An Accidental Tragedy (74 page)

Tadcaster
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tails, Englishmen have
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Talbot, Elizabeth
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Talbot, Lord
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Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of

Tamworth, John
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Tantallon Castle
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tapestries
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taxation
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Taylor, William
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Terregles
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Thornton, James
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Throckmorton, Francis
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Throndsen, Anna
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Tichborne, Chidiock
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Tixall
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Tongland
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Topcliffe, Richard
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Touraine, MQS contemplates life as Duchess of
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Traquair House
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Treaty of Accommodation
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Treaty of Berwick
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Treaty of Blois
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Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis
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Treaty of Edinburgh
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Treaty of Fontainebleau
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Treaty of Greenwich
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Treaty of Upsettlington
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Trivulzio, Cardinal
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Troule in Madame
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tuberculosis
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Tullibardine, Laird of
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Tutbury Castle
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Union of the Crowns
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universities
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Urfé, Claude d’
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Valois, Elisabeth de
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Vassy
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Vendôme, Marie de
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Vertue, Robert
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Vesalius, André
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Victoria, Queen
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Waad, William
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Walsingham, Francis
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watches
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Watson, Robert
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weaponry
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Wedderburn, Robert
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wells and springs
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Westminster Abbey
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Westminster commission on MQS’s guilt
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Westmoreland, Earl of
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wet nursing
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Wharton, William
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White, Allan
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White, Nicholas
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Whittinghame Castle
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widows’ role in society
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William of Orange
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Wilson, Patrick
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Wingfield Manor
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Wingfield, Robert
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Winzet, Ninian
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Wise, Robert
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women, denied public office
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Wood, John
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Workington
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Wormald, Jenny
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Wycliffe, John
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Endnotes

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A boll equalled 6 English bushels, or 24 pecks, or 48 gallons.

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This was not repealed until 1906.

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A Scots ell was 37.2 inches.

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A cynical corruption of the French ‘gêner’, meaning ‘to cause distress’.

Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland, wife of James V and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was, in truth, always French at heart. When widowed, for the second time, at 27, she lived on for 18 more years to rule Scotland with moderation and wisdom.
Portrait of Mary of Guise
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1515-1560,
Queen of James V attributed to Corneille de Lyon
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National Galleries of Scotland

James V, King of Scotland and father to Mary, Queen of Scots. He died of, among other things, a broken heart, aged 30 without ever seeing his daughter.
Portrait of James V,
1512–1542, father of Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist
©
National Galleries of Scotland

Linlithgow Palace. Mary was probably born in the right-hand tower on the second floor. The palace was always a favourite of hers.

Stirling Castle. Mary spent the first six years of her life inside these carefully guarded walls as the centre of a Renaissance court while politics determined her future.

Mary, Queen of Scots aged nine years and six months. Already she is a bejewelled and tightly corseted French princess. Her Scottish childhood was becoming a distant memory.
Portrait of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1542–87) at the age of nine
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July 1552 (pencil & sanguine on paper)
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Clouet
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(16th century) (studio of)/Musée Condé
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Chantilly France
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Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library

Henri II, King of France and father-in-law to Mary. He was enchanted by his little daughter-in-law and indulged her as a crowned queen.
Portrait of Henri II (1519–59) (oil on panel) by Primaticcio, Francesco (1504–70) (attr. to)
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Chateau d’Anet
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Eure-et-Loir
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France/The Bridgeman Art Library