Elizabeth's Spymaster (59 page)

Beale, Edith (sister-in-law to FW)
32

Beale, Robert (brother-in-law to FW; clerk to the Privy Council)
32
,
45
,
60
,
147
,
351

estate of FW
257

execution of MQS
170
,
185
,
188
,
192
,
198

plot to murder MQS
182

trial of MQS
321
,
322
,
323

will of FW
253

will of FW’s wife
266

will of MQS
326

beatification Campion
72
,
351

Cottam
306
,
352

Felton
295

Kirby
355

Northumberland
294
,
356

St Philip Howard
354

Beaton, Cardinal James (Archbishop of Glasgow)
121
–
2
,
351

ambassador to MQS in France
313
,
351

execution of MQS
189

Gifford
283

Morgan
356

Paget
356

Beauchamp, Lord (son of Earl of Hertford; marriage to Honora Rogers)
248
,
336

Beauregard, Renee (maid of honour to MQS)
160

Beckensale, John (prisoner)
140

Beckett, Mr (prisoner)
138

Beckner, Thomas (trader and informer)
86
,
279

Bedford, Bridget Countess of (burial of MQS)
272

Belgium
24
,
65

Bellamy, Anne (tortured by Topcliffe)
78
,
308

Bellamy, Jerome (executed)
348

Bellamy, Robert (prisoner)
140

Bellamy family (recusants)
145
,
319

Bellievre, Pompone de (special ambassador of Henry III)
171

Bellinger, William (attempt by MQS to escape)
179

Benefield, Sir Henry (English Catholic and Spanish sympathiser)
222

Berden, Nicholas (spy; alias Thomas Rogers)
107
–
11
,
279
–
80
,
289
,
312

Babington plot
137
,
138
,
140
,
141
,
318
,
319

letter from Paget signed ‘Nauris’
280

monitoring Stafford
225

MQS’s letters
119

Royal Purveyor of Poultry
111
,
280

Beria, Lavrenty (Soviet NKVD)
261

Besme (alias Vanovitch; murder of Coligny)
50

Best (spy)
90
,
280

Beza, Theodore (translator of Bible)
310

Bickley, Ralph (priest and prisoner)
111
,
139

Biddle, Martin (archaeologist)
310

Binnie, Laird of (brother of Robert Bruce)
280

Birke, George (priest)
81

blackmail
16
,
126
,
263
,
285

Bletso, Lord St John of (refused custody of MQS)
316

Blewitt, Mr (confession to priest in Marshalsea)
91

Blood Council
21

Blount, Christopher (double agent)
317

Blunt, Walter (prisoner)
138

Bodenham, Roger (spy)
280

Boleyn, Anne (wife of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth)
19
,
24
,
37
,
296
,
299

Boleyn, Mary (sister to Anne)
296

Bolton, John (prisoner)
138
,
318

Bonacampanini, Jacomo (Italian general)
90
,
291

Bond of Association
116
–
18
,
132
,
315
–
16
,
348

Borman, Simon (merchant with prisoner of war lodger)
221

Borough, William (second-in-command to Drake)
211
,
330

Bothwell, James Hepburn, Fourth Earl of (marriage to MQS)
24
,
299
,
346

Boucher, Friar (spy)
280

Bourgoing, Dominique (physician to MQS)
189
,
190
,
326

burial of MQS
272

trial of MQS
160

Bowes, Alderman
300

Bowes, Sir George (Provost Marshal; Northern Rebellion)
21
,
22
–
3
,
294
,
351

Bowes, Sir Robert (Treasurer of Berwick; English ambassador in Scotland)
334

spies
101
,
103
,
278
,
312
,
313

Bradstock, John (prisoner)
140

Bramston, Thomas (prisoner)
138
,
318

Bray, William (servant to Gilbert)
109
,
110

Brazil
220

Brereton (alias of William Holt)
103

brewer smuggling communication to MQS
121
–
5
,
129
,
133

Briant, Alexander (tortured Jesuit)
73
,
307

bribery
16
,
34
,
94
,
125
,
263

Babington plot
318
Phelippes
121

possible marriage of Elizabeth and Anjou
47

Spanish Armada
206
,
215

spies and espionage
90
,
287

Williams
292
,
343

Bridewell jail
271

Bridges, Edward (alias of Edmund Grateley)
280
,
283

Briquemault, Francois de Beauvais, Sieur de (Huguenot general)
50
,
302

Bromley, Sir Thomas (Lord Chancellor)
106
,
351

execution of MQS
180

trial of MQS
160
–
1
,
351

Bruce, Robert (spy)
280
–
1

Bruerton (alias of Rogers)
109
–
10

Brunkhard, William (conveyed lands by FW)
335

Bruno, Giordano (spy; alias Henry Fagot)
103
–
5
,
281
,
282
,
284

Buckhurst, Thomas Sackville, First Lord (Lord Treasurer)
351

execution of MQS
170
,
197

Buckley, Richard (servant to Yates)
306
–
7

Bull (executioner)
351

execution of MQS
187
–
8
,
191
,
193
,
194
–
5
,
327

Burgh, Honora de (grand-daughter of FW)
267

Burghley, Lord (formerly Sir William Cecil; Lord Treasurer)
25
,
243
,
265
,
351
,
352

anger of Elizabeth
199
–
202

appointments
344
,
346

Babington plot
145
,
149
,
320

Bailly
54
,
56

Catholic recusant imprisoned
70
,
305

ciphers
124

cost of guarding MQS
135

death
267
,
349

death of Sidney
241
–
2

Elizabeth
30
,
33
,
199
–
202
,
267
,
344
,
352

Enterprise of England
41
–
2

execution of MQS
171
,
172
–
4
,
178
,
183
–
4
,
196
–
7
,
199
–
202
,
325

FW’s death
257
,
258

FW’s ill-health
248
–
52
,
336
–
7

FW’s secret work
34
–
6
,
346

Low Countries
48
,
201

MQS
72
,
116
,
149

murder threat to Elizabeth
118
,
145
,
316
,
324

neighbour to FW
30

Norfolk
58

Parry
113
,
287

peerage
346

Phelippes
312

plan to capture Elizabeth
214

plan to kidnap Papal Legate
90

plan to murder
34

plot to overthrow Elizabeth
55
,
65
–
6

possible marriage of Elizabeth and Alencon
48

possible marriage of MQS and Norfolk
39

Prince of Orange
59

relationship with FW
30
,
33
,
34
–
6
,
43
,
46
–
8
,
298
,
346

riding accident
184

Ridolphi
41
–
2
,
58
,
300

Spanish Armada
212
,
214
,
215
–
16
,
218
–
19
,
226
,
333

spies and espionage
83
–
5
,
88
,
90
,
113
,
276
–
7
,
283
,
287
,
290
,
309
,
312

Stafford
332

Standen
268
,
269
,
290

Stewart
34

succeeds FW as Secretary of State
60
,
304

Topcliffe
308
,
340

trial of MQS
150
–
1
,
153
,
155
–
6
,
158
–
9
,
164
–
5
,
167
–
8
,
321
–
2

Burnham, Edward (spy and servant to FW)
100
,
281

Byrd, William (composer)
93
,
310

Caesar, Sir Julius (judge; FW’s debts)
257

Caines, Mr (gentleman to Lumley)
93

Calthorpe, Henry (FW’s wife’s cook)
266

Calton, John (Warden of Fleet Prison)
317

Camden, William (historian)
42
,
112
,
146
,
254
,
260

Campion, Edmund (priest)
92
,
95
,
286
,
311
,
319
,
351

canonised
72
,
351

executed
72
,
311
,
317
,
319
,
351

FW looking for
71
–
2
,
306
–
7

canonisation

Campion
72
,
351

Howard
354

Jennings
79
,
308
,
354

Kirby
355

Mayne
355

Southwell
340

Walpole
340

Carey, George
see
Hunsdon, George

Cary, First Lord Carey of Plashy, Sir John (stepfather to FW)
28
,
29
,
296

Carey, Sir Robert (debts of Phelippes)
268

Carey, William (married to Mary Boleyn)
296

Carisbrooke (FW’s estate)
31

Carle, Edward (will of FW)
253

Carleill (or Carlyle), Alexander (first husband of FW’s first wife)
351

Carleill (or Carlyle), Anne (FW’s first wife)
30
–
1
,
345
,
351

Carleill (or Carlyle), Christopher (FW’s stepson)
30
–
1
,
345
,
351
,
352

Gilbert’s voyage
246

Carleton (alias of Sherwood; prisoner)
111
,
139
,
318

Carter, Mr and Mrs (pamphleteers)
92
–
3

maybe the bookbinder
310

Cartwright, Thomas (leader of Puritans)
61

Barn Elms
266

Casey, Thomas (spy and servant to Phelippes)
99
,
281
,
288

Castagna, Archbishop John Baptista (Papal Nuncio in Madrid)
57

Castelnau, Michel de, Seigneur de la Mauvissiere (French ambassador to England)
61
,
304
,
352

letters to MQS
119
–
20

spies and espionage
88
,
101
–
5
,
281
,
282
,
284

Castlemaine, Barbara (mistress of Charles II; Nonsuch estate)
310

Catherine of Aragon (wife of Henry VIII, mother of Mary I)
19
,
24
,
27
,
244

tomb
340

Catholics and Catholicism
16
–
21
,
23
–
4
,
53
,
61
–
8
,
204
,
262

Anne of Denmark
269
,
291

Arundel, Charles
225
,
350

Babington plot
125
–
45
,
317

Bond of Association
117

communication with MQS
119
,
121
–
2
,
125

death of FW
258
–
9