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9
Hunt, p. 79.

10
Spenser,
The Faerie Queene
, I.xii.8.

11
Hunt, p. 162.

12
Starkey, p. 274.

13
Spenser,
Mutabilitie
, Canto VII, 37.

14
Yates (1975/1985).

15
Arnold, p. 107.

16
Sidney (1912–26), p. 283.

4 Men in Power

1
Ridley, p. 115.

2
Dawson, ‘John Knox’,
ODNB
, 32, p. 17.

3
Ridley, p. 188.

4
Knox p. 66.

5
Ibid., p. 45.

6
For an exploration of these themes, see Jansen.

7
Lewis, p. 200.

8
Knox, p. 71.

9
Williams, pp. 1–4.

10
Rowse (1950), p. 331.

11
See Kinney, p. 86.

12
Ibid., p. 2.

13
Creighton, p. 45.

14
CSP Spanish, VI, p.18.

15
Loades, p. 51.

16
The title of Derek Wilson’s excellent study of the Dudleys (2005). See also his
Sweet Robin
.

17
Wilson (2005), p. 257, and Wilson (1981), p. 81.

18
CST Dom. Addenda, XXVI.9.

19
Q. Jenkins 49,
De la Forêt, Dépêches
, quoted by Van Rauner,
Elizabeth and Mary Stuart
.

20
Wilson (1981), p. 18.

21
Ibid., p. 47.

22
CSP Venetian, VII, p. 81.

23
CSP Spanish, p. 57.

24
The point is emphasised in Aird,
English Historical Review
.

25
Sidney (1905), pp. 8–9
passim
.

26
Wilson (1981), p. 118.

27
CSP Spanish, I, p. 175.

28
Ibid., p. 177.

29
Ibid., p. 262.

30
Ibid., p. 176.

31
BL Harley MS 6286, ff. 37–39.

32
CSP Spanish, I, p. 213.

33
Violet Alice Wilson, p. 78.

34
Read, (1925) p. 212.

35
Ibid., p. 215.

36
A.F. Pollard, ‘Sir Edward Seymour’,
DNB
, XVII, 1249.

37
BL Harleian MS 6286, f. 22.

38
Borman, p. 247.

39
The National Archives, State Papers, 12/159, f. 38v.

40
Wilson (1981), p. 139.

41
Shakespeare,
Macbeth
, I. iii. 69.

42
Bate and Rasmussen, p. 1862.

43
Wilson (1981), p. 146.

5 Which Church?

1
Donne, Poem p. 15; Gardner’s gloss, p. 127.

2
Black, p. 8.

3
CSP Venetian, VII, p. 94.

4
Ibid., p. 57.

5
Perry, pp. 52 and 68.

6
Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society
, Vol. I (1840–6), p. 23.

7
An excellent account of the whole ceremony and its significance is written by a former librarian of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, Beatrice M. Hamilton Thompson,
The Consecration of Archbishop Parker
, with a foreword by no less a scholar than B.J. Kidd, Warden of Keble College.

8
Creighton, p. 70.

9
Ibid., p. 70.

10
Carleton, p. 186.

11
Haugaard, p. 246.

12
Williams, p. 455.

13
Ibid., p. 460.

14
Edith Weir Perry, p. 235.

15
Ibid., p. 254.

16
Ibid., p. 29.

17
Ibid., p. 151.

18
Ibid., p. 33.

19
Ibid., p. 140.

20
Ibid., p. 87.

21
Ibid., p. 89.

22
Duffy, p. 569.

23
Cosin, ‘Notes and Collections on the Book of Common Prayer’,
Works
, VI, pp. 1145ff.

24
Vernon Johnson, p. 7.

25
Ibid. p. 10.

26
Creighton, p. 68.

27
Patrick Collinson in Tyacke, p. 172.

28
Manning, p. 76.

29
Ibid., p. 46.

30
Duffy, p. 593.

31
Manning, p. 32.

32
Creighton, p. 117.

6 The New Learning

1
Barker, ‘Richard Mulcaster’,
ODNB,
39, p. 697.

2
Shakespeare,
Henry VIII
, I. ii. 171–5.

3
Alford, p. 10.

4
Brodie, p. 47.

5
J.F. Nicholls,
The Free Grammar School of Bristol,
St Peter Port, Toucan Press, 1984, p. 2.

6
Bennett, p. 16.

7
And Marian Oxford provided the backbone of Catholic missionary resistance to the Elizabethan Church and state. ‘Throughout the 1560s and 1570s a steady stream of Oxford men left for the seminaries of Louvain, Douai and Rheims.’ Loach, p. 381.

8
Articles of Visitation
, quoted Stowe, pp. 147–8.

9
Milton, ‘A Book Was Writ of Late Called
Tetrachordon
.’

10
Draper, p.13.

11
Ibid., p. 33.

12
Shakespeare,
As You Like It
, II. vii. 149.

13
Hinde, p. 17.

14
Brown, p.19.

15
Draper, p. 32.

16
Brown, p. 25.

17
Mulcaster’s Elementarie, edited with introduction by E.T Campagnac, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925.

18
Jones p. 172.

19
Introduction to Roger Ascham,
The Schoolmaster,
London, Cassell & Company, 1909.

20
Starkey p. 80.

21
Ibid., p. 81.

22
Dobson, I. 39.

23
Strang, p. 110.

24
Greenough and Kittredge, p. 106. Strang, 129, to whom I am indebted for the examples of loan words,
passim
.

7 A Library at Mortlake

1
Kesten, p. 299.

2
Ibid., p. 310.

3
Ibid., p. 10.

4
British Library Catalogue. But Kesten ignored, also, the work of Thomas Digges, whose
A Perfect Description of the Caelestiall Orbes
(1576) contains substantial portions of Copernicus’s Book I in translation.

5
Woolley, p. 155.

6
Johnson and Larkey, p. 115.

7
See E.M. Butler (1948), pp. 121–3.

8
The Works of Christopher Marlowe
, ed. C.F. Tucker Brooke, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1910, p. 142.

9
Aubrey p. xxxviii.

10
Ibid., p. 89.

11
Woolley, p. 14.

12
Aubrey, p. 89.

13
Woolley, p. 63.

14
Sherman, p. 8.

15
L. & P. Henry VIII. ix.350 quoted Jennifer Loach, ‘Reformation Controversies’, in
The History of the University of Oxford, Vol. III: The Collegiate University
, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1986 p. 365.

16
Woolley, p. 308.

17
M.R. James.

18
Yates (1969), p. 12.

19
Sherman, p. 29.

20
Shakespeare,
The Tempest
, I.ii.110.

21
An influential short book with this title, by E.M.W. Tillyard, was published in 1943.

8 The Northern Rebellion

1
PRO SP/12/20/5 and PRO SP/12/20/25, quoted David Marcombe, ‘A Rude and Heady People. The local community and the Rebellion of the Northern Earls’ in David Marcombe (ed.):
The Last Principality: Politics, Religion and Society in The Bishopric of Durham 1494–1660
, Nottingham, Nottingham University Press, 1987.

2
Church Comm. Durham MS, Survey of the Bishopric 1588, quoted Mervyn James, p. 30.

3
Fletcher, p. 45.

4
Palliser, p. 263.

5
Kesselring, p. 2.

6
Palliser, p. 270.

7
Haigh (1975), pp. 333–4.

8
Ibid., p. 217.

9
Ibid., p. 219.

10
Neale (1934), p. 141.

11
Ibid., p. 159.

12
Jenkins (1958), p. 134.

13
Neale (1934), p. 185.

14
Kesselring, p. 21.

15
D. Carcombe, ‘A Rude and Healthy People’, in Marcombe, p. 195.

16
Mervyn James, p. 51 and
passim
.

17
Anthony Fletcher and Diarmaid Mac Culloch,
Tudor Rebellions
, Revised 5th Edition, Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2008, p. 106.

18
Kesselring, p. 143.

19
Penry Williams, p. 262.

20
Fletcher, p. 114.

21
Penry Williams, p. 265.

22
Quoted Creighton, p. 122.

9 St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

1
Ranke, p. 220.

2
Freiherr von Pastor, XVIII, p. 36.

3
Derek Wilson (1997), p. 75.

4
Read (1925), I, p. 110.

5
Derek Wilson,
Sir Francis Walsingham,
London, Constable, 2007, p. 79.

6
Hutchinson, p. 51.

7
See, for instance, ‘
Détails de l’horrible massacre des Protestants arrivé a Montauban; ou la Nouvelle Saint-Barthélemy
’, Chez Garnéry Libraire, Paris, 1790.

8
Sidney (1985), p. 225.

9
Hutchinson, p. 50.

10
Duncan-Jones (1991), p. 60.

11
Derek Wilson (2007), p. 81.

12
Quoted, 2007 p. 80.

13
Hutchinson, p. 51.

14
Derek Wilson, (2007) p. 83.

15
Quoted ibid., p. 83.

16
Read (1925) I, p. 239.

17
Lionel Henry Cust, ‘Sir Thomas Gargrave’,
DNB,
vii, p. 875.

18
CSP (Domestic) 1566–1579, p. 425.

19
Neale (1934), p. 225.

20
Ibid., p.226.

21
CSP (Domestic) 1566–1579, p. 439.

22
Simon Adams, ‘Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester,
ODNB
, 5, p. 101.

23
The phrase is from Yates’ (1985), p. 101.

24
Duncan-Jones, (1991), p. 36.

25
Michael Graves, ‘Edmund Campion’, O
DNB
, III, p. 851.

26
Translated by Richard Simpson, Campion’s biographer, and quoted Duncan-Jones (1991), p. 126.

27
Ackroyd, p. 704.

28
Loades, p. 124.

29
Quoted Loades, p. 144.

30
David Loades,
The Cecils
, p. 123.

31
Loades, p. 145.

32
Alan Clark,
The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922–1997,
London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998, p. 312.

33
Alford (2008), p. 146.

34
Ibid., p. 207.

35
Aubrey, p. 305.

36
Alford (2008), p. 240.

10 Elizabethan Women

1
Shakespeare,
Richard
II.i.50.

2
See Carroll Camden, p. 58.

3
Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet
, I.iii.14.

4
Camden, p. 93.

5
See Laslett, p. 90.

6
Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night
, IV.iii.22–8.

7
Anne Laurence, in Tittler p. 385.

8
Campion, p. 25.

9
Ibid., pp. 21–2.

10
Camden, p. 105.

11
Jonson,
Epicoene
, IV.ii.60–5.

12
Quoted William Camden, p. 112.

13
Baker, p. 21.

14
Carroll Camden, p. 99.

15
Ibid., p. 100.

16
Lovell, p. 28.

17
Ibid., p. 9.

18
Ibid., p. 147.

19
Ibid., p. 205.

20
Ibid., p. 207.

21
Ibid., p. 209.

22
Fraser, p. 489.

23
Zulueta, p. 5.

24
Lovell, p. 217.

25
Ibid., p. 315.

26
Rowse (1950), p. 160.

27
Girouard (1989), p. 16.

28
Ibid., p. 15. There is no absolute proof that Smythson provided designs for Hardwick.

29
Ibid., p. 18.

30
Ibid., p. 36.

31
See Levey, p. 17.

32
Girouard (1966), p. 59.

33
Cheetham and Piper, p. 185.

34
Stone, p. 31.

35
Richard Mulcaster,
Positions
(1581), p. 198, quoted ibid., p. 50.

36
Ibid., p. 49.

37
Allen D. Boyer, ‘Sir Edward Coke’,
ODNB
, 12, pp. 451–3.

38
Rowse (1950), p. 230.

39
Ibid., p. 242.

40
Stone, p. 38.

41
Cliffe, p. 63.

42
Ibid., p. 28.

43
Ibid., pp. 28–9.

44
Anthony Wagner (1967), p. 206.

45
Stone, p. 578.

46
Ibid., p. 578.

47
BL Lansdowne MS 18, f.5, quoted Anthony Wagner (1967), p. 202.

48
Anthony Wagner (1967), p. 200.

11 Histories

1
See Duncan-Jones ‘Afterword: Stow’s Remains’ in (ed.) Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie,
John Stow (1525–1605) and the Making of the English Past
, London, British Library, 2004, p. 157.

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