English Renaissance
II. Letters Index
A. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
II. Letters
II. Letters
A. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
- John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, March 9, 1622. June 20, 2024. "The Lord Chamberlain mentioned was, of course, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke,..."
- John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, October 27, 1621. June 18, 2024. "...he hath his pension from a I00 marks increased to 200li per annum...".
- Earl of Pembroke to the Earl Of Shrewsbury. October 16, 1604. February 13, 2023. "Susan de Vere, daughter of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was also in attendance at Court. In early December of 1603, she was one of a small number of English ladies invited by the French ambassador to an ambassadorial dinner."
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to King James; January 30, 1603 [1604 N.S.]. March 14, 2021. “Seeing that it has pleased your Majesty of your most gracious inclination to Justice & right to restore me to be keeper of your game as well in your forest of Waltham…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; June 16, 1603. February 21, 2021. “I am answered, by his letter, that he cannot do the same, unless he be warranted by six of the Council’s hands,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; June 12, 1603. February 14, 2021. “The cause is right, the king Just, and I do not doubt but your Lordships both my honorable friends,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; May 7, 1603. February 7, 2021. “…truth is subject to no prescription, for truth is truth though never so old, and time cannot make that false which was once true.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; April 25, 27, 1603. March 8, 2021. “For by reason of my infirmity, I cannot come among you so often as I wish. And by reason my house is not so near,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; March 22, 1602 [1601 O.S.] January 30, 2021. “…my desire is to know her Majesty’s pleasure touching my desire of her patent,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, November 22, 1601. January 17, 2021. “I shall desire you to hold me for excused, since ever since the receipt thereof by reason of my sickness I have not been able to write.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, October 7, 1601. January 10, 2021. “My very good Brother, If my health had been to my mind I would have been before this at the Court,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, May 11, 1601. December 28, 2020. “I vow to god to acknowledge to you in all faith, kindness and love, and in whatsoever I may stand yow in stead which according to my estate now is little”.
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, [May 1601]. December 13, 2020. “my own disposition to yourself, which has been rooted by long and many familiarities of a more youthful time”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, [July 1600]. December 6, 2020. “after so many trials made in vain, & so many opportunities escaped, the effects of fair words, or fruits of golden promises.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil. February 2, 1600. December 20, 2020. “we be knit near in alliance so hereafter more nearer by good and friendly offices.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Queen Elizabeth; June 1599. July 10, 2021. “And to make me more wonder, my wife coming from the court, told me that your Majesty said to her you heard not that there was any money gotten.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil; June 1599. July 4, 2021. “Now it moves me not a little, that I should be thus set a work for her Majesty’s service, and when with my great labor I have effected it, to be thus mocked…”
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.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Thomas Egerton (?), likely 1598. July 18,2021. “And for so much as They have wrought so cunningly that before ever I could have knowledge thereof they had gotten her Majesty’s hand,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 8, 1597. November 22, 2020. “…me thinks his offers very honorable, his desires very reasonable. Again being a thing agreeable to your lordship’s fatherly care and love to my daughter.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, January 11, 1597. November 29, 2020. “But his shifts and knaveries are so gross and palpable, that doubting to bring his parts and jugglings to light, he does address his petition against her that is utterly ignorant of the cause.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, September 6, 1596. November 15, 2020. “The Earl of Derby should have set his hand and seal to this copy, as he had done to yours, but his promises, being but delays and shifts, in the mean season,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, March 14, 1596. June 27, 2021. “And whereas I received a most favorable message from your Lordship by your servant Hicks…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, October 21, 1595. November 11, 2020. “…the forest of Waltham, & the park of Havering, my evidences show me a certain right to the same,…”.
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, October 20, 1595. October 23, 2020. “I was a suitor to her Majesty, for her favor thus far, that my right which I did not doubt, to the forest of Waltham & park of Havering…”.
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; August 7, 1595. June 19, 2021. “Also so long as it shall be held a firm opinion, that the Lord of Buckhurst shall have the suit upon easier conditions then myself it is hard for me to make it so commodious as indeed otherwise I may.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 15, 1595. June 12, 2021. “Now my Lord I leave to your judgment whether ten thousand pound a year be better to the Queen then four.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 14, 1595. June 7, 2021. “For I would be loath that her Majesty being drawn on with frivolous devises, should lose some eight or ten thousand pound this year, and after be said that it was through my vain motions,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 13, 1595. May 31, 2021. “I would be glad, that Alderman Catcher might have warrant to join with Middleton, for my own satisfaction,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 7, 1595. May 23, 2021. “For the sending down of Middleton alone, a man wholly disposed to that party against which I inform, I do not think myself indifferently dealt withal,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, April 24, 1595. October 11, 2020. “I do understand by my daughter how good an uncle she finds you, and how ready to befriend her,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 17, 1595. May 16, 2021. “I assure your Lordship I neither showed him or any other, any letter of yours.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 13, 1595. May 10, 2021. “But if it will please her Majesty to nominate me, for the Preemption and transportation, and be content to give me time,…”
- Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 9, 1595. May 5, 2021. “I was the first that offered 3000l to her majesty when as there was but a 1000 marks proffered by others,…”
- Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 1, 1595. April 27, 2021. “Thus most earnestly desiring your Lordship’s favour, I do crave her Majesty’s resolution,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 28, 1595. April 10, 2021. “…the great quantity of Tins whereof her Majesty is yearly deceived in her Custom.”
- Earl of Oxford to Michael Hicks; March 28, 1595. April 17, 2021. “I am not able nor fit to look into that place, being yet no better recovered, if it shall please his Lordship at his best leisure to take so much pains, as to look into my daughter Derby’s house or mine,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 25, 1595. April 4, 2021. “I confess that he was the first that dealt in it to cozen her Majesty but not to profit her,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 23, 1595. [1594 O.S.] March 28, 2021. “Thus it appears that 8000l or thereabouts, buys up the first coinage,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 20, 1595. March 21, 2021. “if her Majesty any kind of way can be persuaded to disburse forth her money. For whereas that for which was demanded 40tie or 30tie thousand pounds,…”
- John Lyly to Queen Elizabeth, 1595: a Letter of Petition. July 18, 2022. “In 1583, De Vere bought the distressed lease for the Blackfriars theater.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, July 7, 1594. October 4, 2020. “But hoping that the same disposition still remains, towards the justness of my cause,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, October 25, 1593. September 28, 2020. “But I found that so displeasing unto her, that in place of receiving that ordinary favor, which is of course granted to the meanest subject, I was browbeaten, and had many bitter speeches given me.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, circa June 30, 1591. January 3, 2021. “As I desired of your Lordship by my letters when first this trouble began to break out,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, May 18, 1591. September 19, 2020. “So shall my children be provided for, myself at length settled in quiet, and I hope your lordship contented, remaining no cause for you to think me an evil father,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 8, 1590. September 13, 2020. “But since he has taken a violent course, and refuses reasonable offers, I have sent Hampton…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, before August 5, 1590. September 5, 2020. “…otherwise there is not any will deal with me for the same, nor for any part thereof,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, before June 25, 1586. August 22, 2020. “…yet am I one that hath long besieged a fort and not able to compass the end or reap the fruit of his travail, being forced to levy his siege for want of ammunition.”
- 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.”
- Letter: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, before October 30, 1584. August 28, 2020. “And I think very strange that your Lordship should enter into that course towards me, whereby I must learn that I knew not before, both of your opinion and good will towards me.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, 1583. August 16, 2020. “I count my greatest stay, and by your lordship’s friendly usage and sticking by me in this time wherein I am hedged in with so many enemies”.
- Baron Burghley to Christopher Hatton, March 12, 1582/3. December 9, 2023. “...it pleaseth Him to afflict my Lord of Oxford in this sort, who hath, I confess, forgotten his duty to God.”
- Letter: John Lyly to Baron Burghley, July 1582. May 28, 2023. “... my most humble suit therefore unto your L[ordship]. is that my accusations be not smothered...”
- 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,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, July 1581. July 8, 2020. “…but the world is so cunning, as of a shadow they can make a substance, and of likelihood a truth.”
- George North to William Herle, January 3, 1581 [N.S.]. January 18, 2024. “...were examined at my Lord Chancellor's, (Monsieur Le Comte de O[xford] (as I hear) being their accuser)...”
- 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,…”
- Letters: Baron Burghley to Earl of Oxford, January 1, 1577. February 6, 2022. “I cannot, my Lord, see this old year passed with such disgraces,…”
- 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…”.
- William Lewin to Johannes Sturmius, September 8, 1576. May 8, 2023. “I perceive that you inquire respecting the earl of Oxford, whether he also did not recommend your case to Paulet.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, July 13, 1576. July 29, 2020. “My very good lord, Yesterday, at your Lordship’s earnest request, I had some conference with you about your daughter,…”
- 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”.
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, January 3, 1576. July 25, 2020. “And to stop my creditors’ exclamations or rather defamations I may call them I shall desire your Lordship by the virtue of this letter…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, November 27, 1575. July 19, 2020. “Having the opportunity to write by this bearer who departs from us here in Padua,…”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 24, 1575. July 11, 2020. “By reason of my great charges of travel and sickness I have taken up of Mr. Baptisto Nigrone 500 crowns, which I shall desire your Lordship to see there repaid.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, March 18, 1575. July 7, 2020. "...it has pleased him to make me a father where your Lordship is a grandfather..."
- Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon to King Henry III, January 24, 1575. August 26, 2023. “It seems that the Earl of Oxford must be the chief of the said enterprise,...”
- 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.”
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, October 31, 1572. July 2, 2020. "I hope now, with your Lordship’s indifferent judgment, to be more plausible unto you than heretofore, through my careful deeds, to please you,..."
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 1572. June 14, 2020. “I must confess my negligence and too little care with the too too much trust I have put to some over mine own doings.”
- Sir Thomas Gresham to Baron Burghley, May 28, 1572. “It may like you to understand, that I have in a Readiness 2000 Marks for to pay to my Lord of Oxford,...”
- John Lee to Lord Burghley, March 18, 1571/2. November 10, 2024. “...the Earl of Oxford, who has been a most humble suitor for him...”
- Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, January 20, 1571. May 28, 2024. “My cousin of Oxford is too negligent in his friend's causes,...”.
- Letters: Earl of Oxford to William Cecil, November 1569. June 6, 2020. “heretofore you have given me your good word to have me see the wars and services in strange and foreign places”
- Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon to Catherine de Medici, February 15, 1569. January 14, 2024. “...the Earl of Oxford... would like the Queen, his Mistress, to give him leave to go and serve the King...”
