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Authors: Derek Wilson
4
H. Robinson,
op.cit.,
1st ser., pp.214–5
5
See Conyers Read,
op.cit.,
p.66
6
Ibid
., p.67
7
C.T. Martin,
ed., Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham,
Camden Miscellany VI, 1870, p.2
8
See Conyers Read,
op.cit.,
I, p.68
9
See G. Parker,
The Grand Strategy of Philip II,
New Haven, 1998, p.162
10
John Strype,
The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker,
1711, I, p.298
11
Cal. S.P. For. 1569–71, 1632
12
J. Guy,
Tudor England,
1988, p.279
13
See G. Parker,
op.cit.,
p.101
14
See C. Read,
Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth,
1965, p.91
15
See A. Stewart,
Philip Sidney – A Double Life,
2000, p.88
16
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.228
17
Ibid.,
p.247
18
BL. Cotton MS Vespasian Fvi, fol.261
19
Cal. Bath MSS, p.184
1
Walsingham & Leicester, 23 May 1586, J. Brace, ed.,
Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester . . .,
Camden Soc., 1844, p.279
2
C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.322
3
Cal. S.P. Span. I.468
4
H. Robinson,
op.cit.,
2nd ser. p.286–7
5
See S. Budiansky,
Her Majesty’s Spymaster,
2005, pp.109–110 (No source cited)
6
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose, eds.,
Elizabeth I – Collected Works,
Chicago, 2000, pp.105–6
7
Cal Bath MSS, Dudley Papers, p.185
8
See, C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, pp.423ff for all citations from Beale’s treatise
9
P. Collinson,
Elizabethans,
2003, p.42
10
Huntingdon Library, MSS HA 13067
11
D. Digges, ed.,
The compleat ambassador,
1655, p.424
12
See A. Hogg,
God’s Secret Agents,
2006, p.71
13
H. Robinson,
op.cit.,
1st ser. p.314
14
Ibid.,
1st ser., pp.256–9
15
Cal. S.P. For. 1575–7, pp.468–9
16
P.W. Hasler,
The House of Commons 1558–1603,
333, 1981, p.599
17
See P. Collinson,
Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church,
1979, p.242
18
Ibid.,
p.244
19
Ibid.,
p.245
20
State Papers 12/113/17
21
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, pp.264–5
22
B.L. Cotton MS Caligula C iii, fol.217
1
H. Robinson,
Op.cit.,
1st ser., p.325
2
See P. Collinson,
Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism,
1983, p.380
3
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, pp.377f
4
Ibid.,
II, p.170
5
Ibid.,
II, p.186
6
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose, eds.,
op.cit.,
p.169
7
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.310
8
Ibid.,
p.334
9
See P. Collinson,
Archbishop Grindal,
p.262
10
See J.H. Pollen,
The English Catholics in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,
1920, p.257
11
See P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.460
12
H. Robinson, ed.,
op.cit.,
I, p.332
13
Ibid.,
II, pp.287–8
14
Cal. S.P. Dom. XIV, 27
15
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, pp.393–4
16
Ibid.,
I, p.416
17
Ibid.,
II, p.16
18
Cal. S.P. Dom. Addenda, XVII, 31
19
J.B.M.C.K. de Lettenhove,
Relations Politiques des Pays Bas et de l’Angleterre,
(1882–1900) X, p.678
20
Cal. S.P. For. 1579, 80, 112
21
BL. Harley MSS 540, fol. 102
22
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.57
1
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
pp.249–250
2
D. Digges,
op.cit.,
408
3
Cal. S.P. Span. III. 226
4
See J.E. Neale,
Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, 1559–1581,
1953, pp.383–4
5
Ibid.,
pp.384–5
6
BL., Add. MS 48023, fol. 48v; Graves 203
7
J.E. Neale,
op.cit.,
p.402
8
See P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.573
9
Talbot Papers,
Bath MSS., V, pp.33–4
10
Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, 102
11
Ibid.,
1583–4, 286
12
Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, p.459
13
Cal. S.P. Dom. 1583–4, p.84
14
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.218
15
Ibid.
II, p.341
16
Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, pp.652–3
17
See P. Collinson,
Elizabethans,
2003, p.74n
18
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.382
19
Cal. S.P. Dom. 1583–4, p.584
1
Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, pp.387–8
2
Hatfield MSS, III, p.45
3
See P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.181
4
Letter to the Lord Mayor of London quoted in G. Adland,
Amye Robert and the Earl of Leicester,
1870, pp.56–7
5
See Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.415
6
Ibid.,
II, p.419
7
W. Shakespeare,
Midsummer Night’s Dream,
V.1.21
8
W. Camden,
History of the most renowned and victorious Princess Elizabeth,
ed. W.T. MacCaffrey, Chicago, 1970, p.178
9
See P. Collinson,
Elizabethans,
p.50
10
P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.
II, p.37
11
J. Ayre, ed.,
The Works of John Whitgift, DD,
Parker Society, Cambridge, 1852, II, pp.263–4
12
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
pp.178–9
13
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.52
14
See J. Corbet, ed.,
Papers Relating to the Navy during the Spanish War
1585–1587, Navy Records Society, 1987, pp.41–2
15
J. Bruce, ed.,
Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester . . .,
Camden Soc., 1844, p.4
16
Ibid.,
pp.22–24
17
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.273
18
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.139
19
Cal. S.P. For. 1584–5, p.266
20
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.60
21
Ibid.,
II, p.143
22
Ibid.,
III, p.148
23
See J.H. Pollen, ‘Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot’, in
Scottish History Society,
3rd ser., 3 (1922), p.126
24
J.H. Pollen,
op.cit.,
pp.38–46
25
J. Bruce,
op.cit.,
pp.341–2
26
Ibid.,
pp.420–21
27
Ibid.,
p.431
28
C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.53
29
J. Bruce,
op.cit,
pp.445–6
30
C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.168
31
Ibid.,
III, p.169
32
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.189
33
Ibid.
1
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.265
2
J. Bruce,
op.cit.,
p.169
3
Ibid.,
p.343
4
See C. Read,
Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth,
p.374
5
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.441
6
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.296
7
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, pp.182–6
8
See G. Parker,
The Grand Strategy of Philip II,
New Haven, 1998, p.226
9
M. Leimon and G. Parker, ‘Treason and plot in Elizabethan England: the “fame of Sir Edward Stafford” reconsidered’, in
English Historical Review,
CU (1996), p.1154
10
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.296
11
Ibid.,
III p.448
12
Ibid.,
II, p.218
13
Ibid.,
II, pp.87–8
14
P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.146
15
T.E. Hartley, ed.,
Proceedings in the Parliament of Elizabeth I 1558–1581,
Leicester, 1981, p.203
16
M. Axton,
The Queen’s Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession,
1977, p.12
17
See E. Lodge,
Illustrations of British History,
1791, II, pp.276–7
18
See T. Wright, ed.,
Queen Elizabeth and her Times,
1838, II, p.75
19
J. Bruce,
op.cit.,
p.276
20
L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.321
21
See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.14
Anyone wishing to explore the life and times of Francis Walsingham in more detail will, as a starter, need to track down a copy of Conyers Read,
Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3 vols, 1925. A reprint by Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut, was produced in 1967. Read included a comprehensive survey of all the relevant archival sources available at that time and it is still relevant. The most easily accessible source material is to be found in printed calendars and collections of contemporary documents. The basic relevant volumes for Walsingham are:
Calendar of State Papers Domestic of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1856–72
Calendar of State Papers Foreign of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1863–1950 (Most of these are available on DVD)
Calendar of Letters . . . in the Archives of Simancas . . . 1892–99
Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1898–1952
Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland, 1860–1905
Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, 1864–98
Historical Manuscript Commission (HMC) Calendar of Manuscripts of Marquis of Bath at Longleat, 1904–80
HMC Calendar of Manuscripts of Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, 1883–1923
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham
(ed. C.T. Martin), Camden Miscellany VI, 1870
Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester during his government of the Low Countries
(ed. J. Bruce) Camden Soc. Ser 1. 27, 1844
Zurich Letters, 1558–1579 (ed. H. Robinson) Parker Soc. 2 vols, 1842–5
The compleat ambassador,
or,
Two treatises of the intended marriage of Queen Elizabeth, comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir F. Walsingham . . .
(ed. D. Digges), 1655
Original Letters Illustrative of English History
(ed. H. Ellis), 1st ser., 3 vols. 1842
Relations politiques des Pays-Bas et de l’Angleterre sous la regne de Philippe II
(ed.J.M.B.C. Kervyn de Lettenhove and L. Galliodts-van Severen), 11 vols, 1882–1900
Hamilton Papers . . . illustrating the political relations of England and Scotland . . . (ed. J. Bain), 1890–92
Collection of State Papers, relating to affairs in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . . . (ed. W. Murdin), 1759
Elizabeth I Collected Works
(ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose), University of Chicago Press, 2000
The more important publicly available archive collections are:
British Library: Add. MSS 5752–5754, 30156, 33531, 33594, 35841; Egerton MSS 1693–1694, Cotton MSS, corresp. and papers, Harley MSS, corresp. and papers, expense account kept as ambassador to the Low Countries, M 488, letters to William Ashby, Egerton MS 2598, letters to Edward Wotton, Add. MS 32657, Yelverton MSS
Walsingham letter-book, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, letters and papers
Lincolnshire Archive Office, Correspondence with Lord Willoughby
National Archive, State Papers 12, 15, 46, 52, 70, PROB 11/75 PCC 33 DRURY
National Library of Scotland, correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots
Sheffield Archive Office – Wentworth Woodhouse MSS