III. Related Reviews
II. Letters
- Sir Edward Vere to Sir William Browne. August 14, 1603. April 30, 2022. “…the Muteneers, ouertooke his Rere before he was fully out of the Villadge, where they chardged those they founde…”.
- John Chamberlaine to Dudley Carleton, April, 12, 1603. April 18, 2021. “In London, the Privy Council had scheduled the funeral of Queen Elizabeth for the 28th of the month. Especially wise for a monarch, James would proceed slowly surely for a number of reasons, but, most particularly, in order to arrive after the funeral.”
- King James I to Privy Council, April 6, 1603. April 27, 2021. “For your owne persons we can well be content to spare your travaile, the jorny being so long; and expect you at Burghley, except anie of you that is able to abyde such travaile shall thincke fitt to come to Yorke to us.”
- Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, Venetian Secretary in England, to the Doge and Senate; March 27, 1603. March 28, 2021. "Three days after the death of Queen Elizabeth, the event has yet to be made public. Again we find him reporting rumors he is being told rather than facts.”
- Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, Venetian Secretary in England, to the Doge and Senate; March 20, 1603 [1602 O.S.]. March 22, 2021. “We get a look behind the curtain, reading the hints and statements that were available to the Venetian ambassadorial secretary, three days before the [Queen’s death], and how he interpreted them.”
- William Camden to Sir Robert Cotton. March 15, 1603 [1602 O.S.]. October 11, 2020. “Here their topic is the dying Queen Elizabeth. The Royal Court had developed a checklist of activities to be accomplished before a dying monarch should expire.”
- John Harington, to Sir Hugh Portman. [May or June] 1598. On Baron Burghley at Bath. October 30, 2023. “There is the impression that he may have traveled to a few places that he dearly loved...”.
- Sir Robert Cecil to Michael Hicks, 1598 (Undated). November 28, 2022. “When Burghley died, the question of the wardship of his three granddaughters, the daughters of Lord Oxford, who had deserted their mother and now had married again, became a burning question.”
- Sir Henry Maynard To Michael Hickes, August 20, 1597. August 23, 2020. “Michael Hickes was the
eldest son of Juliana Penn who wrote a well-known letter demanding payment from
the Earl of Oxford for the use of her inn by he and his companions.”
- Sultan Amurath III to Queen Elizabeth I, September 1589. June 14, 2018. “Most Honourable Matron of the Christian Religion, Mirror of Chastity, adorned with the Brightness of Sovereignty and Power amongst the most chast Women of the People which serve Jesu, Mistress of great Kingdoms, reputed of greatest Majesty and Praise among the Nazarites, Elizabeth, Queen of England, to whom we wish a happy and prosperous reign.”
- Christian Huygens to the Lords of the English Privy Council. August 18, 1588. August 13, 2022. “The Pope may already have consecrated the orb and scepter he intended to send Parma upon the latter’s successful landing along the English coast at Kent.”
- Thomas Doyley to the Earl Of Leicester, November 24, 1585. August 18, 2020. “…enemies goods were found in our ship, namely, the Earl of Oxfords, which they proved by letters of my Lord Treasurers to him, wherein he wrote of her Majesties grante of the commanding of horsemen, which letter one of the Earl of Oxfords chamber brought over in our boate, with his monie, apparel, wine, and venison, etc.”
- Baron Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton, March 12, 1582 [O.S.] April 17, 2022. “…tending to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord of Oxford and Mr. Thomas Knyvet…”.
The Mayor of London to Lord Burghley. January 14, 1582. Preparations for the Government during the plague. November 18, 2024. “Not just government officials but their clerks and servants, the various laborers that will present themselves to transport the sudden deluge of goods through the area, ...”
- Thomas Churchyard to Sir Christopher Hatton. July 20, 1581. October 14, 2020. “if I have failed of my dutie willinglie, let me feele the price of it. I crave no pardone”.
- Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton. July 13, 1581. September 23, 2020. “Yet yesterdaye being advertised of your good and honorable dealing with her Majestie, in the case of my daughter of Oxford, I would not suffer my thankes to growe above one daye olde,…”
- Thomas Churchyard to Sir Christopher Hatton, July 10, 1581. August 12, 2020. “A souldier shoulde rather snatch, than stande at worlde's benevolence: but no man appoynts his own portion, and men often fare the worse for snatching too bouldly.”
- Thomas Churchyard to Sir Christopher Hatton, June 23, 1581. July 28, 2020. “But God knoweth, every thinge went awrye, and I stuck faste in the stockes, among many wild wolves and cruell tygers in the shapes of men, who would have worryed and torne me in pieces, had not the Kinge' s goodness garded me, such is their uncivill manner and malice, and such kancred stomaks they beare to an Englishman.”
- John Hatcher to Baron Burghley, June 21, 1580. August 24, 2020. “whereas it hath pleased your honor to recommend unto me, and the Heads of the University, my Lord of Oxenford his Players”
- Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Christopher Hatton, August 28, 1579. September 9, 2020. “As for the matter depending betwene the Earle of Oxford and me, certaynly, Sir, howsoever I might have forgiven hym, I should never have forgiven myself,…”
- Sir Francis Walsingham to John Sturmius, Oct. 27, 1576. May 06, 2018. “Of special interest should be the reference to one “Lewin”. He is William Lewin, a graduate of Cambridge and the young servant of Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who…”.
- Earl of Northumberland to Baron Burghley, March 22, 1576. September 2, 2020. “with my wyfe's harty commendations, and myne to my Lady of Oxforthe”.
- Sir Walter Mildmay to Baron Burghley, July 27, 1574. July 27, 2020. “Of my Lord of Oxford's returne I am glad to heare. I trust this little jorney will make him love home the better herafter. It were great pytie he shold not go strayt,…”
- The Gossip from Queen Elizabeth's Court, May 11, 1573. November 5, 2022. “My Lord of Oxford is lately grown into great credit; for the Queen's Majesty delighteth more in his personage, and his dancing, and valiantness, than any other.”
- Lord Burghley to John Sturmius, Sept. 15, 1572. April 22, 2018. "W. Ron Hess has suggested that Sturmius was a spy station-master and money launderer for the infamous spy network of Francis Walsingham and the Baron Burghley and that Edward de Vere's visit, in 1575, was a spy mission."
- John Lee to Lord Burghley, March 18, 1571/2. November 10, 2024. “In March 1572, England was trying to recover from rebellions in the Catholic north of the country to place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne.”
- Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon to Catherine de Medici, February 15, 1569. January 14, 2024. “In 1569, Queen Mother Catherine de Medici and Queen Elizabeth Tudor were two of the most savvy rulers in Europe.”
- Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scots, December 21, 1568. August 18, 2020. “as we have bene very sory of long tyme, for your mishappes and great troubles, so find we our sorrowes now doubled”.
- Lord John Gray to Sir William Cecil, November 7, 1563. August 24, 2020. “My good cousen I have heerin enclosed the coppie of my neyces letter to the Queenes Mageste, wherin I am to crave your fryndly advyes and counsel…”
- Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London, to William Cecil, October 15, 1563. June 18, 2023. “ As I am glad to hear that your disease diminisheth, so I am sorry it hangeth on you so long.... I will be bold to communicate unto you my conjecture of the cause thereof, and of the means to avoid the like hereafter”
- William Cecil to Sir Thomas Smith, August 20, 1563. November 29, 2020. “They dye in London above one thousand in a weke.”
- Bishop Quadra to King Philip II, June 20, 1562. January 10, 2021. “…gratifyingly many details of Queen Elizabeth’s court and her relations to the rest of Europe. It is the kind of behind the scenes look that…”
- Bishop Quadra to the Duke of Alva, June 6, 1562. January 3, 2021. “It is a case of a servant of mine who has been bribed by the Queen's ministers and has divulged a host of things prejudicial to private persons and, even in public matters, has laid more on to me than he could truthfully do.”
- Sir John Mason to Principal Secretary Sir William Cecil. January 28, 1562. September 27, 2020. “The people of Elizabeth's realm from the highest to the lowest had constantly been imploring her to marry and provide a (male) heir since her coronation. Suddenly, the woman arguably next in line to her in order of royal blood had an heir handy…”
- Congregation in Scotland to the Queen Regent, October 19, 1559. November 15, 2020. “Assuringe your Heighenes that yf ye in refusinge the same declare therby your [evil] Mynde towards the commen Weele of this Realme or Nation, and libertie of the same, we wyll withowte delay…”
- Catherine de Medici to Queen Elizabeth I, September 11, 1559. September 3, 2023. Catherine de Medici Thanks Queen Elizabeth for Her Condolences.
- John Calvin to Sir William Cecil [after January 29, 1559]. July 14, 2020. “Two years ago John Knox asked of me, in a private conversation, what I thought about [government by] women. I candidly replied, that as it was a deviation from the original and proper order of nature,…”
- Queen Mary I to Henry Bedingfeld, 21 May 1554. February 28, 2021. “On the morning of May 21, 1554, Princess Elizabeth embarked from the royal palace at Richmond,...”
- Queen Mary I to Princess Elizabeth, January 26, 1553 [1554 N.S.] February 1, 2021. “Right dear and entirely beloved Sister, We greet you well: And where certain evil-disposed persons…”
- Antoine de Noailles to the King of France. September 22, 1553. November 20, 2020. “Here the French ambassador, Noailles, takes a moment out from other matters to describe Mary’s progress in forcing her sister Elizabeth to adopt the Catholic practice of her Monarch.”
- Robert Tyrwhyt to the Duke of Somerset, February 19, 1548. September 15, 2020. “She took the Matter so hevely, that she wepte all that Nyght, and lowred all the next Day,…”
- Princess Elizabeth to the Duke of Somerset. January 28, 1548. September 19, 2020. ‘And after the Quene was departed, whan I asked of her what Newes she harde from London, she answered merilye, “The[y] say ther that your Grace shal have my Lord Admiral, and that he wil come shortly to woue you.”’
- Robert Tyrwhytt, to the Lord Protector. January 22, 1548. October, 24, 2020. “that boyth Mestrys Ashlay and her Cofferer was put into the Towre, she was marvelous abashede, and ded weype very tenderly a long Tyme”.
- Princess Elizabeth to King Edward VI, May 15, 1547. July 21, 2020. "My pictur I mene, in wiche if the inward good mynde towarde your grace might as wel be declared as the outwarde face and countenance shal be seen,..."
- Eustace Chapuys to Emperor Charles V., December 16, 1533. September 8, 2020. “Eustace Chapuys, describes the distressing experience Princess Mary endured having her title removed, her household dissolved and being assigned as a servant in the house of her half-sister, baby Elizabeth.”
- Eustace Chapuys to Emperor Charles V., September 15, 1533. September 6, 2020. “Here the ambassador is pleading with the councilors to the King to persuade him not to take the title of Princess from Mary. In the process he leaves us a colorful picture of Court diplomacy, courtiers’ fear of angering Henry and the uniform changes attendant upon a princess being demoted.”
- Eustace Chapuys to Emperor Charles V., September 10, 1533. September 1, 2020. “On Sunday last, on the eve of Lady Day, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the King's mistress was delivered of a girl, to the great disappointment and sorrow of the King, of the Lady herself, and of others of her party,…”
- Queen Anne Boleyn to Squire Josselin, September 7, 1533. August 30, 2020. “…ye goodness of Almighty God of his infinite mercy and grace to send unto vs at this tyme good speed in ye deliverance and bringing forth of a Princess to ye great joye and inward comfort of my lord.”
- Thomas Cromwell to Stephen Vaughan, May 1531. A Letter to Make a Courtier's Blood Run Cold. May 11, 2023. “his highness nothing liked the said book being filled with Seditious, Slanderous lies and Fantastical opinion“
- Mary Queen-Dowager of France to her Brother, Henry VIII. February 15, 1515. November 8, 2020. “If so, Francis was a remarkably good sport and she a remarkable negotiator for the man of her heart.”
- Mary Queen-Dowager of France to her Brother, Henry VIII. Late January, 1515. October 6, 2020. “Mary’s nervousness that Henry will choose to go back on his promise to allow her to marry by her own choice after the death of her much older arranged husband French King Louis XII is almost as evident as Henry’s and Wolsey’s nervousness that they might not be able to find a way out of it.”
- Henry VIII. to the French Minister. January 14, 1515. October 4, 2020. “Only a month or so before Louis’ final breath, Mary’s true love, the Duke of Suffolk, returned to England from her marriage party, apparently informing Cardinal Wolsey, upon his return, that the French king did not have long to live.”
