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2
Lewis, p. 299.

3
Daniel Woolf, ‘Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain’, in Tittler and Jones, p. 415.

4
Lewis, p. 300.

5
See Knapp, p. 155.

6
Lewis, p. 302.

7
Patterson, p. viii.

8
Ibid., p. 151.

9
E.g. Tillyard (1944).

10
Holinshed
Chronicles
, 4.405–6, quoted Patterson, p. 129.

11
Patterson, p. 133.

12
Bale, pp. 56–7.

13
McKisack, p. 18.

14
Aston, p. 58.

15
Quoted Patterson, p. 137.

16
David Scott Kastan,
King Henry IV Part I
, London, the Arden Shakespeare, 2002, p. 76.

17
Spenser,
A View of the Present State of Ireland
, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1970, pp. 84–5.

18
McCabe, p. 146.

19
Doyle, ‘William Hakewill’,
ODNB
, 24, p. 495.

20
Duncan-Jones and Van Dorstern, p. 84.

21
Ibid., p. 92.

22
Ibid., p. 106.

23
Spenser,
The Faerie Queene
, VI.xii.1.

24
Ibid., III. i.13.

25
Ibid., III. iii.49.

12 Kenilworth

1
Machyn, p. 293.

2
Biographical details from the introduction to Gascoigne, pp. xii–xliii.

3
Gascoigne, p. 40.

4
Austen, pp. 105–15.

5
Read (1960), pp. 122 and 429.

6
Simon Adams, ‘Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester’,
ODNB
, 5, p. 101.

7
Sass, p.119.

8
Jenkins (1961), p. 238.

9
Kuin, p. 56.

10
Sass, p. 45.

11
Ibid., p. 51.

12
Ibid., p. 53.

13
Duncan-Jones (2001), p. 9.

14
Gascoigne, p. 116.

15
Dunlop, p. 147.

16
Gascoigne, p. 128.

17
Jenkins (1961), p. 40; Kuin, p. 57.

18
Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, II.i. 150–6 and 157–164.

19
See the following chapter.

20
Quoted Simon Adams, ‘Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester’
ODNB
, 5, p. 102.

21
Attributed to Matthew Arnold by
The Times Book of Quotations
, p. 40. I had always thought it was said by Disraeli.

22
MacCaffery, ‘Sir Christopher Hatton,’
ODNB
, 25, p. 818.

23
Ibid., p. 820.

24
See
chapter 3
.

25
Nichols, p. 562.

26
Yates (1975/1985), pp. 97–8.

27
A Proper New Ballad, initiated The Fairies Farewell, or God-a-Mercy will
, H.T.C. Grierson and G. Bullough,
The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse
, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1934, p. 206.

28
Yates (1975/1985), p. 113.

29
Ibid., p. 115.

30
Ibid., p. 117.

13 Ireland

1
G.A. Hayes McCoy, ‘Tudor Conquest and Counter-Reformation’, in Moody, Martin and Byrne (eds), vol. III, p. 105.

2
Rowse (1955), p. 127.

3
Wallace T. MacCaffery, ‘Sir Henry Sidney,
ODNB
, 50, p. 549.

4
Ibid., p. 549.

5
Thomson, p. 96.

6
Canny (1976), p. 67.

7
Ibid., p. 83.

8
Williams, p. 293.

9
Ibid., p. 292.

10
Osborn, p. 439.

11
Sidney (1985), p. 178.

12
Osborn, p. 442.

14 Sir Francis Drake’s Circumnavigation

1
Williamson (1951), p. 29.

2
Coote, p. 59.

3
Ibid., p. 76.

4
Quoted from BL Cotton MS, Otho E.viii, in Coote, p. 89.

5
Williamson (1951), p. 64.

6
Ibid., p. 65.

7
From Ringrose,
History of the Buccaneers
, quoted Laughton, Sir ‘Francis Drake’,
DNB
, V, p. 1336.

8
Coote, p. 172.

9
Ibid., p. 175.

10
Williamson, (1938) p. 194.

11
Quoted Coote, p. 179.

12
Ibid., p. 188.

13
Henry Raup Wagner, pp. 204–5; Gibbs, pp. 117–18.

14
Yates (1975/1985), p. 55.

15 A Frog He Would A-wooing Go

1
John Lothrop Motley,
The Rise of the Dutch Republic
(Everyman), London, 3 Vols, 1966, vol 1, p. 217.

2
Worden, p. 79.

3
Quoted ibid., p. 73.

4
CSP Foreign, xiii, p. 487.

5
Jenkins (1958), p. 219.

6
Somerset, p. 312.

7
Ibid., p. 311.

8
Jenkins (1958), p. 223.

9
Duncan-Jones and Van Dorsten, Philip Sidney,
Miscellaneous Prose
, p. 48.

10
Black, p. 350.

11
CSP Spanish, III, p. 266.

16 Religious Dissent

1
Smithson, pp. 200–1.

2
Quoted ibid., p. 202.

3
Nichols, I, p. 438.

4
Fellowes, p. 39.

5
Monson, ‘William Byrd’,
ODNB
, 9, 327.

6
Haugaard, p. 317.

7
Francis Mills to Walsingham, 23 July 1586, in Froude (1881), XII, p. 110.

8
Parmiter, p. 23.

9
Ibid., p. 32.

10
Patrick Collinson, ‘The Church and the New Religion’, in Haigh (1984) p. 127.

11
Quoted Haigh, ‘Church Catholics and People’, in
The Reign of Elizabeth I
, p. 205.

12
Haugaard, p. 311.

13
Ibid., p. 319.

14
Waugh, p. 55.

15
Mush, p. 398.

16
Ibid., p. 432.

17
Walker, ‘Margaret Clitherow’,
ODNB,
12, p. 159.

18
Ibid.

19
John Donne, ‘Pseudo Martyr’, quoted Bald, p. 23.

20
Fellowes, p. 39.

21
Haugaard, p. 327.

22
Elzinga, ‘Philip Arundel’,
ODNB
, 28, p, 408.

23
By Katherine Duncan-Jones: ‘Sir Philip Sidney’s Debt to Edmund Campion’, in McCoog (ed.), p. 116.

24
Shakespeare, Sonnet 124.

17 Sir Philip Sidney

1
Wedgwood, p. 250.

2
Rowse (1955), p. 375.

3
Froude (1881), XI, p. 12.

4
Ibid., p. 13.

5
Ibid., p. 25.

6
Ibid., p. 35.

7
Philip Sidney,
Arcadia
, II (Baker 158–9) London, Routledge, 1907.

8
CSP Foreign 1585–6, pp. 23–4, quoted Duncan-Jones (1991), p. 274.

9
Ibid., p. 334.

10
Israel, p. 229.

11
Ibid., p. 230.

12
Froude (1881), XI, p. 58.

13
Woudhuysen, ‘Philip Sidney’,
ODNB
, 50, p. 564.

14
Duncan-Jones (1991), p. 295.

15
Quoted ibid., p. 295.

16
Philip Sidney,
Arcadia
, III.12 (ed. Maurice Evans, London, Penguin, 1977, p. 504).

17
III.2. (p. 441).

18
III.8 (p. 473).

19
II.15 (p. 116).

20
Woudhuysen, ‘Philip Sidney’,
ODNB
, 50, p. 565.

21
Nashe, Vol II, p. 253.

22
Buxton (1964), p. 140.

23
Judson, p. 200.

24
C.H. Herford and others,
Ben Jonson
(1925–52) in Plays, I, p. 137.

18 Hakluyt and Empire

1
Shakespeare,
Othello,
I.iii. 147–58.

2
Encyclopoedia Britannica
, 11th edition, ‘Calendar’.

3
Marlowe,
Tamburlaine,
V.iii.124–5.

4
Lynam p. 13.

5
Hakluyt (1903–5) p.17.

6
Mancall, p. 25, for the date, but he doesn’t make the connection. Woudhuysen, ‘Sir Philip Sidney’,
ODNB
, 50, p. 557, tells us that Sidney’s three earliest surviving letters, written between 12 March 1569 and 26 February 1570, were all written from Oxford.

7
See Buxton (1964), p. 42.

8
Hakluyt (1935), II, pp. 396–7.

9
CSP Foreign, 29 December 1558, p. 68.

10
Sidney Lee, ‘Walter Raleigh’,
DNB
, XVI, p. 631.

11
Milton p. 204.

12
Rowse (1959), pp. 50–1.

19 The Scottish Queen

1
Froude (1881), XII, p. 488.

2
Fraser, p. 582.

3
Harrington, ‘Helena, Lady Gorges’,
ODNB
, 22, p. 994.

4
Fraser, p. 586.

5
Quoted in Froude (1881), xii, p. 164.

6
Quoted ibid., p. 243.

7
Ibid., p. 168.

8
Ibid., p. 195.

9
Ibid., p. 183.

10
Ibid., p. 107.

11
Neale (1953), p. 105.

12
Ibid., p. 107.

13
Froude (1881), XII, p. 251.

14
Ibid.

15
Fraser, pp. 651–2.

16
Froude (1881), xii, p. 259.

20 The Armada

1
Fernández-Armesto, p. 12.

2
Exhibit 4.16.

3
Quoted Fernández-Armesto, p. 101.

4
Ibid., p. 56.

5
Mattingley, p. 242.

6
Ibid., p. 242.

7
Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘The Armada’ who based his poem on Froude, VIII, p. 72.

8
Basil Morgan,
ODNB
, 25, p. 923.

9
Ibid.

10
Rodger, p. 270.

11
Mattingley, p. 304.

12
Maria Perry, p. 282.

13
Ibid., p. 211.

14
Froude (1895).

15
David A. Thomas, pp. 209ff.

16
Froude (1881), XII, p. 449.

17
CSP Ireland, 1588–92, p. 98.

21 London and Theatre

1
P. Arrowsmith,
The Population of Manchester from
AD
79 to 1801
, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1987, p. 100.

2
Rowse (1950), p. 187.

3
P.M. Tillott,
A History of the County of York: The City of York
, London, Institute of Historical Research, Oxford University Press, 1961.

4
Inwood, p. 158.

5
Ibid., p. 160.

6
Quoted by Inwood, and annoyingly unnamed.

7
Ackroyd, p. 608.

8
Francine, Gottlieb,
Plague and Poverty in Elizabethan England,
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972.

9
I am grateful to Katherine Duncan-Jones for these insights.

10
Gair, p. 3.

11
Gibson, p. 27.

12
Ibid., p. 56.

13
Charles Nicholl. ‘Christopher Marlowe’,
ODNB.

14
Lewis p. 401.

15
G.K. Hunter,
English Drama, 1586–1642
, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 10.

16
Ibid., p. 16.

17
Nicholl
ODNB
, quoting Hazlitt,
Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
.

18
ODNB
– Bodley, Harley MS 6848, fol. 185.

19
In the opinion, for example, of Charles Nicholl,
ODNB,
see p. 177.

20
Boas, p. 208.

21
Andrew S. Cairncross, preface to Thomas Kyd,
The Spanish Tragedy
, London, Edward Arnold, 1967, p. xii.

22
Duncan-Jones (2001), p. 23.

23
Shakespeare,
2
Henry VI
, IV. vii. 92.

24
Ibid., IV. viii. 20.

22 Marprelate and Hooker

1
Green, p. 27.

2
Pierce, p. 64.

3
Ibid., p. 72.

4
Ibid. p. 238.

5
Carlson,
passim
.

6
Ibid., p. 115.

7
Jesse M. Lunder, ‘Martin Marprelate’, in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
, 3, p. 409.

8
Carlson, p. 114.

9
Hooker, I, p. 32.

10
Lewis, pp. 461 and 453.

11
Sir Sidney Lee, ‘Richard Hooker’,
DNB
, IX, p. 1184.

12
Izaak Walton,
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton
,
Mr Richard Hooker and Mr George Herbert
, London, Menston Scolar Press, 1969, p. 112.

13
Hooker, I p. 77.

14
Hooker, ii, p. 320.

15
Ibid., p. 323.

16
Tillyard, p. 115.

17
Walton, p. 76.

23 A Hive for Bees

1
Aubrey p. 189.

2
Fernie, ‘Sir Henry Lee’,
ODNB
, 33, p. 73.

3
Ibid., p. 72, for the riderless horse. Yeats’s poem ‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’.

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