The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court (79 page)

Knollys, Dudley

Knollys, Elizabeth

Knollys, Sir Francis; letter to wife

Knollys, Henry; wedding

Knollys, Katherine, Lady (
née
Carey): early life and marriage; lady-in-waiting; illnesses; death; funeral; children

Knollys, Lettice (later Devereux, then Dudley, Countess of Leicester); and Dudley; marriage; exiled from court; in
Leicester’s Commonwealth
; in
Letter of Estate
; subsequently

Knollys, Sir William; and Mary Fitton; in Coffer Chamber

Kyernberk, Martin

Kyle, John

Ladies of the Bedchamber; as bedfellows; duties; ranks; wages; after death of Kat Ashley; scandals; on death of EI;
see also names

Languet, Hubert

Lannoy, Cornelius de (alchemist)

Laton, Gilbert

Launceton Castle

lavatories; Harington’s device

Lee, Sir Henry

Lee, John

Lee, Capt. Thomas

Leicester, Earl of
see
Dudley, Robert

Leicester’s Commonwealth

Lennox, Esmé Stuart d’Aubigny, Earl of

Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess of

Lennox, Mathew Stewart, 4th Earl of

Leslie, John, Bishop of Ross

Letter of Estate, The

Lilly, William

Lippomano, Hieronimo

Lochleven Castle

Lodge, Thomas:
Scillaes Metamorphosis

London: at coronation of EI; frozen; on Rising of the North;
1599
defences; in RDev rebellion; at death of EI; on accession of James;
see also
place names

Lopez, Dr Roderigo

Lopez, Sarah

Lorraine, Charles de Guise, Cardinal de

Louvain

Lyford Grange, Berkshire

Madre de Dios
(ship)

Maitland, Sir William

Malte, Etheldrada

Maniola de Corfeu

Manners, Roger, Earl of Rutland

Manningham, John

Margaret Tudor

Markham, Robert

Markham, Thomas

Martinego, Abbot

Mary I, Queen; Catholicism; marriage; death and will; tomb

Mary of the Guise

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots: early life; 1st marriage; returns to Scotland; claim to English throne; described by Melville; relationship with EI; plots to place on throne, (Babington); and Bocosel; 2nd marriage prospects; offered RDu as husband; and Duke of Norfolk; marries Darnley; pregnancy; murder of Rizzio; birth of son; death of Darnley; marries Bothwell; abdicates; flees to England; trial re murder of Darnley; imprisonment in England, (appeals to Philip); and English Parliament; secret correspondence; writes to EI; trial for conspiracy; death warrant; execution; international reaction; tomb

Mather, Edmund

Maximilian II, Emperor

Mayne, Cuthbert

medicines; for insomnia; preventive; smallpox

Melville, Sir James, Scottish envoy

Mendoza, Don Bernardino de, Spanish ambassador

menstruation

Metamorphosis of Ajax, The

Micea, Marco Antonio

Mildmay, Sir Walter

Mitterburg, Baron von
see
Zwetkowich, Adam von

Montague, Alice

Montague, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount

Montmorency, Françis, Duke of

Moody, Michael

Moray, James Stewart, Earl of

Morgan, Thomas

Mortlake, Surrey

Most Joyful song
…,
A

Mountjoy’s Inn, Holborn

Mundt, Christopher

music

Neale, John:
Queen Elizabeth I

Neville, Charles, 6th Earl of Westmoreland

Neville, Edmund

New Discourse
…:
The Metamorphosis of Ajax

New Year’s Day gifts;
1563
;
1566
;
1579
; RDev’s last

Newdigate, Anne

‘News from Heaven and Hell’

Newton, Frances (later Brooke)
see
Cobham, Frances

Newton, Thomas:
Atropoion Delion

Nicholson, George

Noailles, Antonie de

Nonsuch Palace, Surrey; history; Platter at; RDev at

Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of; and RDu; plans to marry MS; Rising of the North; in ToL; and Ridolfi Plot; trial; death

Norris, Sir Henry, ambassador in Paris

Norris, Sir John

North Hall, Northaw, Hertfordshire

Northampton, Helena Parr, Marchioness of

Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of

Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of

Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of

Northumberland, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of

Norton, Thomas

Norwich

Nostradamus, Michel

Nottingham, Catherine Howard, Countess of

Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of: and Armada; on Privy Council; at end of EI’s reign

Nowell, Dr Alexander

Oath of Allegiance

Oath of Supremacy

Oatlands Palace, Surrey

O’Collun, Patrick

Oliver, Isaac

O’Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone

‘Order of Prayer and Thanksgiving…’

Osborne, Francis:
Traditional Memoirs …

Owen, Nicholas

Oxford, John de Vere, 16th Earl of

Paget, Charles

Paget, Lord Thomas

Paris, France: plots in; St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; Catholics in; pictures of EI in; publication in; on death of MS;
see also
Stafford, Sir Edward; Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas

Parker, Henry

Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury

Parliament:
1559;
1562
(petitions EI to marry);
1563
;
1564
;
1572
;
1566
;
1571
legislation;
1581
;
1584
, (Dr Parry);
1586
;
1601

Parr, Katherine; marriage; death

Parr, William

Parry, Blanche; duties; after death of Kat Ashley; death; monument; tomb; will

Parry, Dr Henry

Parry, Sir Thomas

Parry, Dr William

Paulet, Sir Amyas

Payne, John

Penn, Sybill

Penshurst Place, Kent

Percy, Henry
see
Northumberland

Percy, Thomas
see
Northumberland

perfumes

Persons, Father Robert;
A Conference about the next succession …
;
The Judgement of a Catholic Englishman …
;
A Discussion of the Answer …

Peterborough Cathedral

Phaer, Thomas:
Regiment of Life

Phelippes, Thomas

Philip II, King of Spain; and K. Grey; and MS; and Portugal; on death of MS; claim to English throne; and Arthur Dudley; and ‘Enterprise of England’; and Lopez

Philosopher’s Stone

Pickering, Sir William

Pius V, Pope; excommunicates Elizabeth

plague

Platter, Thomas

Pole, Arthur

Pole, Edmund

Pollweiler, Baron

Polwhele, William

Popham, Chief Justice

Pormant, Thomas

Portman, Sir Hugh

ports, security measures at

Portugal; Drake’s voyage to;
Madre de Dios

Pregnor, Gaspar

Presence Chamber; Greenwich; Hampton Court

Prestall, John

privies

Privy Chamber; security; Whitehall

Privy Council:
1548
; 1560;
1561
;
1562
, discuss succession;
1566
, on EI’s marriage;
1568
, and MS;
1572
, on Huguenot massacre;
1579
;
1581
, and Anjou; ‘Instrument of an Association…’; and execution of MS; and Lord Deputy in Ireland; and RDev; on death of EI

prophecy

Protestant Church and state; and Scotland

Protestants;
see also
Huguenots

Pullyson, Sir Thomas

Purit-Anus

Puttenham, George: poems by

Quadra, Don Alvaro de, Bishop of Aquila, Spanish ambassador; arrested; death

Queen’s Bench prison, Southwark

Radcliffe, Mary

Radcliffe, Thomas, 3rd Earl of Sussex

Raimondi, Marcantonio

Ralegh, Damerei

Ralegh, Sir Walter; marriage; in Tower of London

Ralegh, Walter (son of Sir Walter)

Randolph, Thomas, ambassador to Scotland

Rich, Lady Penelope (
née
Devereux)

Richmond Palace; bed; Christmas,
1588
; Presence Chamber; EI’s ‘warm box’ 100; water closet;
1602

Ridolfi, Roberto di

Ridolfi plot

Rising of the North

Rivers, Father Anthony

Rizzio, David: murder of

Robsart, Amy, death; funeral

Rogers, Sir Edward

Rogers, John

Rogers, Mary

Rolls, Richard

Rookwood, Edward

Rudd, Dr Anthony

Ruggieri, Cosmo

Russell, Anne
see
Warwick, Anne Dudley (
née
Russell), Countess of

Sacconay, Gabriel de

Sadler, Sir Ralph

Sandys, Edwin, Bishop of London

Savage, John

Savoy, Duchess of

Scaramelli, Giovanni Carlo

Schifanoya, Il

Scotland; English invade; MS returns to; religion; Treaty of Edinburgh;
see also
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Randolph, Thomas

Scrope, Philadelphia Carey, (
née
Knollys), Lady
see
Carey, Philadelphia

Scudamore, John (marries Mary Shelton)

Scudamore, John (son)

Scudamore, Mary (
née
Shelton): family and early life; marriage; Lady of Privy Chamber; Lady of Bedchamber

Secret History of the Duke …

Secret History of the Most Renowned …

Seymour, Edward, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector

Seymour, Edward, Earl of Hertford

Seymour, Edward, Viscount Beauchamp

Seymour, Jane

Seymour, Katherine (
née
Grey): claim to throne; on accession of EI; Lady of Bedchamber; marriage; in ToL; illness and death; in
Conference about the next succession …

Seymour, Sir Thomas; marriage; living in Old Manor; widowed and arrested

Seymour, Thomas (son of Katherine)

Shakespeare, William:
Venus and Adonis

Sheffield, John, Lord

Sheldon, Sir Edward

Shelton, Sir John

Shelton, Mary (later Scudamore)
see
Scudamore, Mary

Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of (
née
St Loe; ‘Bess of Hardwick’)

Shrewsbury, George Talbot, Earl of: marriage; custody of MS; execution of MS; on EI’s last illness; letters to

Sidney, Ambrosia: death

Sidney, Elizabeth

Sidney, Frances (later Devereux)

Sidney, Sir Henry; and Philip II; and wife’s smallpox; offered barony; letter to wife

Sidney (
née
Dudley), Mary, Lady: early life; in Privy Chamber (and de Quadra); smallpox; in Ireland; New Year gifts to EI, 1579; retires

Sidney, Mary (daughter of Lady Sidney)

Sidney, Sir Philip: name; smallpox; death; ‘A Letter to Queen Elizabeth’

Sidney, Sir Robert; correspondence with James VI

Silva, Guzman de, Spanish ambassador

Simier, Jean de, Baron de Saint-Marc

Sixtus V, Pope

smallpox; ‘red treatment’; scars

Smith, Sir Thomas, envoy in France

Smythesone, John

Somerset House

Somerville, John

Southern, Robert

Southwell, Elizabeth (mother of Walter Devereux)

Southwell, Elizabeth (attends EI in her final days)

Southwell, Robert

Spain: war with France; and Portugal; ‘Enterprise of England’; Armada (in portrait of EI); invasion: feared,
1599
; forces land in Ireland;
see also
Feria, Count of; Mendoza, Don Bernardino de; Philip II, King; Quadra, Alvaro de; Silva, Guzman de; Spes, Don Gureau de

‘Speeches of a Friar in Dunkirk, The’

Spenser, Edmund:
The Faerie Queene

Spes, Don Gureau de, Spanish ambassador

Squires, Edward

St James’s Palace

St John, Margaret, Countess of Bedford

St Loe, Bess,
see
Shrewsbury, Countess of of Hardwick

St Paul’s Cathedral

Stafford, Dorothy, Lady: during reign of Mary I; Lady of Bedchamber; and sons; death

Stafford, Sir Edward: early life; ambassador to France; and
Leicester’s Commonwealth
; reports on Armada

Stafford, Elizabeth

Stafford, John

Stafford, Sir William

Stafford, William (son of Sir William)

Standen, Anthony

Stanley, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby

Stanley, John

Stanley, Sir William

Star Chamber, Court of

Stettin-Pomeramia, Duke of

Stonor Park, Oxfordshire

Stow, John

Strachey, Lytton:
Elizabeth and Essex

Stuart, Arbella

Stuart, Henry
see
Darnley, Lord

Stuart d’Aubigny, Esmé

Stubbes, Philip

Stubbs, John:
The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf …

succession negotiations,
1601

Surian, Giacomo, Venetian ambassador

Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of

Sweden

Symondes, Dr

Talbot, George, son of Earl of Shrewsbury

Talbot, Gilbert

Talbot, Lady Mary

Tamworth (groom)

Thames, River: barrier; frozen

Thomas, Valentine

Throckmorton, Elizabeth (later Ralegh)

Throckmorton, Francis

Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas; ambassador to France; in Scotland;
1566
;
1569

Thurneyesser, Leonhard