Digby, Mrs (lady in waiting), 117
Dodderidge, John (Good), 154, 186–9, 191, 205, 349
Doleman, R., 142–5, 147, 160, 171–2, 185
Dowland, John, 312
Draper, Hew, 392
Drummond, Jane (Jean), 354
Dudley, Guildford, 391
Dudley, Sir Robert, 370
Dudley, Thomas, 450
Duffield, captain, 140
Durant, David, 452
Dyer, William, 447
Edward VI, king of England, 36, 43, 68
Elizabeth, princess (later queen of Bohemia): relationship with A, 253, 305; apartments, 296; Gunpowder Plot, 305; in masques, 341; brother’s death, 411; marriage, 413–14; portraits, 476, 478; coffin, 473
Elizabeth I, queen of England: mother’s death, 54; education, 75–80; dress, 89, 309; dancing, 95; health, 215; Seymour relationship, 44, 184, 209–10, 335; in Tower, 278, 393; accession, 37; religion, 128; marriage possibilities, 97–8; relationship with Leicester, 134; question of heir, 43, 44, 68, 91, 124–5, 149–50, 159–60, 241, 244; relationship with Mary, 32, 35, 61, 65–6, 68, 83, 92; plots against, 32; attitude to subjects’ marriages, 344; Lennox marriage, 34; A’s birth, 41; A’s inheritance, 48, 52, 167; Lennox funeral, 50; pension for A, 52, 55, 111; portraits, 91, 137; A presented to, 92–8, 99–100; Tilbury speech, 106; relationship with A, 103–5, 111, 122, 152, 168, 173, 195; relationship with Essex, 132–3, 152–3, 160–6; dying, 185, 206, 218–19, 235, 236, 239–41, 432; death, 241; funeral, 256–7
Elphinstone, Sir John, 312
Erondell, Peter, 54
Essex, Frances, countess of, 290, 406
Essex, Robert Devereux, second earl of: appearance, 105; character, 105, 132–3, 133, 215; father’s death, 160; health, 215; relationship with Elizabeth, 96, 105, 118, 132–3, 142–4, 152–3, 160, 215; relationship with A, 96, 105–6, 107, 133–5, 141–2, 431; correspondence with James, 118, 141–2; marriage, 133; French wars, 114; religion, 127; influence, 132, 141, 151; relationship with Cecil, 132, 151, 168–9; intelligence sources, 137, 139, 151; Cadiz expedition, 151, 153; popularity, 153; Irish campaign, 160–1, 162; rebellion, 164, 248, 257, 305; destruction of papers, 134; trial, 164–6; execution, 165–6, 176, 225, 240, 257
Essex, Robert Devereux, third earl of, 305, 444, 445
Farnese, see Parma
Fawkes, Guido, 305
Fenelon, Bertrand de Salignac, 38
Fenton, Sir Thomas Erskine, Viscount, 257, 293, 295, 325, 361, 420–1
Fisher, John, 393, 399
Fitzgibbon, B., 405–6
Fitzherbert family, 126
Fleming, Sir Thomas, 360
Fletcher, John, 310, 327, 386
Flick, captain, 385
Foljambe, Mary, Lady, 126
Fontanus, Nicholas, 212
Forman, Simon, 40, 69
Foscarini, Antonio, 376, 377–8, 436
Fowler, Thomas, 38, 52, 301–2
Fowler, William, 301–2
Fraser, Antonia, 80, 344, 464
Freake (embroiderer), 232, 322, 349
Frederick, elector Palatine, 413–14
Freeman, Thomas, 317
Fugger newsletters, 73, 170, 433
Garnet, Henry, 396
Gascoigne, George, 457
George III, king, 213, 214
Gerard, John, 126, 371, 398
Goodere, Sir Henry, 99
Goodman, Godfrey, 389
Gorges, Prospero, 361
Gosson, Philip, 90
Gowrie, John Ruthven, third earl of, 401–2
Greene, Robert, 115
Greville, Sir Fulke, 114
Grey, Lady Catherine, see Seymour
Grey, Lady Jane (later Dudley): birth, 43; interests, 74, 77; betrothal, 358; marriage, 391; Testament, 188; execution, 43, 82, 278, 381
Grey, Lady Mary, 43–4, 45, 381, 382
Grey, Thomas, Baron Grey of Wilton, 267, 280, 401, 414, 420
Guy, John, 118
Hacker (Mary Talbot’s servant), 193
Hale, Serjeant, 275
Hall, Joseph (bishop of Norwich), 436
Hammond, Dr, 364
Hardwick, 59, 64, 111, 119–20, 153–7, 469–71
Hardwick, James, 64
Hardwick, John, 59
Harington, Sir John: on A, 74, 76, 88, 141, 321; on Essex, 133, 141, 163, 215; on marriage possibilities, 158–9; on claims to throne, 169, 185–6, 246; on court, 293, 308
Harvey, Gabriel, 90
Hatton, Sir Christopher, 54, 64, 96, 114, 116, 154
Helwys, Sir Gervase, 422, 438
Henri IV, king of France, 128, 152, 158, 172, 347
Henrietta Anne, duchess of Orleans, 463
Henry VII, king of England, 35, 426, 473
Henry VIII, king of England: sisters’ descendants, 36, 42; marriages, 44; monasteries, 59; daughters, 125; executions, 386; will, 334; tomb, 445
Henry, prince of Wales: birth, 146; plot against, 267; at Oxford, 303–5, 331; relationship with A, 306, 312, 338, 353, 366, 368, 411; dress, 309; investiture, 341, 347–9; on Ralegh, 395; death, 411, 413, 463–4; coffin, 473
Herbert, Philip, earl of Montgomery, fourth earl of Pembroke, 292
Hertford, see Seymour
Hilliard, Nicholas, 91, 111, 116, 132
Hobbes, Thomas, 74
Hoby, Lady Margaret, 173–4
Holinshed, Raphael, 103
Holland, Hugh, 295
Holles, Sir John, 31
Howard, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, see Nottingham
Howard, Lady Frances, 309, 422, 438
Howard, Lord Thomas, 36, 44–5, 76, 292
Howard, Lord Thomas, first earl of Suffolk, 254
Hume, David, 295
Hume, Sir George, 297
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, third earl of, 147
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, fifth earl of, 282, 315
Hurstfield, Joel, 149
Hutchinson, John, 291
Hutchinson, Lucy, 291, 349
James IV, king of Scotland, 36
James V, king of Scotland, 464
James VI, king of Scotland, James I, king of England: childhood, 37, 38, 48; claim to English throne, 42, 91, 146, 159, 167–71; plots against, 42; Lennox earldom, 48, 167; Lennox jewels, 52, 109; marriage possibilities, 68; relationship with mother, 80; mother’s death, 98; question of A’s marriage, 98, 109; letter to A, 115–16; correspondence with Essex, 118, 141–2; character, 150; birth of son Henry, 146; Essex’s appeal to, 163; Cecil’s agreement, 167–8, 171, 241; concern about A, 206, 241, 254; accession to English throne, 125, 241–5, 301; progress through England, 255; policies as king of England, 257–8; meeting with A, 259–61; attitude to women, 259, 288,, 295; sexuality, 289, 292; hunting, 270, 293–4; portrait, 260; court, 90, 263, 269–70, 279–80, 281–6, 291–5, 307–11; coronation, 263, 393; conspiracies against, 267–9; Hampton Court conference, 294; Oxford visit, 303; Gunpowder Plot, 305–6; gifts to favourites, 309; expenditure, 309–10; money for A, 327; response to A’s betrothal and marriage, 19, 338–9, 345, 351–3; A’s letters, 355–7; relationship with parliament, 347; orders A’s Durham imprisonment, 359–60, 362, 363–4, 367; A’s appeals to, 367; response to A’s flight, 376–7, 384–5; response to William’s flight, 404, 405; daughter’s wedding, 413–14; porphyria diagnosis, 463; Overbury case, 438; pardon for William, 441; death, 440
James, William (bishop of Durham), 359, 362, 363, 365, 366
Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII, 184, 479
Johns (tailor), 113
Johnson, Isaac, 448, 450
Jones, Inigo, 78, 442
Jonson, Ben: on court, 88, 270, 311; espionage, 137, 457; plays, 283, 327; home, 320
Kent, Lady Elizabeth Grey (Talbot), countess of: medical recipes, 77–8, 79, 439; marriage, 177, 439; home, 323; in masque, 341; A’s escape, 376; A’s imprisonment, 411
Kent, Henry Grey, sixth earl of, 255–6, 258, 296, 323, 439
Keyes, Thomas, 382
Killigrew, Henry, 215
Kingston, dukes of, 447
Kinloss, Edward Bruce, Lord, 315
Kinnersley, Nicholas, 106–7
Kirton (Kyrton), Edward, 343, 349, 383, 441
Kirton, Frances, 277
Knyvet, Thomas, Lord Knyvet of Escrick, 325
Knyvet family, 448
Lake, Sir Thomas, 151, 420
Lancaster, John of Gaunt, duke of, 41
Lanyer, Amelia, 74–5, 77
Larkin, Thomas, 424
Larkin, William, 332, 477
Leeke, Sir Francis, 239
Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of: in Tower, 391; relationship with Elizabeth, 50, 134; portrait, 66; Lady Lennox’s death, 49–50, 53, 54; correspondence, 53, 58, 65, 106; relationship with Bess, 65, 96, 131; son’s marriage question, 50, 67; intelligence sources, 137; on Tilbury speech, 106; death, 107, 114
Lennox, Charles Stuart, sixth earl of: appearance, 47; claim to throne, 42; religion, 129; marriage, 30–2, 44; birth of daughter, 39; death, 47–8; tomb, 50, 474
Lennox, Elizabeth Stuart (Cavendish), countess of: marriage, 30–2, 44, 49; dowry, 49, 63; birth of daughter, 39; husband’s death, 47–8; pension, 52; relationship with mother, 53; death, 53–5, 225
Lennox, Esmé, Lord D’Aubigny, first duke of, 48, 109
Lennox, Ludovic Stuart, second duke of, 109, 284, 297, 320
Lennox, Lady Margaret, countess of: ancestry, 35–6, 42, 144; Howard betrothal, 36, 292; in Tower, 36, 37, 38, 391; poetry, 76–7; religion, 129; Lennox marriage, 36, 71; son Darnley’s marriage, 37; relationship with Mary, 38; son Charles’s marriage, 30–1, 34; granddaughter A’s birth, 39; granddaughter’s inheritance, 48; finances, 49, 50; death, 49–50, 225; tomb, 50, 474
Lennox, Matthew Stuart, fourth earl of, 36–7, 45, 391
Lilburne, John, 360–1
Lincoln, Theophilus Clinton, fourth earl of, 447–8
Lockey, Rowland, 116
Lodge, Edmund, 58
Louis XII, king of France, 43
Makin, Bathsua, 77
Manners, John, 239
Manningham, John, 172, 244, 254
Margaret Tudor, queen of Scotland, 36, 42, 463
Marguerite de Valois, 152
Markham, Griffin, 267, 273, 280
Markham, William, 20, 267, 383
Markham family, 126
Marlowe, Christopher, 131, 455–461
Mary I, queen of England, 36, 37, 59, 89, 210
Mary, queen of Scots: inheritance, 36; marriage possibilities, 68; marriage to Darnley, 32, 37, 44, 71, 134, 177, 391; portrait, 33; religion, 129; escape plans, 22; imprisonment in England, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 60–1, 80–2; relationship with Bess, 35, 65–7, 68; embroidery, 67, 80, 173, 368, 470, 475–6; relationship with Lady Lennox, 39; claim to English throne, 42; jewels, 52; relationship with Shrewsbury, 65–7, 127; health, 213, 463; wills, 48, 142; relationship with son, 48, 81, 142; relationship with A, 67, 68, 80–2, 83, 475; letters intercepted, 248; execution, 582–3, 92, 225, 255–6; tomb, 472, 473–4
Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII (daughter of Henry VII), 42–3, 101, 184, 464
Massinger, Philip, 308
Mathew, David, 452
Matthias, duke, 158, 190
Maurice, prince, 444
Maurice of Nassau, count, 301
Melwarde, Mathias, 368
Mendoza, Spanish ambassador, 98
Mildmay, Sir Walter, 72
Monson, Sir William, 23, 24, 25, 376, 378–80
Montague, chief justice, 398
More, Sir John: on A’s flight, 20, 24, 370, 377, 384; on William’s escape, 373, 377, 381, 384, 404; on court response to A’s marriage, 384, 411; on Mary Talbot, 387
Morley, Thomas, 130
Morley (Catholic spy), 130–1
Morley (tutor), 129–31, 136–7, 138, 455–61
Moryson, Fynes, 317
Moundford, Dr: A’s pregnancy question, 353; on A’s health, 19, 363; on James, 367; arrest, 383; interrogation, 23; on A’s allegations, 415; A’s death, 435
Murray, Sir David, 303
Nenner, Howard, 125
Nevers, duke of, 172
Neville, Sir Henry, 257
Neville, Thomas, 254
Newcastle, see Cavendish
Newdigate, Anne, 177, 310
Newton, Adam, 303
Nicholl, Charles, 459–60, 461
Nicholls, Mark, 276
Norden, John, 349
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, fourth duke of, 32, 386
Norrington, Ruth, 465–6
Northampton, Helena, marchioness of, 261, 479
Northampton, Henry Howard, earl of, 257, 386–7, 422–3, 429–30, 438
Northumberland, Dorothy (Devereux), duchess of, 171
Northumberland, Henry Percy, eighth earl of, 67
Northumberland, Henry Percy, ninth earl of: marriage rumours, 109, 461; on Essex, 134; relationship with James, 171, 257, 306, 460–1; in Tower, 306, 395, 401
Nottingham, Catherine, countess of, 206, 219
Nottingham, Charles Howard, earl of (Lord Howard of Effingham), 23, 114, 273, 275, 311, 384
Nottingham, Margaret, countess of, 311–12
Oliver, Isaac, 320, 476
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 292, 422, 431–2, 435, 438
Overton, William, bishop of Coventry, 65
Owen, John, 295
Owen, Richard, 231, 232
Oxford, Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of, 90
Paget, Thomas Paget, third baron, 67
Palmer, Dr, 415, 417, 424
Parma, Alessandro Farnese, duke of, 98, 168
Parma, Rainutio Farnese, duke of, 98, 102, 105, 111, 118, 170–1
Parry, Sir Thomas, 346, 349, 363, 438
Parsons, Robert, 142, 168, 247
Pembroke, Lady Mary Herbert (Talbot), 77, 79, 102, 302, 319, 439
Pembroke, William Herbert, third earl of, 77, 272, 302, 319
Percy, Thomas, 306
Pette, Phineas, 376
Philip II, king of Spain, 98, 142, 151, 158
Philip III, king of Spain, 171, 268
Pierrepont, Bessie, 325
Pierrepont, Frances (Cavendish), 188, 243–4, 447
Platter, Thomas, 113
Primrose, Duncan, 435
Proby, Peter, 137
Pusey, Timothy, 194
Ralegh, Elizabeth (Throckmorton), Lady, 117, 118, 344, 394, 397
Ralegh, Sir Walter: dress, 88; on court life, 90; meeting with A, 96, 97; relationship with Essex, 105, 151, 268; marriage, 117, 344; religious beliefs, 128; Cadiz expedition, 151; Marlowe connection, 460–1; treatment by James, 257; Main Plot, 267–8, 276, 280; trial, 97, 273–5; in Tower, 306, 394–5, 396, 401, 411, 433, 472; execution, 440
Ramsey (jester), 113
Reeves, Edward, 343, 350, 383, 423, 424
Rich, Lady Penelope (Devereux), 141, 166, 290, 430
Rivers, Antony, 219, 247
Rodney, Edward, 340, 343, 372, 374–5
Rogers, Sir Richard, 101
Rowlston (Catholic conspirator), 124
Rubens, Peter Paul, 439
Rufford Abbey, 29–32, 323
Rupert of the Rhine, prince, 473
Ruthven, Patrick, 401–2, 423–4
St Loe, Sir William, 60
St Paul, Sir George, 323
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 448
Sampson, Agnes, 115
Savill, Lady Mary, 82
Selden, John, 439
Semple, William, 124
Seton, Mary, 370
Seymour, Arbella, 336, 445, 479
Seymour, Lady Catherine (Grey), countess of Hertford: birth, 43; sister’s execution, 188; marriage, 43, 45, 144, 184, 333–4, 335, 343, 354, 358; in Tower, 43, 45, 381–2, 391; children, 43–4, 101, 381–2; relationship with Elizabeth, 105, 122; death, 184; grandson Edward’s marriage, 183–4; tomb, 479
Seymour, Edward (the lord protector), earl of Hertford and duke of Somerset, 43, 184
Seymour, Edward (son of the above), earl of Hertford: betrothal, 358; marriage, 43, 144, 184, 333–4, 343, 375; imprisonment, 43, 144, 184, 391; children, 43, 101, 382; son’s marriage, 43, 101, 344; grandson Edward’s marriage, 159, 184, 185; A’s message to, 187, 188–9, 195; rumours of son’s rising, 244; grandson William’s escape, 375–6, 385, 406–7; grandson’s allowance, 405; death, 441; tomb, 479
Seymour, Edward (son of the above), Lord Beauchamp: birth, 43, 382; legitimacy, 44, 101, 144, 333–4, 343; marriage, 45, 101, 344; in Tower, 144; marriage rumours, 185, 243; son Edward’s marriage, 159, 184; claim to throne, 168, 184, 243–5; rumours of armed rising, 243–5; death, 245, 411, 441
Seymour, Edward (son of the above): marriage question, 159, 183–5, 188, 333–4, 358; brother’s marriage, 331, 334; death, 441
Seymour, Frances (Howard), countess of Hertford, 332, 385
Seymour, Frances (Devereux), countess of Hertford, 406, 441, 479
Seymour, Francis, 357, 374–6, 445
Seymour, Henry, Lord Beauchamp, 445
Seymour, John, fourth duke of Somerset, 441
Seymour, Thomas (brother of lord protector), 184
Seymour, Thomas (son of Edward, earl of Hertford), 168, 185, 382
Seymour, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, 44, 209–10, 335
Seymour, William, earl of Hertford and duke of Somerset: appearance, 336, 406, 478; character, 334, 336; religion, 128, 406–6, 426, 443; at Oxford, 303, 331; first meeting with A, 331; betrothal, 332, 337–8, 355; marriage plans, 340; marriage, 18, 183, 343–5; in Tower, 18, 20, 346, 359, 371; 394; interrogation, 347; on A’s pregnancy, 353; A’s letter to, 357–8; finances, 361, 405, 426; on Mary Talbot, 368; escape from Tower, 23, 369, 371–6, 472; in France, 379; letters from father, 385; life abroad, 403–7, 426; gift from A, 83, 475; rumours of death, 428–9; pardon, 441; second marriage, 336, 441; career, 441–6; son’s imprisonment, 371, 445; death, 446
Seymour family, 44, 101, 144, 184–5, 478–9
Shakespeare, William, 284, 385, 451
Sheffield, Douglas, Lady, 114
Sherland, Bridget, 192, 194
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of (Bess of Hardwick): ancestry, 59; character, 58; marriages, 35, 59–60, 63, 177, 343; correspondence, 27, 87, 194, 230; religion, 126, 128–9; sorcery against, 392; relationship with Mary, 35, 65–67; finances, 49, 61–3, 64, 116–17, 299, 300; embroidery, 67, 80, 470, 475; daughter’s marriage, 30–1, 34, 38, 39; daughter’s death, 53–4; relationship with Shrewsbury, 56, 58, 60–1, 61–7, 82, 83, 94–5, 107; influential friends, 64–5, 131; portraits, 58; books, 75; relationship with A, 52–3, 53–6, 68–9, 72–3, 75, 89, 102, 107–8, 122–3, 145–6, 175–6, 192, 193–5, 196, 211–12, 216–17, 299–300; Shrewsbury’s death, 107–8; journey south, 111–12; at court, 113–18; building works, 120, 153–5; entertainments, 122; Morley’s employment, 129–30, 457, 459; servants’ livery, 154; old age, 146, 175; will, 175–6, 187, 241; Brounker’s visit, 182, 190, 191, 192, 194–5; letters to queen, 194, 197; A’s letters, 199–200, 201–2; Cecil’s instructions, 247; A’s attempted escape, 231–3; illness, 239; last illness and death, 313–14; tomb, 472