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1.
The ‘Rainbow' portrait of Elizabeth I (AKG)

2.
The union of roses (Bridgeman)

3.
The card players (Bridgeman)

4.
Tormenting a Protestant on the rack (Cambridge University Library)

5.
Sir Francis Walsingham (Getty)

6.
Babington with his accomplices (Bridgeman)

7.
Popish plots and treasons (British Museum)

8.
Parry's assassination attempt (Hulton Archive/Getty)

9.
Elizabethan locket (Victoria & Albert Museum)

10.
Mary Queen of Scots (Getty)

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Mary's prayer book and rosary (Getty)

12.
A letter in cipher (Getty)

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Elizabeth I's effigy (National Portrait Gallery)

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p. 190
. William Parry to Elizabeth I, 14 February 1585.
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p. 226
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p. 230
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p. 259
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p. 265
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p. 288
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p. 296
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p. 311
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