BL MSS – British Library Manuscripts
Cecil – Cecil Papers, Hatfield House
CSP, Scotland, Foreign, Venetian – Calendar of State Papers
NLR – National Library of Russia
NLS – National Library of Scotland
PRO SP – Public Record Office, State Papers
1 Mary Stuart to Mary of Guise, the morning of her wedding, Foreign Correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, ed. M. Wood (Edinburgh, 1923)
2 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, 52
3 Discours du grand et magnifique triumphs faict au marriage do tresnoble & magnifique Prince François de Valois Roy-Dauphin, fil aisne du tres-chrestien Roy de France Henry II. Du nome, & de treshaulte & vertueuse Princesse madam Marie d’Estuart, Roine de’Ecosse (Paris, par Annet Brière, 1558), 325; Brantôme, 53
4 Discours du grand et magnifique…, 8
5 Discours du grand et magnifique…, 28; Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, 26
6 Labanoff, Lettres, II, 65
7 Labanoff, Lettres, II, 65
8 Fraser, 95; Estienne Perlin, 1558
1 John Knox, History of the Reformation, I, p.37
2 Lisle to Henry, CSP Scotland. See also Foreign Correspondence (Mary of Guise) and Labanoff, Lettres, I. Also Henry VIII, Letters and Papers, 20–22 and Sadler in State Papers
3 Sadler, State Papers, I, 88
4 Sadler, State Papers, I, 107
1 CSP Scottish, VII; Foreign Correspondence; State Papers; and Henry VIII, Letters and Papers
2 See State Papers, V; Foreign Correspondence; CSP, Foreign, VIII
1 De Beaugué, L’Histoire, 65; Labanoff, Lettres, II, 33
2 Mary’s Book of Hours, National Library of Russia, LAT, Qv 1, 110
3 Labanoff, Lettres, VII 277
4 Recueil, I, 8; Labanoff, Lettres, II, 65
5 Labanoff, Lettres, I, 29
6 Labanoff, Lettres, I, 34
7 CSP, Venetian, VII, 270
1 CSP, Venetian, VI, ii, 1058
2 CSP, Venetian, VI, ii, 1059
3 Harrington, II, 312
4 CSP, Venetian, VI, 1060
5 CSP, Venetian, VI, 1080
6 CSP, Spanish, V, 1050
7 CSP, Venetian, VI, 288
8 CSP, Venetian, VI, 436, 446
9 CSP, Venetian, VII, 42
1 Ives, Anne Boleyn, 248
2 See Borman, Elizabeth’s Women, 30
3 See Whitelock, Mary Tudor, 25
4 CSP, Spanish, V, I, 573
5 CSP, Venetian, VI, 65; Henry VIII, Letters and Papers, X, 96–7
6 Weir, Henry VIII, 135; Henry VIII, Letters and Papers, X, 102
7 CSP, Venetian, VI, 85; Henry VIII, Letters and Papers, X, 105
8 CSP, Spanish, V, ii, 101
9 CSP, Spanish, V, ii, 105
10 Weir, Six Wives, 260
1 Henry VIII, Letters and Papers, X, 330
2 CSP, Spanish, V, ii, 125
3 Henry VIII, Letters and Papers, XI, 190
4 Weir, Elizabeth, 75
5 BL, Lansdowne MS, 1236, 35
6 Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, 65
1 Borman, Elizabeth’s Women, 123
2 For an excellent in-depth discussion of Henry VIII’s will, the succession and the question of dry-stamping, see Lipscomb, The King is Dead, 145
3 Weir, Six Wives, 255. See also Skidmore, Edward VI; MacCulloch, The Boy King
4 See CSP, Spanish, VII, ii, 154
5 See also Perry, Word of a Prince, 85
6 CSPD, Edward VI, 92; Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, 2
7 see Borman, Elizabeth’s Women, 113; Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, 4
8 Haynes, Cecil State Papers, 89–90
9 CSP, Spanish, VIII, vi, 25
1 CSP, Spanish, VIII, ii 502. For Mary and religion, see Whitelock, Mary Tudor
2 For more on Mary’s long-ignored confidence as leader, see de Lisle, Tudor, 65
3 CSP, Foreign, IX, viii. For Elizabeth’s impossible position, see Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince; Whitelock, Mary Tudor; Weir, Elizabeth; Doran, Elizabeth I and her Circle
4 Mary has been too long seen as a ‘failure’. For modern scholarship on her as a confident Tudor and Counter Reformation monarch, see Whitelock, Mary Tudor; Porter, Mary Tudor; and de Lisle, Tudor – as de Lisle points out, Mary was simply behaving as the ‘ruthless Tudor monarch she was’.
5 CSP, Foreign, VIII, 85. Borman, Elizabeth’s Women, 165
6 See Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince, 105
1 Knox, The Monstrous Regiment, 30, 65. See also Knox, History, 60. See also Foreign Correspondence, I, 60; Labanoff, Lettres, I, 65. See also the Dubrovsky Collection in the National Library of Russia
2 CSP, Foreign, I, 347
3 CSP, Foreign, I, 348
4 CSP, Foreign, 1560–61, 291
5 CSP, Foreign, II, 347
6 CSP, Scotland, III, 85
7 Labanoff, Lettres, I, 70. See also Foreign Correspondence, I, 67
8 Knox, History, 64. See also Foreign Correspondence, I, 75
9 CSP, Foreign, I, 67; Labanoff, Lettres, I, 65; Foreign Correspondence, I, 77
1 CSP, Foreign, III, 394. See also NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut 34/2, 17
2 Bothwell, 46
3 CSP, Foreign, III, 409
4 CSP, Venetian, VII, 278. See also NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut 34/2, 15
5 My translation. Also NLR Dubrovsky, Aut 34/2, 16
6 CSP, Foreign, II, 360. See also Labanoff, Lettres, I, 65
7 CSP, Foreign, III, 42. See also NLR Dubrovsky, Aut 34/2, 19
8 CSP, Foreign, III, 472. See also Labanoff, Letters, I, 78
9 CSP, Foreign, III, 423
10 CSP, Foreign, III, 565
1 CSP, Foreign, II, 405
2 As one early biographer put it, ‘Hereupon Queen Elizabeth bare secret grudge against her, which the subtill malice of men on both sides, cherished, growing betwixt them, emulation and new occasions daily arising, in such sort, that it could not be extinguished but by death.’ Camden, Historie, 34
3 CSP, Scotland, VIII, 45. See also NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut 34/3 20
4 CSP, Foreign, Elizabeth, 1558–9, 443
5 CSP, Foreign, II, 606. BL Cotton MS Caligula, C II, 39
6 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C II 42
7 Sidney, Memoir, 154. Labanoff, Lettres, I, 56
8 CSP, Scotland, I, 606
9 Knox, History, II, 15; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C II, 47
1 CSP, Spanish, IX, 105
2 See Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince, 56
3 CSP, Spanish, VIII, iv, 86. BL, Add. MS, 48027, 75
4 See Mulcaster, The Passage of our most Drad Soveraigne Lady Quene Elyzabeth; see also Weir, Elizabeth, 66
5 Neale, Elizabeth I, 130. See Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, 85
6 Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince, 134
7 Neale, Elizabeth I, 135
8 CSP, Spanish, VIII, 65
9 CSP, Venetian, 1558–80, 12
10 Neale, Elizabeth I, 160
11 See BL, Add. MS, 4847, 97–8
1 CSP, Spanish, VIII, 56; see also Gristwood, Elizabeth and Leicester; Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince; Weir, Elizabeth
2 See Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, 60
3 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 660
4 Gristwood, Elizabeth and Leicester, 93
5 CSP, Spanish, IX, 115
6 CSP, Spanish, IX, 164
7 CSP, Spanish, IX, 175
8 See Skidmore, Death and the Virgin; Gristwood, Elizabeth and Leicester
9 See BL, Add. MS, 48023
10 See Skidmore, Death and the Virgin
11 CSP, Spanish, IX, 123
12 CSP, Spanish, X, 252
13 Neale, Elizabeth I, 183
14 Neale, Elizabeth I, 183
1 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula C III, 65. See also NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut. 35/3, 27
2 CSP, Foreign, 78, 606
3 CSP, Foreign, VIII, 65; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C III, 86
4 Maitland, Narrative, 65, 74, 98
5 CSP, Foreign, VIII, 65
6 Maitland, 85
7 Melville, Memoirs, 85
8 Melville, Memoirs, 107
9 Teulet, Lettres, II, 132
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C III, 85
11 Maitland, 93. See also PRO SP, 52/12, 43
12 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C III, 48
13 CSP, Scotland, II, 145
1 CSP, Foreign, VIII, 65. See also BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C III, 82
2 PRO SP, 52/12, 41–4
3 Melville, Memoirs, p123
1 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C V, 22.
2 BL, Lansdowne MS, 9; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B 9–10; Labanoff, Lettres, I, 85
3 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B II, 9
4 Labanoff, Lettres, I, 36; Nau, Memorials, 45
5 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B VIII, 25
6 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B III, 86
1 BL, Cotto.n MS, Caligula, C II, 85
2 Melville, Memoirs, 120
3 Labanoff, Lettres, I, 65
4 Melville, Memoirs, 130–31
5 Herries, Memoirs, 65
6 Nau, Memorials, 87
7 Keith, History, I, xcvi; Teulet, Lettres, I
8 BL, Add. MS, 48027; Keith, History, I; Cecil, Papers, 155/56
9 Keith, History, I, 65; Teulet, Lettres, I, 78
10 Tytler, History, II, 400
11 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, III, 82
12 PRO SP, 52/13, 207
13 PRO SP 52/13, 210
14 See BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C I, 34
15 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C I, 45
16 CSP, Foreign, VII, 85
17 PRO SP, 52/12, 130
18 Keith, History, II, 54
19 PRO SP, 53/2, 80
20 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, VII, 80
21 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, VII, 81
22 Nau, Memorials, 34
1 PRO SP, 56/13, 120
2 BL, Add. MS, 33531, 37–8
3 Labanoff, Lettres, 2, 83
4 CSP, Venetian, VII, 65
5 Melville, Memoirs, 165
6 PRO SP, 52/13, 17
7 CSP, Scotland, I, 87; PRO SP 52/14, 18
8 CSP, Spanish, II, 89
9 Keith, History, II, 85
10 PRO SP, 52/13, 17
11 CSP, Spanish, VIII, 65
12 PRO SP, 52/13, 101
1 PRO SP, 59/12, 243–4
2 CSP, Scotland, VI, 85
3 PRO SP, 52/13, 98
4 CSP, Scotland, VII, 90
5 BL, Lansdowne MS, 10
6 PRO SP, 52/13, 64
7 For the Bond, see: BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C I, 85
8 See BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C I, 86
9 PRO SP 59/13, 37–8, 41–2
10 PRO SP, 52/13, 22–3
11 PRO SP, 52/13, 37, 40
1 Melville, Memoirs, 35
2 Georges Vigarello, Sexual Violence in France, 65
3 Melville, Memoirs, 132
4 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C II, 95
5 See BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C II, 87–115
6 Melville, Memoirs, 65
7 Keith, History, II, 85
8 BL, Cotton MS, Vespasian, III, 65
9 Labanoff, Lettres, II, 65
10 CSP, Foreign, II, 65
1 See PRO SP, 59/13, 91–103; CSP, Foreign, VIII, 65
2 Teulet, Lettres, II, 65
3 NAS GD, 1137113
4 BL, Royal MS, 18.13, 6, 242
5 BL, Cotton MS, Titus, C 12
6 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 18
7 Teulet, Lettres, II, 82
8 Melville, Memoirs, 105
9 Teulet, Lettres, II, 85
10 Cecil, Papers, 155/56
11 CSP Scotland, VIII, 82
12 PRO SP, 52/12, 85
13 Maitland, Memoirs, 86
14 PRO SP 52/13, 64–7
15 PRO SP, 52/12, 101
16 Teulet, Lettres, II, 70
17 PRO SP, 59/13, 157–65; Teulet, Lettres, II, 85–90; PRO SP, 59/13, 189–201
18 Teulet, II, 92; PRO SP, 59/13, 101–10
1 Nau, Memorials, 89
2 Teulet, Lettres, II, 65; PRO SP, 59/13, 65
3 Hay Fleming, Mary, 85
4 Labanoff, Lettres, I, 92. And see NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut. 12, 29–30
5 PRO SP, 59/13, 118
6 PRO SP, 52/18, 116
7 PRO SP, 52/14, 1
8 CSP, Scotland, VI, 85
9 CSP, Foreign, VI, 202. See also NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut. 35/3, 68
10 PRO SP, 59/13, 165
11 CSP, Scotland, VI, 503. NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut. 35/3, 68
12 BL, Add. MS, 32091, 216
13 CSP, Rome, III, 65
1 Nau, Memorials, 50
2 Nau, Memorials, 60
3 Cecil, Papers, 56/75
4 CSP, Scotland, VI, 202
5 PRO SP, 59/13, 75
6 PRO SP, 59/13, 78–82
7 CSP, Scotland, VI, 82
8 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C I
9 Nau, Memorials, 65
10 CSP, Scotland, VI, 85
11 Nau, Memorials, 85
12 CSP, Scotland, VI, 132
13 CSP, Foreign, V, 65
1 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 18
2 Nau, Memorials, 186
3 PRO SP, 59/13, 201
4 Labanoff, Lettres, II, 158
5 Labanoff, Lettres, II, 182
6 PRO SP, 59/14, 86
7 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1
8 PRO SP, 59/14, 25
1 Nau, Memorials, 192
2 CSP, Scotland, VI, 85. See NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut. 12. 34
3 CSP, Scotland, VI, 85
4 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B 12, 85; Nau, Memorials, 202
5 CSP, Scotland, VI, 92
6 Nau, Memorials, 205
7 Herries, Memoirs, 82
8 SP PRO, 59/13, 122. See NLR, Dubrovsky, Aut. 90, T.1, 28
9 Styre, Annals of the Reformation, 580–81
10 PRO SP, 59/14, 201
11 Buchanan, Ane detectioun of the duings of Marie Quene of Scotts, 6
12 Buchanan, Ane detectioun of the duings of Marie Quene of Scotts, 30
13 PROP SP, 60/10, 22
14 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, D 10, 85
15 My translation. BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, D 10, 90
16 CSP, Scotland, VI, 88
17 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B 9, 25
18 PRO SP, 53, 15
19 PRO SP, 53, 22
20 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 8, 78
21 Nau, Memorials, 232
22 PRO SP, 53/2, 5–6
1 PRO SP, 53/2, 14–18; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1, 301–56
2 PRO SP, 53/2, 52–8; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1, 228–350
3 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1, 261
4 PRO SP, 53/2, 14–22
5 PRO SP, 53/2, 62, 134–5
6 PRO SP, 53/2, 65, 139
7 PRO SP, 53/2, 65, 140
8 PRO SP, 53/2, 65, 142
9 PRO SP, 53/2, 62, 142
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B 9, 81
11 Cecil, Papers, 155/140–42
12 PRO SP, 53/2, 5–10
13 PRO SP, 53/2, 16
14 Nau, Memorials, 232; PRO SP, 53/2, 20
1 Labanoff, Lettres, VI, 8
2 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 88
3 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 3, 102
4 Cecil, Papers, 155/140–44; PRO SP, 53/2, 50–60; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1, 300–58; CSP, VIII, 65
5 Cecil, Papers, 155/141
6 Herries, Memoirs, 65
7 Herries, Memoirs, 66
8 PRO SP, 55
9 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1, 355–8
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 1, 355–7
11 PRO SP, 53/2, 85; Labanoff, Lettres, II, 256
12 PRO SP, 53/2, 79
13 Herries, Memoirs, 87
14 Teulet, Lettres, II, 87
15 Labanoff, Lettres, II, 156
16 PRO SP, 52/15, 32
17 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, B 9, 30
18 Mary’s Book of Hours, National Library of Russia, Lat Qv 1, 112
19 BL, Add. MS, 48049, 150
20 PRO SP, 52/16, 85
1 BL, Add. MS, 48049, 75
2 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C II, 208
3 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C II, 210.
4 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 82
5 Teulet, Lettres, II, 200; Labanoff, Lettres, VI, 50–85
6 Labanoff, Lettres, VII, 203
7 PRO SP, 59/13, 20; see CSP, Foreign, VIII, 65
8 PRO SP, 59/13, 85
9 PRO SP, 59/13, 82
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, II, 29–30
11 BL, Add. MS, 48049, 150–60
12 Labanoff, Lettres, VII, 333
13 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, II, 40
14 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula II, 73, 75
1 Teulet, Lettres, II, 85
2 See NLR, Fr Q, IV, 212
3 PRO SP, 59/13, 222
4 CSP, 52/16, 51
5 CSP, 53/115, 101
6 CSP, 59/13, 202
7 Labanoff, Lettres, IV, 183
8 Nau, Memorials, 65
9 Cecil, Papers, 65/2, 81
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 3, 85
11 See PRO SP, 53/18, 35–6
12 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 8, 208
13 See Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell, 246. See Guy, My Heart, 256
14 Labanoff, Lettres, VII, 65
15 PRO SP 59/13, 25
16 Nau, Memorials, 252
17 Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell, 302
1 Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 501
2 PRO SP, 59/13, 222
3 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 85
4 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, VII, 17
5 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, VIII, 57
6 Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, 92
7 PRO SP, 58, 65/13
8 PRO SP, 58, 65/12
9 PRO SP, 59/12, 25
10 Labanoff, Lettres, VII, 54; Nau, Memorials, 335
11 Nau, Memorials, 336
12 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 85
13 See Peck (ed.), Leicester’s Commonwealth, 5, 13, 65, 86
14 PRO SP, 12/174, 1–11
15 Labanoff, Lettres, VII, 202
16 Labanoff, Lettres, VII, 202
17 Cecil, Papers, 55/82, 10
1 PRO SP, 53/18, 32
2 Teulet, Lettres, I, 85
3 PRO SP, 53/19, 9
4 Teulet, Lettres, I, 89
5 PRO SP, 53/18, 25–6
6 Morris, Paulet, 182
7 PRO SP, 53/18, 53
8 PRO SP, 53/18, 53
9 PRO SP, 53/18, 53
10 PRO SP, 53/18, 55
11 PRO SP, 53/18, 59
12 Nau, Memorials, 381
1 Nau, Memorials, 382–3
2 Morris, Paulet, 225
3 Nau, Memorials, 88
4 Morris, Paulet, 277
5 Nau, Memorials, 390
6 Nau, Memorials, 392
7 Morris, Paulet, 330
8 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 460–3
9 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 480
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 482
11 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 488
12 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 490
1 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 492–3
2 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 492–3
3 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 510
4 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 471
5 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 480–85
6 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 482–9
7 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 495–500; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 480–95
8 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 550
9 BL, Add. MS, 48196, 540–45; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 480–90
10 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 480–95
11 Morris, Paulet, 85
12 Bourgoing, Marie Stuart, 182
13 BL, Harleian MS, 290
1 See BL, Add. MS, 48027, 651–3
2 Morris, Paulet, 223; BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 85
3 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 366
4 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 387
5 See BL, Add. MS, 48027, 642–50
6 Cecil, Papers, 55/183
7 PRO SP, 53/18, 110
8 CSP, Foreign, 1586–8, 241
9 Lambeth Palace Archive, 4267, 19–20
10 Lambeth Palace Archive, 4267, 19–20
11 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 9, 480; Morris, Paulet, 268
12 Beale in BL, Add. MS, 48027, 650–58
13 See Beale, BL, Add. MS, 48027, 650–58; CSP, Scotland, IV, 291–4
14 CSP, Scotland, IV, 294
1 See Beale, BL, Add. MS, 48027, 639–41
2 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 646–7; also Bourgoing, 285
3 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 648–9
4 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 649
5 Bourgoing, Marie Stuart, 358
6 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 647
7 NLS, Advocates MS, 54.1.1
8 NLS, Advocates MS, 54.1.1
9 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 636–40
10 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 640
11 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 642–3
12 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 649–50; Labanoff, Lettres, VI, 491; Morris, Paulet, 388
13 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 649–50
14 BL, Lansdowne MS, 51, 99–100
15 Bourgoing, Marie Stuart, 388; Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 662–70
16 BL, Add. MS, 48027, 649–50
1 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 10, 53–4
2 BL, Cotton MS, Caligula, C 10, 85
3 Strype, Annales, II, ii, 407
4 Green, ‘I My Self’, 421–55. The cadences fit, the army was definitely there and it does seem as if Sharpe was there as chaplain to the Earl of Leicester. On 9 August, the queen ‘made an excellent Oration to her armie, which the next day after her departure, I was commanded to deliver to all the Armie together’.
5 King James I, Works, Chapter 20