Sir Francis Walsingham (39 page)

4
   H. Robinson,
op.cit.,
1st ser., pp.214–5

5
   See Conyers Read,
op.cit.,
p.66

6
   
Ibid
., p.67

7
   C.T. Martin,
ed., Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham,
Camden Miscellany VI, 1870, p.2

8
   See Conyers Read,
op.cit.,
I, p.68

9
   See G. Parker,
The Grand Strategy of Philip II,
New Haven, 1998, p.162

10
   John Strype,
The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker,
1711, I, p.298

11
   Cal. S.P. For. 1569–71, 1632

12
   J. Guy,
Tudor England,
1988, p.279

13
   See G. Parker,
op.cit.,
p.101

14
   See C. Read,
Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth,
1965, p.91

15
   See A. Stewart,
Philip Sidney – A Double Life,
2000, p.88

16
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.228

17
   
Ibid.,
p.247

18
   BL. Cotton MS Vespasian Fvi, fol.261

19
   Cal. Bath MSS, p.184

1
   Walsingham & Leicester, 23 May 1586, J. Brace, ed.,
Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester . . .,
Camden Soc., 1844, p.279

2
   C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.322

3
   Cal. S.P. Span. I.468

4
   H. Robinson,
op.cit.,
2nd ser. p.286–7

5
   See S. Budiansky,
Her Majesty’s Spymaster,
2005, pp.109–110 (No source cited)

6
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose, eds.,
Elizabeth I – Collected Works,
Chicago, 2000, pp.105–6

7
   Cal Bath MSS, Dudley Papers, p.185

8
   See, C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, pp.423ff for all citations from Beale’s treatise

9
   P. Collinson,
Elizabethans,
2003, p.42

10
   Huntingdon Library, MSS HA 13067

11
   D. Digges, ed.,
The compleat ambassador,
1655, p.424

12
   See A. Hogg,
God’s Secret Agents,
2006, p.71

13
   H. Robinson,
op.cit.,
1st ser. p.314

14
   
Ibid.,
1st ser., pp.256–9

15
   Cal. S.P. For. 1575–7, pp.468–9

16
   P.W. Hasler,
The House of Commons 1558–1603,
333, 1981, p.599

17
   See P. Collinson,
Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church,
1979, p.242

18
   
Ibid.,
p.244

19
   
Ibid.,
p.245

20
   State Papers 12/113/17

21
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, pp.264–5

22
   B.L. Cotton MS Caligula C iii, fol.217

1
   H. Robinson,
Op.cit.,
1st ser., p.325

2
   See P. Collinson,
Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism,
1983, p.380

3
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, pp.377f

4
   
Ibid.,
II, p.170

5
   
Ibid.,
II, p.186

6
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose, eds.,
op.cit.,
p.169

7
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.310

8
   
Ibid.,
p.334

9
   See P. Collinson,
Archbishop Grindal,
p.262

10
   See J.H. Pollen,
The English Catholics in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,
1920, p.257

11
   See P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.460

12
   H. Robinson, ed.,
op.cit.,
I, p.332

13
   
Ibid.,
II, pp.287–8

14
   Cal. S.P. Dom. XIV, 27

15
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, pp.393–4

16
   
Ibid.,
I, p.416

17
   
Ibid.,
II, p.16

18
   Cal. S.P. Dom. Addenda, XVII, 31

19
   J.B.M.C.K. de Lettenhove,
Relations Politiques des Pays Bas et de l’Angleterre,
(1882–1900) X, p.678

20
   Cal. S.P. For. 1579, 80, 112

21
   BL. Harley MSS 540, fol. 102

22
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.57

1
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
pp.249–250

2
   D. Digges,
op.cit.,
408

3
   Cal. S.P. Span. III. 226

4
   See J.E. Neale,
Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, 1559–1581,
1953, pp.383–4

5
   
Ibid.,
pp.384–5

6
   BL., Add. MS 48023, fol. 48v; Graves 203

7
   J.E. Neale,
op.cit.,
p.402

8
   See P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.573

9
   
Talbot Papers,
Bath MSS., V, pp.33–4

10
   Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, 102

11
   
Ibid.,
1583–4, 286

12
   Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, p.459

13
   Cal. S.P. Dom. 1583–4, p.84

14
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.218

15
   
Ibid.
II, p.341

16
   Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, pp.652–3

17
   See P. Collinson,
Elizabethans,
2003, p.74n

18
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.382

19
   Cal. S.P. Dom. 1583–4, p.584

1
   Cal. S.P. For. 1583–4, pp.387–8

2
   Hatfield MSS, III, p.45

3
   See P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.181

4
   Letter to the Lord Mayor of London quoted in G. Adland,
Amye Robert and the Earl of Leicester,
1870, pp.56–7

5
   See Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.415

6
   
Ibid.,
II, p.419

7
   W. Shakespeare,
Midsummer Night’s Dream,
V.1.21

8
   W. Camden,
History of the most renowned and victorious Princess Elizabeth,
ed. W.T. MacCaffrey, Chicago, 1970, p.178

9
   See P. Collinson,
Elizabethans,
p.50

10
   P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.
II, p.37

11
   J. Ayre, ed.,
The Works of John Whitgift, DD,
Parker Society, Cambridge, 1852, II, pp.263–4

12
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
pp.178–9

13
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.52

14
   See J. Corbet, ed.,
Papers Relating to the Navy during the Spanish War
1585–1587, Navy Records Society, 1987, pp.41–2

15
   J. Bruce, ed.,
Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester . . .,
Camden Soc., 1844, p.4

16
   
Ibid.,
pp.22–24

17
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.273

18
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.139

19
   Cal. S.P. For. 1584–5, p.266

20
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.60

21
   
Ibid.,
II, p.143

22
   
Ibid.,
III, p.148

23
   See J.H. Pollen, ‘Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot’, in
Scottish History Society,
3rd ser., 3 (1922), p.126

24
   J.H. Pollen,
op.cit.,
pp.38–46

25
   J. Bruce,
op.cit.,
pp.341–2

26
   
Ibid.,
pp.420–21

27
   
Ibid.,
p.431

28
   C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.53

29
   J. Bruce,
op.cit,
pp.445–6

30
   C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.168

31
   
Ibid.,
III, p.169

32
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.189

33
   
Ibid.

1
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.265

2
   J. Bruce,
op.cit.,
p.169

3
   
Ibid.,
p.343

4
   See C. Read,
Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth,
p.374

5
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
I, p.441

6
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.296

7
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, pp.182–6

8
   See G. Parker,
The Grand Strategy of Philip II,
New Haven, 1998, p.226

9
   M. Leimon and G. Parker, ‘Treason and plot in Elizabethan England: the “fame of Sir Edward Stafford” reconsidered’, in
English Historical Review,
CU (1996), p.1154

10
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
III, p.296

11
   
Ibid.,
III p.448

12
   
Ibid.,
II, p.218

13
   
Ibid.,
II, pp.87–8

14
   P.W. Hasler,
op.cit.,
III, p.146

15
   T.E. Hartley, ed.,
Proceedings in the Parliament of Elizabeth I 1558–1581,
Leicester, 1981, p.203

16
   M. Axton,
The Queen’s Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession,
1977, p.12

17
   See E. Lodge,
Illustrations of British History,
1791, II, pp.276–7

18
   See T. Wright, ed.,
Queen Elizabeth and her Times,
1838, II, p.75

19
   J. Bruce,
op.cit.,
p.276

20
   L.S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M.B. Rose,
op.cit.,
p.321

21
   See C. Read,
Walsingham,
II, p.14

Anyone wishing to explore the life and times of Francis Walsingham in more detail will, as a starter, need to track down a copy of Conyers Read,
Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3 vols, 1925. A reprint by Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut, was produced in 1967. Read included a comprehensive survey of all the relevant archival sources available at that time and it is still relevant. The most easily accessible source material is to be found in printed calendars and collections of contemporary documents. The basic relevant volumes for Walsingham are:

Calendar of State Papers Domestic of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1856–72

Calendar of State Papers Foreign of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1863–1950 (Most of these are available on DVD)

Calendar of Letters . . . in the Archives of Simancas . . . 1892–99

Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1898–1952

Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland, 1860–1905

Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, 1864–98

Historical Manuscript Commission (HMC) Calendar of Manuscripts of Marquis of Bath at Longleat, 1904–80

HMC Calendar of Manuscripts of Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, 1883–1923

Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham
(ed. C.T. Martin), Camden Miscellany VI, 1870

Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester during his government of the Low Countries
(ed. J. Bruce) Camden Soc. Ser 1. 27, 1844

Zurich Letters, 1558–1579 (ed. H. Robinson) Parker Soc. 2 vols, 1842–5

The compleat ambassador,
or,
Two treatises of the intended marriage of Queen Elizabeth, comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir F. Walsingham . . .
(ed. D. Digges), 1655

Original Letters Illustrative of English History
(ed. H. Ellis), 1st ser., 3 vols. 1842

Relations politiques des Pays-Bas et de l’Angleterre sous la regne de Philippe II
(ed.J.M.B.C. Kervyn de Lettenhove and L. Galliodts-van Severen), 11 vols, 1882–1900

Hamilton Papers . . . illustrating the political relations of England and Scotland . . . (ed. J. Bain), 1890–92

Collection of State Papers, relating to affairs in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . . . (ed. W. Murdin), 1759

Elizabeth I Collected Works
(ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose), University of Chicago Press, 2000

The more important publicly available archive collections are:

British Library: Add. MSS 5752–5754, 30156, 33531, 33594, 35841; Egerton MSS 1693–1694, Cotton MSS, corresp. and papers, Harley MSS, corresp. and papers, expense account kept as ambassador to the Low Countries, M 488, letters to William Ashby, Egerton MS 2598, letters to Edward Wotton, Add. MS 32657, Yelverton MSS

Walsingham letter-book, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, letters and papers

Lincolnshire Archive Office, Correspondence with Lord Willoughby

National Archive, State Papers 12, 15, 46, 52, 70, PROB 11/75 PCC 33 DRURY

National Library of Scotland, correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots

Sheffield Archive Office – Wentworth Woodhouse MSS