The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (68 page)
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Authors: John Cooper
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Drawing of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay, 8 February 1587.
Title-page of
General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation
, John Dee, 1577. Elizabeth I sails the ship of state towards the new world.
Image of Ireland,
John Derricke, 1581. ‘An armed company of the kerne attack and burn a farmhouse’.
Captain Christopher Carleill
by Robert Boissard (engraver) after unknown artist, c.1593. Lacking a son of his own, Walsingham remained close to his step-son from his first marriage.
Indian Woman and Young Girl,
John White, 1585–6. The girl holds an Elizabethan doll traded with the English.
The Spanish Fleet off the Coast of Cornwall on 29 July 1588
, 1590. Lord Henry Seymour credited Walsingham with fighting Spain ‘more with your pen than many have in our English navy’.
About the Author
John Cooper studied and taught history at Oxford before moving to the University of York. His first book explored the power of propaganda in Tudor England, and he co-edited the catalogue of the ‘Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill’ exhibition at the Tower of London. He is currently working on the sixteenth-century Palace of Westminster.
John regularly gives public lectures on the Tudors and writes for the
Times Literary Supplement
. He lives in North Yorkshire with his wife, the author Suzanne Fagence Cooper, and their two daughters.
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First published in 2011
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Table of Contents
Map
Prologue
1 Exodus
2 Massacre at Paris
3 Armed with Innocence
4 The English Mission
5 Security Services
6 Bonds and Ciphers
7 Western Planting
8 Eleventh Hour
Acknowledgements
Index
Plates
About the Author
By the Same Author
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