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‘cult of Elizabeth’ 298

Cumberland 97

Cumberland, Earls of 234, 331, 359

Cumnor Place 49

Curle, Gilbert 239

currency 28

the Curtain 268

Cyfeiliog 158

d’Alençon, François, Duc 108–9, 112, 144, 158, 183, 185, 186

d’Angoulême, Duc 110

d’Anjou, François, Duc 185, 186, 188, 190

d’Anjou, Henri, Duc 108, 110

D’Esneval, French Ambassador 234

d’Orléans, Marie-Louise, Duchesse de Montpensier 39

Dacre, Leonard 101–2

dame schools 122

Dante 84, 368

Danvers, Sir Charles 360

Darlington 95

Darnley, Lord 57–8, 95–6

Daunce, William 70

Davies, John 84

Davies, John (the pirate) 90

Davison, William 186, 237

Dawkins, William 139

de Bazan, Don Alvaro 246

de Beauvais, François, Sieur de Briquemault 111

de Belièvre 236

de Bonilla, Fernandez 23

de Bry, Theodore 214

de Coligny, Admiral Gaspard 109

de Contreras, Moya 23

de Feria, Count, Spanish Ambassador 28, 43, 48, 49, 52

de Figuerosa, Gomez Suarez
see
de Feria, Count

de Freitas, Lançarote 16

de Guise, Ducs 110

de Halut, Rémy 246

de La Force, Seigneur 110

de la Mothe Fénèlon, Bertrand 130

de la Ramée, Pierre 111

de la Warr, Lord 340

de Leiva, Alonso 252, 260

de Maisse, Sieur, André Hurault 344–5

de’ Medici, Catherine 55, 108, 109, 112, 189

de Motteville, Françoise Bertaut 39

de Pisan, Christine 39

de Quadra, Bishop, Spanish Ambassador 50–2

de Simier, Jean 187, 189–90

de Spes, Spanish Ambassador 99

de Urquiza, Juanos 15

de Valdés, Don Pedro 249, 252, 253

de Vere, Edward
see
Oxford, Earl of

de Witt, John 317

death in childbirth 188, 189

DeBry, Theodore 228

Dee, George 24

Dee, Dr John 29, 85–91, 141, 224, 273, 292,

‘British Empire’ 34, 219
and Giordano Bruno 318, 319, 321, 325
Warden Manchester College 94, 261

Defoe, Daniel 297

Dekker, Thomas 307

Delft 155, 207

Denbigh 158

Deptford 313–14

Derby, Countess of 329

Derby, Earl of 42, 128

Derbyshire 129, 132

Derrick, Robert 139

Desmond family 9, 12

Desmond, Earl of, Gerald Fitzjames Fitzgerald 169

Dethick, Sir William, Garter King of Arms 138–9

Devereux, Dorothy 351

Devereux, Lettice 164
see also
Essex, Countess of

Devereux, Penelope 230, 347, 362
see also
Rich, Penelope

Devereux, Robert (2nd Earl of Essex) 257, 347
see also
Essex, 2nd Earl of

Devereux, Robert (3
rd
Earl of Essex) 349

Devereux, Walter (1st Earl of Essex) 162, 164, 171, 347
see also
Essex, 1st Earl of

Devon 136, 298

Devonshire, Earl of 129

Dickens, Charles 173

Digges, Thomas 85–6

Ditchley Park 291–2

Dobson, J.F. 84

Doesburg 213

dogs 297

Don Antonio 349

Don Carlos 106

the
Don de
Dieu
21

Don John of Austria 169, 185, 186, 246

Donne, Henry 202

Donne, John 2, 61, 202, 340

Dorset, Marquesses of 128

Doughty, John 182

Doughty, Thomas 175, 177, 181

Douglas, Lady Margaret 57
see also
Lennox, Countess of

Dover, Mayor of 204

Dowdall, George 8

Dowland, John 2, 167

Dowton, Thomas 269

Drake, Edmund 173

Drake, Francis 15, 19, 23, 24, 142, 159, 209–11, 228, 294, 298, 349

the Armada 248–55
circumnavigation 173–84, 219, 292–3, 338
and Ireland 170
and the Queen 35, 182–3

Drake’s Dial 180

drama 87

Drayton Beauchamp 284

dress 35, 137

of the clergy 67–8, 74

drink 159

Dry Drayton 198

Dublin 114

Dublin, Archbishop of 7

Dudley, Ambrose 46–7

Dudley, Amy 49–50

Dudley, Guildford 46–7

Dudley, Henry 46–7

Dudley, Jane 48

Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland 4, 37, 46, 88, 119

Dudley, Mary
see
Sidney, Mary

Dudley, Robert 29, 42–3, 46–51, 55, 56–7, 88, 89, 97, 98, 256, 356 see also Leicester, Earl of

Dudley, Sir Robert (b.1574) 162

Duffy, Eamon 73

Dulwich 263

Duncan-Jones, Katherine 211

Dundalk 344

Durham 99, 100, 132

Durham, Bishops of 71, 92, 132, 226

Durham House 226

Durrest Fair 262

Dutch Anabaptists 193–4

East India Company 180, 218, 339

Edinburgh 234

Eddystone Rock 252

education 1, 9, 37, 75–82

of girls 122

Edward VI 26, 30, 36, 43, 48, 64, 76, 305

Egerton, Sir Thomas 42

the
Elizabeth
176, 178, 179

Elizabeth I

addressing the army 257–8
appearance 27
birth 25–6

cult of virginity 303

death 347, 364–5, 373

funeral 196, 373
illegitimacy 26
illnesses 46, 51
intelligence and education 27, 28, 48, 80
and marriage 28, 40–1, 45–6, 48, 50–1, 96, 107–9, 112, 121, 144, 183, 186–9, 265

Elizabethan Settlement 65, 72, 74, 94, 113, 127, 144, 193, 198, 203

Eltham 163, 313

Ely, Bishops of 71, 164

Elyot, Thomas 123

embroideries 130–1, 134

English language 81–2, 368

Enniskillen 343

Enríquez, Martin 23, 173

espousals 124

Esquival, Ensign 248

Essex, Countess of, Lettice Devereux 164, 187, 209, 212, 347, 348, 350, 362

Essex, 1st Earl of, Walter Devereux 162, 164, 170–2, 175, 314, 342, 348, 349

Essex, 2nd Earl of, Robert Devereux 230, 293, 294, 299, 328, 330, 344, 347, 348, 350–4, 356–62

Essex 135, 136, 297

Essex Rebellion 357–60

Eton 80

Eure, Lord 352

Exeter 284

The Faerie Queene
1, 2, 30, 34, 78, 148, 150–2, 322–3, 328–9, 353

fairy queen 166–7

Farnese, Alexander 209

Farnworth 94

Faust, Dr Georg 87

Felton, John 106–7

Fenton, Sir Geoffrey 259–60

Fenton, Viscount 129, 159

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe 245

Ficino, Marsilius 323

Field, John 144

Field, Nathan 268

Field of the Cloth of Gold 45

fines 195, 196, 203

Fineux, Thomas 272

Finisterre 248

Finsbury 297

fire-ships 250, 254

Fisher, John 252

Fitzgibbon, Maurice 169

Fitzjames Fitzgerald, Gerald 169

Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, James 98, 169

Fitzwilliam, William 300–1, 342, 343

Fleet Street 30

Fleetwood, William 262

Fleming, Abraham 144

Fleming, Lord 97

Fleming, Thomas 249

Fletcher, Rev. Francis 177, 181

Fletcher, Giles 239

Fletcher, Dr Richard, Dean of Peterborough 239–40

Flushing 109, 154, 209, 211, 315–16

food 69, 159–60

prices 262, 296, 359

Forman, Simon 308, 309

Forster, Anthony 49

Fortune Theatre 268, 318

Forty English Martyrs 201

Fotheringay Castle 233, 234, 237, 238

Foxe, John 111, 141–2, 144, 194, 221

France 18, 24, 25, 28, 36, 40, 71, 95, 98, 107–8, 109, 110, 116, 208, 262

Fraser, Lady Antonia 132

Frizier, Ingram 313–15

Frobisher, Humphrey 249

Frobisher, Sir Martin 159, 224, 249, 252, 253, 333

Froude, James Anthony 1, 3, 140, 170, 239, 242, 244, 251, 258, 332

Fuller, Thomas 225

Furnese, Alexander, Duke of Parma 185

Gaelic culture in Ireland 8–9, 11

Galicia 248

Gardner, Helen 62

Gargrave, Sir Thomas 112–13

Garter King of Arms 29

Garvey, William 15

Gascoigne, George 153–7, 160–2, 165, 186

Gascoigne, John 154

Gaunt, John of 122

Gawdy (judge) 235

geographers 221, 227, 337

geometry 317–18

Gérard, Balthasar 207

Gerard, John 118

Germany 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 83, 139, 185, 266

Ghiraldi, Luigi Lilio 220

Ghislieri, Michele
see
Pius V

Giambelli, Federigo 250, 254

Gibbons, Orlando 196

Gibson, Thomas 199

Gilbert, Adrian 219

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey 109, 154, 219, 225, 226

Gillingham 173

Girouard, Mark 133–4

the Globe Theatre 268, 317–18, 358, 369

Goethe 83

gold 174–5, 334–5, 336

the
Golden Hind
(Drake) 176, 178–83

the
Golden Hind
(Fleming) 249

Golding, Arthur 116

Goldingham, Harry 161

Goodman, Bishop 345

Goodman, Christopher 200

Goodman, G. 25

Gorges, Sir Thomas 231, 232

Gorhambury 117

Govian 239

Grafton 157

Grafton, Richard 32

grain prices 298

grammar schools 1, 10, 76, 292, 336
see also
education

Grantham 76

Gravelines 213, 254, 258

Gray’s Inn 45, 153, 297

Great North Road 93

Greene, Robert 270, 271, 274, 277

Greenham, Richard 198

Gregorian calendar 221

Gregory XIII, Pope 112, 186, 220

Grenville, Sir Richard 177, 228, 249, 331–2

Greville, Sir Fulke 359

Grey, Lady Catherine (Seymour) 52–6, 95

Grey, Lady Jane 43, 52, 77, 119

Grey, Reginald 154

Grey de Wilton, Lord 216, 360

Grindal, Edmund 77, 198

Grindal, William 48, 80, 141

Grosart, Rev. A.B. 79

Gruithuissens, Mademoiselle 213

Guiana 293, 331, 333–4, 366

Gunpowder Plot 129, 325, 359

Haarlem 155, 185

Habergham family 76

Habsburgs 40, 185, 187, 244

Hacket, William 286

Hakewill, William 148

Hakluyt, Richard 1, 18, 20, 221–4, 226–7, 228, 284, 336–9

Halifax 261

Hamlet
366–72

Hamlett, Katherine 275, 371

Hampshire 199

Hampshire, Lord Lieutenant of 361

Hampton Court 306

Hardwick Hall 132–4

Hardwick, Elizabeth (Bess) 127–34

see also
St Loe, Elizabeth

Hardwick, James 432

Harefield 329

Harington, Sir John 2, 184, 327, 362

Harlestone, Margaret 69

Harlington 196

Harrington, Sir Henry 12, 202

Harrington, William 61

Harriot, Thomas 226, 227, 228, 325, 336

Harrison, John 180

Harrison, William 143

Harrogate 158

Hart, John 138

Hart, Mary 138–9

harvests 295, 298

Harvey, Gabriel 149, 216, 282, 312

Haselbury 135

Hatfield House, Hertfordshire 26, 27, 28

Hathaway, Anne 125

Hatton, Sir Christopher 42, 163, 175, 176, 236, 243, 300, 348

Haverfordwest 300

Havering 256

Hawkins, Sir John 3, 15–24, 98, 173, 175, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254, 294

Hawkins, Richard 249

Hawkins, William 15, 19, 159, 174

Hawkins, William (son of the above) 19

Haydock family 76

Haywood, Dr John 357

Hazlitt, W. 271

Heath, Nicholas, Archbishop of York 33, 65

Hengrave Hall 135

Henriksson, Helena 232

Henry, Prince of Wales 331

Henry III of France 187

Henry IV of France 350
see also
Navarre, Prince Henri

Henry IV
145–7

Henry V
30, 269

Henry VI
277–8

Henry VII 27, 44, 125, 222

Henry VIII
75

Henry VIII 9, 45, 89, 305, 311

Church of England, 63, 75, 142, 199, 292
dissolution of the monasteries 45, 292
and Ireland 7, 8,
issue 20, 25–7, 291, 299
will 25, 95

Henry the Navigator 17

Henslowe, Philip 268, 269, 270, 318

heralds 137–9

Herbert, George 45

Herbert, Henry 52

Herefordshire 313

hermetics 319–25

Herries, Lord 97

Hertford, Earl of 52–6

Hertfordshire 117

Hext, Edward 295

Heywood, John 202

Heywood, Thomas 202

Higham Ferrers 163

Highgate 78

Hilles, Richard 77

Hilliard, Nicholas 35

The History of the World
325, 326

Hodgkins, Bishop 66

Hofman, François 116

Holdenby 164

Holenlohe, Count 212

Holinshed, Raphael 142, 148

Holland 206, 212, 343

Holmes, George 70

Holyrood 234

Home (park) 163

homes, great houses 133–4

homosexuality 309

The Honest Whore
307

Hooker, Richard 223, 283–7, 292

Hoover, John 143

Horham Hall 135

Horse Guards Parade 293

Howard, Admiral Charles, Earl of Nottingham 249–54, 300, 364

Howard, Lord Henry 352

Howard, Philip 204

Howard, Sir Thomas 98–9, 331, 359

Howard of Effingham, William Howard 15, 42, 162

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