God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests & the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot (67 page)

Byrd, William (composer) 116, 336

Byrd, William (informer) 276

Cadiz, Drake’s raid 3

Cahill, Hugh 239-240

Cajetan, Cardinal 282-283

Calvinism 10, 16, 101, 342

Cambridge University 25, 29, 84, 390

Camden, William 151, 285, 308

Campion, Edmund anguish of 66-67

at Oxford 42, 66-67

Bloody Question 234-236

canonization of 387

capture/trial/execution of 12-13, 89-93, 117, 127-128, 132-133, 136-137, 156

and court patronage 43, 66, 167, 201

declaration of aims 83-84

and English mission 69-74, 77-78, 80-85, 87-89, 96, 98, 103, 118, 121, 177, 274, 285

in Europe 67, 69-71

and Jesuits 67, 73-74

martyrdom 132, 135

and Pope Gregory’s
Explanatio
73

proposed biography of 132

rallying call 64-65, 166, 241

Decem Rationes
163

Canterbury, Archbishop of 61

Canterbury College, Oxford 26

Carey, Robert 295-296

Carey, Sir George 63

Carlos, Don, Prince of Asturias 261

Carne, Sir Edward 31

Carvajal, Luisa de 133-134

Castile, Constable of 323-326

Catesby, Robert 327, 328-335, 338-339, 342-347, 350-352, 354-355, 362-363, 368, 370-373, 376, 379-381, 394

Catesby, Sir William 82, 115, 274, 325

Catherine of Aragon, Queen of Henry VIII 25-26

Catholic League 158

Catholic Relief Acts 384

Catholics and Catholicism

Agnus Deis 61, 63, 70, 89
n
, 220
n

Bloody Question 34, 232-237, 241, 292, 347, 362

and confession 366-367, 370

conflict with Protestantism 4, 9-10, 14, 21, 32, 47-48, 172

converts to 80, 86-87, 98-99, 104, 106, 111-112, 128, 132-133, 165, 192, 210, 307

detention centres 278

Elizabeth’s leniency towards 34-35, 124-125

and equivocation 184-186, 188, 355, 362-363, 369-370, 372, 388

excommunication 46-47, 208

executions of 21, 26, 28, 116, 142-144, 156, 163, 188-190, 210-211, 238, 241, 242
n
, 313, 352, 360, 389

family loyalties 101

felony clause 114-115, 138

fines 215

harbouring priests 209-211

ideological certainties 51-53

in England 32-40, 42-44, 171-175, 195, 204, 232, 239-241, 257, 268, 280-281, 286, 291, 305, 318-326, 335, 346-347, 373

martyrs 63, 91, 129-131, 132-135, 143-144, 150, 169, 208, 210, 382, 387, 390

missionaries 54, 63-64, 73, 84, 115, 132, 134-137, 139-146, 195, 392, 393-394

modern attitudes towards 391-392

papal supremacy 233-237

Papists 48, 65, 79, 102, 107, 110, 115, 120, 145
n
, 204, 279, 307, 309, 335-336, 342

pastoral life of 194-195

persecution of 96, 307, 379-384

plots against James 310-314

political compromise 36-37

priesthood 13, 14, 16, 17, 21-22, 84, 98, 132-146, 321-322, 331

priests’ hiding-places 14, 113, 117-121, 140-141, 146, 154, 215, 217-218

printing presses 160-163

prison population 228-230

recusants 80, 106-109, 120, 145
n
, 177, 195, 199, 206-209, 210, 220
n
, 278, 307, 310, 315, 319-320, 335-336, 380, 382-384

religious apathy of 36-37, 49-50, 195

and religious tolerance 269, 286-289, 315, 319, 323, 332

rites 196-197, 198-200

seminarians 278-279, 281-289, 292

sins 18, 20
n

underground network 146-150, 154-155, 342-343

un-English 110-111

and women 200-202, 204-209, 210-211

Cecil, Dr John 157
n
, 287-288
n

Cecil, Sir Robert

Appellants 291, 295

and Arthur Gregory 377

and Catholic persecution 181, 217
n
, 230
n
, 241, 243
n
, 313, 320, 343
n

earldom 335
n

and Elizabeth 293, 295, 314

and Garnet 357, 360, 362, 366-367, 370-371, 375

and Gerard 241-242, 248, 352, 354

Gunpowder Plot 337, 359

and Henry Owen 275

historical perspective 385

and James I 295, 307

and Nicholas Owen 365

Oath of Allegiance 379, 382-383

Protestation of Allegiance
291-292, 295, 347

Spanish pension 324

succession question 290-291

Cecil, Sir William, later Lord Burghley 39, 41-42, 45-46, 51, 57, 65, 67, 72
n
, 79, 79
n
, 97, 107, 123, 125, 133, 159, 172, 207-208, 219
n
, 234-237, 265, 269-270, 276, 288, 394

Advice to Queen Elizabeth
235-236

Chamberlain, George 74

Chamberlain, John 303, 371-372, 385

Champney (priest) 286

Charles, Prince, later Charles I, King of England 344
n
, 385

Charles II, King of England 385-386, 389, 390

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 233

Chipping Norton 28

Christ Church College, Oxford 24, 28, 41, 43

Church of England
see
Elizabethan Religious Settlement

Circignani, Niccolo 64

Cistercian Order 26

Clarendon, Lord 290

Clark, William 310, 312-314

Clément, Jacques 158

Clement, John 28

Clement V, Pope 233

Clement VII, Pope 233

Clement VIII, Pope 286-290, 292, 293-294, 298-299, 301, 304, 324, 333-334, 336, 339, 341

Clenock, Maurice 277

Cleremont, Jesuit school 14, 98

Clink prison 145, 170
n
, 183, 223
n
, 228-232, 239, 242-243, 249, 253, 255, 275

Clitherow, Margaret 210-211, 285, 387

Cloudesley (informer) 240
n

Cobham, Lord 31, 310

Coke, Sir Edward 97, 130-131, 187-188, 217, 244, 249-250, 270, 328, 348, 351, 359, 363, 368-370

Colerdin, Jacques
see
Gifford, Gilbert

Collington, John 89, 90, 91
n
, 92

Columbus, Christopher 1
n

Constable, Henry 322

Convict prison 223
n

Conway, William 23, 114

Cooper, Thomas 88

Copley, Anthony 175, 285-286, 310-314

Copley family 167-168

Copley, Thomas, Lord 52, 53

Coram, Mrs 138

Coriat, George 43

Corpus Christi College, Oxford 28-29, 38, 133
n

Corunna 6

Cottam, Thomas 186
n

Cotton, George 175

Coughton Court 118
n
, 344-345, 351, 355, 362-363

Counter prison (Wood Street) 217, 220

Counter-Reformation 48
n
, 279

Cowdray Park 202-204

Cowper, Bishop 207

Craddock, Francis 209

Cranmer, Thomas 29, 31

Creswell, Joseph 330

Cromwell, Francis 207

Cromwell, Thomas 26
n
, 337
n

Crumwell, Henry, Lord 120-121

Cullen, Patrick 239-241, 263

Cullen Plot 263, 265

Curry, John 127
n
, 150
n
, 199
n

Dacre, Mary 99
n

Daniel, John 239-240, 241
n

David, Prince-regnant of Wales 142

Decacordon of Ten Quodlibetical Questions see
Watson, William

Decease, Release see
Southwell, Robert

Decem Rationes see
Campion, Edmund

Dekker, Thomas 223

Denbigh, Earl of 392

Derby, Earl of 111, 263

Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of
see
Strange, Lord

Dershowitz, Alan 396

Device for the Alteration of Religion
94

Dictatus Papae see
Gregory VII

Digby, Lady 343-344

Digby, Sir Everard 274, 343-345, 351, 354, 359-360

Dinley, Lord Mayor (of York) 206

Dissolution of the monasteries 26-27, 105

Dodwell, Thomas 14

Dominican Order 24, 158

Donne, John 382

Douai, English College 13, 44, 49-55, 57, 59, 62-63, 65, 67, 73, 79, 86, 145, 162, 177

Downes, Robert 19
n
, 20, 106, 108

Drake, Francis 3, 6, 72

Drewe (sergeant) 130-131

Drury, Henry 193, 212-213

Dudley, Ambrose 57

Dupont, Dr 377
n

Durham Cathedral 45

Durham College, Oxford 26, 28

Dutton, Anthony 317-318

Dyer, Sir Edward 171

Edward I, King of England 142

Edward VI, King of England 27-29, 197, 226

Edwards, Francis 144

Egerton, Sir Thomas 222
n
, 335

Eliot, George 88-91

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

attitude towards Catholics 109, 124-125, 286, 288-289, 292, 294, 305, 307

choice of religion 30-31

claim to throne 30-32

clemency 172

cost of wars 314

encourages loyalty 51-52, 123-125

excommunication of 46-47

and gender 201, 207, 260-261

ill-health/death/funeral of 258-259, 294-297, 302, 333

judge of character 309

Northern Rebellion 45-46

overthrow/assassination plots 16
n
, 70, 90-91, 126, 144, 239-241, 243
n
, 280, 328-330

and Pope Sixtus 3-4, 7

Proclamation against Catholicism 289, 291, 294

Proclamation regarding invasion 157-158

revered as Cynthia 42

royal progresses 40-44, 66, 106, 123

sister’s funeral 30

Southwell’s detention 180-182

Spanish conflict
see
Spanish Armada

State religion 9, 32-34, 195-196, 204

succession issue 260-268, 287-293, 296

suitors 42

and Topcliffe 123-126, 135, 172, 272

Elizabeth, Princess 344

Elizabethan Religious Settlement

Act of Supremacy 32

Act of Uniformity 32, 34-35

Bible 45

broad church 195-197

forced loans 109

legal basis of 90, 251

Prayer Book 34-35, 45, 197

rites and sacraments 196-198

State religion 9-10, 15, 21, 32-36, 87, 199, 228