The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (67 page)

assassination,
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English mission,
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information about Don John’s invasion plans,
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relationship with Elizabeth,
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relationship with Walsingham,
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revolt,
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Sea Beggars,
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Williams, Walter,
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Wilson, Thomas,
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Windebank, Sir Thomas,
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Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal,
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Woodville, Elizabeth,
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Worseley, Sir Richard,
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Wray, Sir Christopher,
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Wyatt, Sir Thomas: career,
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execution,
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Venetian support for,
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Wyclif, John,
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Youghal, Co Cork,
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Young, Thomas, Archbishop of York,
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Aldermanbury, City of London. Walsingham’s parents William and Joyce were both buried in the church of St Mary Aldermanbury.

Edward VI in front of Hunsdon in Hertfordshire (c.1546), the royal manor where Walsingham’s step-father Sir John Carey was bailiff.

The south porch of King’s College chapel, Cambridge University (c.1800). Walsingham’s studies at King’s profoundly influenced his future outlook and career.

Portrait traditionally thought to be of Dame Ursula (d.1602), Walsingham’s second wife. Ursula witnessed the St Bartholomew’s massacre alongside her husband.

Provisionally identified as Barn Elms, the house on the Thames where the Walsinghams received the Queen on progress.

Map of sixteenth-century Paris. The Huguenot district of Saint Marceau, where Walsingham lived during his time as ambassador, appears at the top.

Allegory of the Tudor Succession
, attrib. Lucas de Heere, 1572, presented to Walsingham by Queen Elizabeth to mark the signing of the treaty of Blois.

Elizabeth I: Sieve Portrait,
Quentin Metsys the younger, 1583. The globe behind the Queen alludes to England’s aspiring empire at sea.

Relic of the skull of St Cuthbert Mayne, the first priest of the English Catholic mission to be executed for his faith.

Cipher alphabet with which Anthony Babington communicated with the Queen of Scots.