559, p. 82.
9 Ibid. 7 Sept 1559.
10 Ibid. 7 Sept 1559.
11 Ibid. 2 Oct 1559.
12 Ibid. 2 Oct 1559.
13 Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, pp. 77–9.
14 Haynes; see also Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, p. 67.
15 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners.
16 Ibid.
17 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 13 Nov 1559.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners.
1 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 19 Feb 1560.
2 Ibid. 28 Mar 1560.
3 Ibid. 11 Sept 1560.
4 George Adlard, Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leycester, p. 35.
5 Ibid. p. 36.
6 Ibid. p. 32.
7 Ibid. pp. 36–7.
8 Ibid. pp. 38–9.
9 Haynes.
10 Adlard, Amye Robsart, p. 40.
11 Aird, ‘The Death of Amy Robsart’, English Historical Review, Jan 1956.
12 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, III, 10 Oct 1560.
13 C.S.P. Foreign, Elizabeth, vol. III, 10 Oct 1560.
14 Printed in E.S. Beesley, Queen Elizabeth (1892).
15 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 15 Oct 1560.
16 Hardwicke State Papers, 1501–1726, vol. I, p. 167.
17 Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, p. 153.
18 C.S.P. Foreign, Elizabeth, vol. III, 30 Dec 1560.
19 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 22 Jan 1561.
20 Ibid. 23 Feb 1561.
21 Ibid. 23 Feb 1561, pp. 181–2.
22 Ibid. 25 Mar 1561, pp. 187–8.
23 Ibid. 25 Mar 1561, p. 188.
24 Ibid. 12 Apr 1561, p. 194.
25 Ibid. 5 May 1561, pp. 200–2.
1 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 30 June 1561.
2 See Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, ch. V, for documents.
3 See Hester Chapman, Two Tudor Portraits (1960).
4 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 27 Nov 1561.
5 Ibid. 31 June 1562, pp. 225–6.
6 Ibid. 20 June 1562, p. 248.
7 Ibid. 25 Oct 1562, p. 262.
8 Ibid. 25 Oct 1562, nos 189 and 190, pp. 262–3.
9 Ibid. 25 Oct 1562, nos 189 and 190, p. 263.
10 Ibid. 30 Nov 1562.
11 Neale, Queen Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments, vol. I, p. 94.
12 Ibid. pp. 105–6.
13 Ibid. pp. 109–10.
14 Ibid. pp. 107–9.
15 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 7 Feb 1963, p. 296.
16 Neale, Queen Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments, vol. 1, p. 127.
17 A Letter from Mary Queen of Scots to the Duke of Guise, January, 1562 (Scottish Historical Society, 1904).
18 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 28 Mar 1563, p. 313.
19 Scotland, vol. II, pp. 56–8. See also Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, p. 307.
20 James Melville, Memoirs of His Own Life (1549–93), ed. T. Thomson (Bannatyne Club, 1827).
21 Ibid.
22 Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth, p. 318.
23 Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, p. 378.
24 Ibid. p. 382.
1 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, pp. 173–6.
2 Ibid. pp. 180 ff.
3 Ibid. p. 201.
4 T. Wright, Queen Elizabeth and Her Times, vol. I, pp. 183–5.
5 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 5 May 1565, p. 429.
6 Ibid. 16 June 1565, p. 437; 25 June 1565, p. 439.
7 Scotland, vol. II, 30 Mar 1565.
8 Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia (1824).
9 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 9 June 1565, pp. 435–6.
10 Haynes, p. 444.
11 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 23 July 1565, p. 454; 3 Sept 1565, p. 472.
12 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VII, 19 Feb 1566, p. 374.
13 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 4 Feb 1566, p. 523; 28 Jan 1566, p. 514; 20 Aug 1565; C.S.P. Ven., vol. VII, 1 June 1566, p. 381.
14 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, pp. 240 ff; C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 23 July 1565, pp. 452–3.
15 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, pp. 248–9.
16 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 6 Aug 1565, p. 461.
17 Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, pp. 218 and 229.
18 Ibid. pp. 239–42.
19 Ibid. p. 228.
20 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 13 Aug 1565, pp. 465–6.
21 Wright, Queen Elizabeth and Her Times, vol. 1, pp. 206–7.
22 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 11 Apr 1566, p. 540.
23 Neale, Queen Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, vol. I, p. 136.
24 Ibid., vol. I, p. 140.
25 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 19 Oct 1566, p. 589.
26 Ibid. 26 Oct 1566.
27 Neale, Queen Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, vol. I, p. 142.
28 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. I, 4 Nov 1566, pp. 591–2.
29 Ibid. p. 593.
30 Neale, Queen Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, vol. I, pp. 146–50.
31 Ibid. pp. 163–4.
32 Illustrations of British History, ed. E. Lodge, vol. I, pp. 366–7.
33 Ibid. pp. 368–73; Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, pp. 269, 275 and 295.
34 Ibid.; C.S.P. Ven., vol. VII, 22 Jan 1568, p. 410.
1 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 8 Jan 1569.
2 Ibid. vol. I, 24 Mar 1565, pp. 409–10.
3 François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénélon, Correspondence, ii vols (1827–9), vol. III, pp. 414–20; see also Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham, vol. I, p. 101.
4 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 22 Jan 1571.
5 Ibid. p. 295 n.
6 The Compleat Ambassador, ed. Dudley Digges, p. 97.
7 C.S.P. Dom., Elizabeth, Addenda, vol. VII, pp. 328–32.
8 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 10 May 1571, p. 309.
9 C.S.P. Ven., vol. VII, 7 June 1571, p. 468.
10 Ibid. 28 Sept 1571, p. 476.
11 C.S.P. Foreign, Elizabeth, vol. IX, 8 Oct 1571, pp. 544–5.
12 Ibid. vol. X, Jan 1572.
13 John Strype, The Life of Sir Thomas Smith (Oxford, 1820), p. 11.
14 C.S.P. Foreign, Elizabeth, vol. X, and Strype, Smith, p. 112.
15 Ibid. pp. 112–13.
16 Compleat Ambassador, p. 218.
17 Ibid. pp. 219–21. See also Read, Walsingham, vol. I, pp. 206–7.
18 Fénélon, Correspondence, vol. V, p. 121.
19 Ibid. vol. V, pp. 120–33, and Compleat Ambassador, p. 246. See also Read, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth, pp. 89–90.
20 Compleat Ambassador, p. 259. See also Read, Walsingham, vol. I, p. 235.
1 Read, Walsingham, vol. II, pp. 3–4. See also Read, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth, pp. 200–2.
2 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 26 Feb 1579.
3 Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, 10 vols (1880–1909), vol. 7, 29 Mar 1579. See Read, Walsingham, vol. II, pp. 14–18.
4 Illustrations of British History, vol. II, p. 212.
5 Read, Walsingham, vol. II, pp. 14–18.
6 Printed in Read, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth, pp. 210–11.
7 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 3 May 1579, p. 669.
8 Ibid. 14 May 1579.
9 Ibid. 14 May 1579, p. 675.
10 Camden, Annals.
11 Wright, Queen Elizabeth and Her Times, vol. II, pp. 103 5.
12 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 24 June 1579.
13 M.A.S. Hume, The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth, p. 212.
14 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 25 Aug 1579, p. 693.
15 Ibid.
16 J.A. Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, 12 vols (1856–70), vol. XI, p. 175.
17 Philip Sidney, Works, 4 vols (1922–6), vol. III, pp. 51–60.
18 State Papers … Left by Lord Burghley at Hatfield, ed. W. Murdin, pp. 322–36.
19 Ibid. pp. 336–7.
20 Ibid. p. 337.
21 Ibid.
22 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. II, 11 Nov 1579.
23 Ibid. 28 Nov 1579.
24 Ibid. 28 Nov 1579, p. 705.
25 Calendar of Salisbury Manuscripts, vol. II, pp. 275–6.
26 Read, Walsingham, vol. II, pp. 75–6.
27 Hume, Courtships, pp. 235–6.
28 C.S.P. Span., Elizabeth, vol. III, 11 Nov 1581, pp. 211–12.
29 Ibid. 22 Nov 1581, p. 226.
30 Camden, Annals.