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Cecil, William, Lord Burghley; and EI’s marriage negotiations; and MS; and RDu; and Catholic plots; illness; and alchemy; assesses safety of the realm,
1569
; on death of MS; and Lopez; and RDev; death; ‘Certain Cautions…’;
De Matrimonial Reginae
 …

Cecilia, Princess of Sweden

Châteauneuf, Baron de, French ambassador

Challoner, Sir Thomas

Chamberlain, John

Chandos, Lady (later Knollys)

Charles IX, King of France; marriage with EI negotiations; death

Charles von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria

Charnock, Thomas

Chastelard, Seigneur de

chastity

Chatsworth, Derbyshire

Chelsea; Old Manor

Cheshunt, Hertfordshire

Christmas:
1563
;
1564
;
1565
;
1568
;
1584
;
1588
;
1601

Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern

Church of England;
see also
Protestant Church; Protestants

Churchyard, Thomas:
Cupid’s Fall from Heaven

Clapham, John

Clifford, Anne

Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, 1st Earl of Lincoln

Clinton, Elizabeth Fiennes de (
née
Fitzgerald), Countess of Lincoln

Clowes, William

Cobham, Frances (
née
Newton), Lady; early life; family

Cobham, Henry

Cobham, William Brooke, Baron; and Ridolfi plot

Cockfield Hall, Suffolk

Cockrame, John

Coffer Chamber

Coke, Sir Edward

Combe, Thomas

Common Cry of Englishman, The
 …

Conference about the next succession
 …

Copy of a Letter
 …

Cordell, Sir William

Corfeu, Maniola de

cosmetics

Council of Trent

court; progresses (
1560
, 44), (
1561
), (
1578
), (
1591
), (
1600
);
see also
Bedchamber; Coffer Chamber; Presence Chamber; Privy Chamber

Cowdray, Sussex

Coxe, Fr. John

Creleto, Giocomo

Cumnor Place, Berkshire

da Gama, Esteban Ferreira

dancing

Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord; meets MS; marriage; as husband; death

Darrell, Hugh

Davison, William

de Caron, Sir Noel

De Jezebelis Anglae

de la Noue, Col.

de Maisse, André Hurault, M.

Dee, Arthur

Dee, Dr John: casts horoscope; nullifies witchcraft; and EI’s illness; children’s baptisms; Scudamores visit

Denbigh, Lord (son of RDu)

Denny, Sir Anthony

Denny, Joan (
née
Ashley)

Derby, Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of

Derby, William Stanley, 6th Earl of

Deryck, Dionisia

des Trappes, Leonard

Devereux, Dorothy

Devereux, Frances (formerly Sidney)

Devereux, Lettice
see
Knollys, Lettice

Devereux, Penelope (later Lady Rich)

Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex; early life; Portugal voyage; marriage; in France; and Lopez; and
A Conference about the next succession …
; at tilt of,
1595
; raid on Cadiz; and Lady Stanley; assassination attempt; appointed Earl Marshal; and E. Brydges; sent to Ireland; bursts into Bedchamber; house arrest; commission of enquiry; in disgrace; rebellion; trial; death; remembered; in publications

Devereux, Walter, Viscount Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex

Devereux, Walter (son of Robert)

di Como, Cardinal

Dingle, Joanna

Ditchley, Oxfordshire

Dormer, Jane

Douai seminary

Downes, Robert

Drake, Sir Francis

Drant, Thomas, Bishop

dress; security

du Perron, Cardinal:
Vers Funebres

Dudley, Ambrose, 3rd Earl of Warwick; leads French expedition; marriage; death

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

Dudley, Arthur

Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland

Dudley, John (cousin of RDu)

Dudley, John (Sergeant of the Pastry)

Dudley, Katherine (later Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon); on death of husband; subsequently

Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester; appearance; early life and career; 1st marriage; relationship with EI, (inscription in book at Windsor), (at Kenilworth) (EI learns of his marriage), (rumours and attacks in print,); plots against; death of wife; as possible husband for EI; and succession question; offered as suitor to MS; ennobled; and Duke of Norfolk; and EI’s marriage negotiations; and plot to marry MS to Norfolk; and Lady Douglas; entertains EI at Kenilworth; and Lettice Knollys, (2nd marriage); and Catholics; and Netherlands; and death of MS; and Arthur Dudley; at Tilbury; illness; death; in
A New Discourse
…:
The Metamorphosis of Ajax

Durham Cathedral

Durham Place, London

Dyer, Edward

Dymock, John

earthquake

Egerton, Sir Thomas

Egg, Augustus Leopold:
Queen Elizabeth …

Eliot, George

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

BIOGRAPHY:
birth; childhood; with K. Parr; in ToL; at Cheshunt; Hatfield; accession; coronation; first Parliament; smallpox; addresses Parliament,
1562
; ennobles Dudley; illness,
1564–5
; speaks on marriage,
1565;1565
outburst; illness,
1566
; and alchemy; petitioned to marry; addresses Parliament,
1566
; on MS’s arrival in England; Rising of the North; excommunicated; illness,
1572
; at Kenilworth; East Anglia progress,
1578
; illness,
1579
; addresses Parliament,
1584
; proclamations,
1584
; and Babington plot; and execution of MS; at Tilbury; on death of RDu;
1591
progress; hears Hutton’s sermon; hears Rudd’s sermon; meets de Maisse; at Nonsuch,
1598
; at RDev rebellion; decline; death; funeral

MARRIAGE NEGOTIATIONS:
(suitors
listed
), (Archduke Charles), (Erik of Sweden), (Charles IX of France), (Henri of Anjou), (François d’Alençon [Anjou])

PERSONAL
: appearance, (
1597
), (
1598
), (
1599
), (surprised by RDev); body, (protection),… (poems about), (after death); dancing; fertility; hair; health; intelligence; music; ring; teeth; toilet; touches for King’s evil; walking; supposed to have borne children; ageing

RELATIONSHIPS:
Anjou (François); K. Ashley; bedfellows; W. Cecil; E. Clinton; F. Cobham; RDev; RDu, (inscription in book at Windsor), (at Kenilworth), (learns of his marriage); J. Harington; C. Hatton; K. Parr; B. Parry; Ralegh; M. Scudamore; T. Seymour; M. Sidney; Simier; MS, (on MS’s, 2nd marriage), (on birth of MS’s son), (on death of Darnley), (on MS’s arrival in England) (urged to have MS executed), (and death warrant)

IMAGES
; poisoned; lewd pictures in Paris; portraits, (on coin) (
Pelican
), (
Phoenix
), (Zuccaro’s), (with Armada), (Ditchley), (‘Rainbow’), (posthumous); tomb; wax

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT
: biographies; films; poems; printed attacks

WRITINGS BY
: letters (to K. Carey), (Catherine de Medici), (R. Devereux), (RDu), (J. Harington), (Duke of Holstein), (James VI), (Lord Protector), (Earl of Shrewsbury), (M. Sidney), (E. Stafford), (MS); poems

Elizabeth I
(film)

Elizabeth II, Queen

Elkes, Thomas

embalming

Enfield

Englefield, Sir Francis

‘Enterprise of England’

Erik XIV, King of Sweden: marriage negotiations

‘Erophilus’

Essex, 1st Earl of
see
Devereux, Walter

Essex, 2nd Earl of
see
Devereux, Robert

Essex, Frances, Countess of

Essex House, London

Euston Hall, Suffolk

Felton, John

Fenelon, Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe–, French ambassador; after Huguenot massacre

Fenotus, John Anthony

Ferdinand I, Emperor

Feria, Count of, Spanish ambassador

Fernel (physician)

Fitton, Sir Edward

Fitton, Mary

Fitzalan, Henry, Earl of Arundel

Fitzgerald, Gerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

Fitzwilliam, Hugh

Fleet prison

Fletcher, Richard

Foix, Paul de, French ambassador

food; feast; gifts; precautions; serving

Fortescue, Anthony

Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire

Four Foster Children of Desire, The

France: on accession of EI; and Scotland; Huguenot massacres; civil war; English invasion;
see also
Catherine de Medici; Paris; Stafford, Sir Edward

Frances
(ship)

Franchiotto, Captain

Franckwell, Millicent

François II (formerly de Valois, Dauphin), King of France

François, Duke of Alençon
see

Fraser’s Magazine

Gargrave, Thomas

Garner, Robert

Garnet, Henry

Gascoigne, George; ‘Deep Desire’s Loyalty’;
Masque of Zabeta
;
Princely Pleasures at the Court of Kenilworth

Gawdy, Philip

Geneva

Gheeraerts, Marcus

Gifford, Gilbert

Goldborne, James

Goodman, Godfrey, Bishop

Gorboduc
(Norton and Sackville)

Gower, George

Greene, Abraham

greensickness

Greenwich Palace; Anjou at; Christmas,
1584
; chapel royal; stables

Gregory XIII, Pope

Grene, John

Greville, Fulke

Grey, Lady Elizabeth

Grey, Henry, 6th Earl of Kent

Grey, Lady Jane

Grey, Lord John of Pyrgo

Grey, Lord John (marshal at Tilbury)

Grey, Katherine
see
Seymour

Grey, Mary (later Keyes)

Guarras, Antonio de

Guildhall

Guise, Charles de, Cardinal de Lorraine

Guise, Francis, 2nd Duke of

Guise, Henry, 3rd Duke of

Gyllenstierna, Nils

Hacket, William

Hall, Hugh

Hampton Court Palace; Henry VIII and; ‘Paradise Chamber’; Christmas,
1568–9

Hancock, William

Hanworth, Middlesex

Harding, Thomas

Harington, Isabella

Harington, John

Harington, Sir John: baptism; translates Ariosto; in EI’s last months; letter to Portman; letter to wife;
A New Discourse
…:
The Metamorphosis of Ajax
;
Tract on the Succession to the Crown
;
quoted

Harrison, Thomas

Hastings, Henry, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon

Hastings, Katherine
see
Dudley, Katherine (later Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon)

Hatfield, Hertfordshire

Hatton, Sir Christopher; appearance and career; relations with EI; rumours re; assassination attempt; and death of MS; death

Havering Palace, Essex

Hawkins, Sir John

Hemingway, John

Heneage, Sir Thomas

Henri II, King of France

Henri III, King of France: as Duke of Anjou; King

Henri IV (Henri of Navarre), King of France

Henry VIII, King of England; Catholic view of; and Palaces; portrait; death; will

Hentzner, Paul

Herbert, Sir John

Herle, William

Hertford, Edward Seymour, Earl of

Hertford Castle

Hesse

Hilliard, Nicholas

Holbein, Hans

Holinshed, Raphael

Holland, Thomas

Holstein, Duke of

Holt, Father William

Holyrood Palace

Hood, William

Hopton, Sir Owen

Horne, Robert, Bishop

Howard, Catherine, Countess of Nottingham

Howard, Charles, 1st Earl of Nottingham
see
Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of

Howard, Douglas (later Sheffield, then Stafford), Lady; in
Leicester’s Commonwealth

Howard, Frances

Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey

Howard, Lord Henry

Howard, Thomas, Lord: against Armada

Howard, Thomas
see
Norfolk, 4th Duke of

Howard, William, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham

Huguenots: 1562 massacre;
1572
massacre; subsequently

Huick, Dr Robert / William

humours, the four

Hunsdon, George, Lord: in Hesse

Hunsdon, Henry Carey, Lord

Hunsdon, Hertfordshire

Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of

Huntingdon, Katherine, Countess of
see
Dudley, Katherine (later Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon)

Hutton, Matthew, Archbishop of York

‘Instrument of an Association…’ (Bond of Association)

Ireland: H. Sidney in; Tyrone rebellion; appointment of Lord Deputy; Yellow Ford massacre; RDev in; Spanish invade

Irishmen, immigrants

Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

Italy

James IV, King of Scotland

James V, King of Scotland

James VI, King of Scotland; birth; baptism; as King; on death of MS; subsequently; correspondence with Cecil; on death of EI; accession to English throne; as King James I

Jesuits: in England; propaganda; on Continent

jewels; Mary I’s; B. Parry’s

Jones, Robert

Jonson, Ben

Jonson, Sir Francis

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire

Kent, Henry Grey, 6th Earl of

Keyes, Thomas

King’s evil

Knollys, Anne

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