1. The ‘Rainbow’ portrait of Elizabeth I (AKG)
2. The union of roses (Bridgeman)
3. The card players (Bridgeman)
4. Tormenting a Protestant on the rack (Cambridge University Library)
5. Sir Francis Walsingham (Getty)
6. Babington with his accomplices (Bridgeman)
7. Popish plots and treasons (British Museum)
8. Parry’s assassination attempt (Hulton Archive/Getty)
9. Elizabethan locket (Victoria & Albert Museum)
10. Mary Queen of Scots (Getty)
11. Mary’s prayer book and rosary (Getty)
12. A letter in cipher (Getty)
13. Elizabeth I’s effigy (National Portrait Gallery)
p. 51. Henri Léonard Bordier, Peinture de la Saint-Barthélemy par un artiste contemporain (Geneva and Paris, 1878). Cambridge University Library, shelf-mark Acton.b.26.189. Reproduced by kind permission of Cambridge University Library.
p. 85. Charles Sledd’s dossier, 1580. British Library, Additional MS 48029 f. 128r. Copyright © The British Library Board.
p. 97. Thomas Norton, A Declaration of the favourable dealing of her Majesties Commissioners (London, 1583). Cambridge University Library, shelf-mark Syn.7.58.79. Reproduced by kind permission of Cambridge University Library.
pp. 101, 111, 116. Richard Verstegan, Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostril temporis (Antwerp, 1592). Cambridge University Library, shelf-mark U* .4.41(C). Reproduced by kind permission of Cambridge University Library.
p. 113. William Allen, A True, Sincere, and Modest Defence of English Catholicques (Rouen, 1584). Cambridge University Library, shelf-mark F*.15.24(F). Reproduced by kind permission of Cambridge University Library.
p. 150. William Parry to Lord Burghley, 18/28 August 1583.
The National Archives, SP 78/10/31. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 153. John Halter’s examination, 20 December 1583.
The National Archives, SP 12/164/45. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 190. William Parry to Elizabeth I, 14 February 1585.
The British Library, Lansdowne MS 43, no. 47. Copyright © The British Library Board.
p. 226. Francis Mylles to Sir Francis Walsingham, 4 August 1586.
The National Archives, SP 53/19/14. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 230. The ciphers of Mary Queen of Scots and Anthony Babington, September 1586. The National Archives, SP 12/193/54. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 259. Thomas Barnes to Thomas Phelippes, 12 March 1590.
The National Archives, SP 15/31/131. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 265. Lord Burghley’s intelligencers, 1590. The National Archives, SP 101/90 stamped f. 84r. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 288. Report on Reinold Bisley written for Thomas Phelippes, 1592. The National Archives, SP 12/240/144. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 296. Thomas Phelippes to Sir Robert Cecil, 18 April 1600.
The National Archives, SP 12/274/107. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.
p. 311. Sir Robert Cecil’s intelligence network, 1597.
The National Archives, SP 12/265/133. Courtesy of The National Archives, London.