God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (83 page)

Vaux, Joyce (daughter of George and Eliza Vaux) 150
n
, 316
n
, 356, 359

Vaux, Katharine (wife of Sir William Vaux, 1437–71) 9

Vaux, Katherine (daughter of William, 3rd Baron Vaux) 21, 91

Vaux, Katherine (daughter of George and Eliza Vaux, later Lady Abergavenny) 225, 356, 405

Vaux, Mary,
née
Tresham (second wife of William, 3rd Baron Vaux) xvii, 20–1, 82, 89, 90, 92, 102, 104, 113, 138, 230, 231, 233, 273, 295

Vaux, Merill (daughter of William, 3rd Baron Vaux) xvii, 3, 21, 28, 91, 100, 164, 232, 233, 235, 236, 273

Vaux/Knollys, Nicholas, ‘Earl of Banbury’ (probable son of 4th Baron Vaux) 361–3

Vaux, Sir Nicholas, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden 9–10, 15, 296
n

Vaux, Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden 10–12, 20, 134
n

Vaux, William, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden xvii, 10; hounds and hawks, love of 3, 20, 40, 225; Campion on 7–8, 12; harbours Campion at Harrowden Hall, 1580 7, 8, 41, 62, 63, 67–8; birth and childhood 8, 12, 14–15, 16, 185; citation as a recusant, 1581 12, 31, 64–6, 76, 123; becomes third Lord Vaux on death of father 19; marries Elizabeth Beaumont and after her death Mary Tresham 19–20; finances 20, 32, 92–3, 229–30, 233–4, 235, 236; Parliament, attendance at 21–2, 30–2, 35, 36, 37, 61, 62–3, 75, 161, 229–30; grants the advowson of a church living to a ‘clarke’ who becomes a priest 24; subscribes to a statement of loyalty, November 1569 28; excommunication of Elizabeth I and 30; bill ‘for coming to the church, and receiving the Communion’ and 30–1; ties up estates in a series of trusts 32–3, 92; makes proviso for dowries of daughters 32–3, 91, 214; entrusts children to custody of grandmother Elizabeth Beaumont 32; Ridolfi Plot and 36–7, 162; assault on Henry Norwich, 1576, and 38–9; claims Harrowden Hall as ‘a parish by itself’ 64–5, 75; arrested and interrogated by Mildmay 73–4, 76–7, 78, 79, 80; Lady Montagu lectures on errors of his faith 78, 80–2, 148; committed to Fleet prison 79–83, 199; letter to Lady Montagu 80–2; Star Chamber trial 83–7; secret Masses in Fleet prison 89, 90; examination of over secret Masses 90–1; expense of recusancy 91, 92, 101; conveys property to son, Henry 92; letters to Morgan, Copley and Doctor Allen 95, 96; Henry Vaux’s inheritance and 98; release from Fleet and house arrest in Hackney 99, 100; ‘submissive declaration’ 100–1; 1585 petition and 107–8, 109; involvement in Hoxton missionary fund 109–11, 161, 273; exorcisms and 112, 113; Babington and 124, 128, 129, 131; as a potential insurgent 131, 161–2; raid on Hackney house, 1586, and 137–8; transferred to custody of Archbishop of Canterbury 156, 159; attends House of Lords, 1589 161; perilous financial position 161; would he have taken up arms against his countrymen? 161–2; named as friend of Philip II 162–3; George Vaux forfeits inheritance 224; Eliza Vaux and 225; Tresham and
see
Tresham, Thomas; appeals to Parliament for permission to sell land 229–30; death 230, 236

Vaux, William (son of George and Eliza Vaux) 264–5, 356, 359, 360

Vaux, Sir William (1437–71) 9

Vavasour, Thomas 178, 343

Verney, Sir Richard 304, 305, 305
n
, 306, 309

Verstegan, Richard 198
n
, 199, 207

Waad, William 245, 246, 331, 333

Walpole, Henry, S.J. 206, 208, 211, 339

Walpole, Michael, S.J. 211, 356

Walsingham, Sir Francis xix, xx, 24; Ridolfi Plot and 34; ‘St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre’, witnesses 35–6; Cobham writes to on Catholic connections of Vaux family 92–3, 96; fears Catholic zeal in France 96; James Hill writes to on Vaux household 101–2; on ‘Leicester’s Commonwealth’ 104
n
; ‘Bond of Association’ and 106–7; informed of Hoxton fund meeting 110–11; Babington Plot and 125, 126, 127, 198; Maliverey Catilyn and 139; death 174, 190–1; endorses idea of English Catholic colony in North America 273

Ward, Margaret 4, 154–5

Ward, Mary 150, 150
n
, 316
n
, 354

Watson, Thomas 258
n

Watson, William 211–14, 212
n
, 215, 218
n
, 277–8, 335

Wells, Swithin 199
n

Wenman, Agnes, Lady 261, 265, 266, 267, 286, 301–2, 313

Wenman, Sir Richard 266, 394, 405

Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of 27, 228

Weston, William,
alias
Edmunds, S.J. 109, 109
n
, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 121, 124, 128, 130–1, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 149–50, 217

Wheeler, Humfrey 128

White Hart, Holborn 101, 129

White Lion prison, Southwark 355

White Webbs, Enfield Chase 1, 219, 271, 280, 284, 289, 293, 294, 300–1, 323, 330, 330
n
, 333, 341, 342, 344

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 164, 200

Wiburn, Percival 37–8

Widow’s Glass, The
145, 167

Wilkinson, John 351

William of Orange 96, 106, 321
n

Williams, Sara xx, 113–24, 123
n
, 130, 131, 187

Williams, Friswood 117, 121
n
, 130

Wilson, John 167, 211, 339, 355–6

Wilson, Thomas 301

Windsor, Sir William 239–40, 241

St Winifred’s Well, Wales 1, 2, 189, 286–7, 291, 305–6, 319, 320, 323, 336, 342

Wintour, Robert 283, 293, 294, 306, 327, 327
n
, 365

Wintour, Thomas 272, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 293–4, 295, 299, 300, 323, 327
n
, 330, 341, 342, 344, 348

Wisbech Castle, Cambridgeshire 131, 212–13

Wiseman, John 257

Wiseman, William 209

Wolsley, Walter 128–9, 128–9
n

women: exorcisms and 112–24; ‘fits of the mother’ 120; as recusants 148–55; widows and virgins, Elizabethan views on behaviour of 167–73; criticised for closeness to Jesuits 211–14; ‘wives & kinswomen’ of gunpowder plotters 315–20
see also
Vaux, Anne
and
Vaux, Eliza

Wood, John 47

Woodhouse, Francis 183

Worseley, William 100

Worthington boys 255, 255
n

Wright, Christopher 272, 275, 281, 283, 294, 299, 300

Wright, Dorothy 315

Wright, John 272, 275, 281, 282, 283, 294, 299, 300

Wright, William,
alias
Mr German, S.J. 354–5

Wyatt, Thomas 207–8

Wyborne, William 239

Wylford, Mr 110

Yate family 68

Yates, Hugh 101–2, 129–30

Yaxley, Father 117

Young, Richard xix, 103–4, 137–8, 209, 210

Zúñiga, Pedro de, Marquis of Flores Dávila 264–5, 352

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