Authors: Susan Ronald
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17
. Parker,
Grand Strategy of Philip II
, 171.
Twenty: Frustrating the Designs of Our Enemies
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. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3:73.
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. Ibid., 76.
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. When Navarre, who had been forced to abjure his Protestant faith, escaped from his captivity in February 1576, he took on the mantle of the leader of the Protestant Huguenot faith and became a practicing Protestant once more.
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. Ibid., 94.
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5
. Neale,
Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments,
2:39. See also D'Ewes,
A Compleat Journal of the Votes, Speeches and Debates, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons throughout the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth, etc.
(London: Jonathen Robinson, 1693), p. 340
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. Ibid., 52â53.
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. Ibid., 50.
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. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
291.
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9
. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3:102.
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10
.
CSP, Foreign,
19:572.
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. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth
, 3:108â9
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12
.
CSP, Foreign
, 20:6.
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13
. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
279.
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14
. Read,
Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth
, 310.
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15
. D. C. Peck, “Government Suppression of Elizabethan Catholic Books: The Case of
Leicester's Commonwealth
,”
Library Quarterly
47, no. 2 (April 1977), online reprint,
www.dpeck.info/write/suppression/html
(accessed January 12, 2012).
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16
. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
279.
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17
. Parker,
Grand Strategy of Philip II,
179â80
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. Ibid., 181.
Twenty-One: The Long-Awaited Execution
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. Fraser,
Mary Queen of Scots,
447â50.
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. Ibid., 450.
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.
ODNB,
“Thomas Morgan.”
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. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3:2.
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. Ibid., p. 9.
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. Fraser,
Mary Queen of Scots,
470.
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. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth
, 3:13.
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8
.
ODNB,
“Anthony Babington.”
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9
. Ibid.
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10
.
CSP, Foreign,
23:39; 19:415, April 17.
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11
. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth
, 3:21â22.
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12
. Fraser,
Mary Queen of Scots,
475.
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13
. Ibid., 476.
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14
. Ibid., 477.
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15
. Ibid., 478.
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. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3:53.
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17
. Ibid., 55.
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18
. Ibid., 56.
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19
. Ibid., 63.
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20
. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
292.
Twenty-Two: God's Obvious Design
   Â
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. Garrett Mattingly,
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
(London: 2006), 17â53.
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2
. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
306.
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3
. Read,
Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth,
3:219.
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4
. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
297.
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. Ibid., 296.
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6
. Ibid., 302.
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7
. Ibid., 303.
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. Mattingly,
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
, 274â75.
Twenty-Three: The Norfolk Landing
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1
.
CW,
326.
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. Neale,
Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments,
2:62, 112, 176.
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. Ibid., 58â72.
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. Hogge,
God's Secret Agents,
114â15.
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. Ibid., 96.
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. Ibid., 118â19.
Twenty-Four: Marprelate, Puritans, Catholics, and Players
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1
. Houliston,
Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England,
47, 56â60.
   Â
2
.
ODNB,
“Robert Southwell,” from
The Poems of Robert Southwell, SJ: A Bibliographical Study,
James H. McDonald, ed., (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), 41.
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3
. V. C. Gildersleeve,
Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975), 55. See also Hazlitt,
English Drama,
34â35.
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4
. E. K. Chambers,
The Elizabethan Stage
, 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), 1:277.
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5
.
CSP, Foreign,
19:415, April 17;
CSP, Foreign,
20:89â90; David Hohnen,
Hamlet's Castle and Shakespeare's Elsinore
(Elsinore, Denmark: Elsinore Castle Publications, 1982), 42.
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6
. David Riggs,
The World of Christopher Marlowe
(London: Faber & Faber, 2004), 334â35.
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7
. Joseph Black, “The Rhetoric of Reaction: The Marprelate Tracts (1588â1589), Anti-Martinism, and the Use of Print in Early Modern England,”
Sixteenth Century Journal
28 (Autumn 1997): 713.
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8
. Ibid., 714.
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9
. Ibid.
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10
. Gildersleeve,
Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama
, 91â92.
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11
. Katherine S. Van Eerde, “Robert Waldegrave: The Printer as Agent and Link between Sixteenth Century England and Scotland,”
Renaissance Quarterly
34, no. 1 (Spring 1981): 47.
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12
. Black, “Rhetoric of Reaction,” 711.
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13
. Chambers,
Elizabethan Stage
, 1: 294.
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14
. Ibid., 293.
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15
. Ibid., 295.
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16
. BL, Harleian MS 7368.
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17
. Gildersleeve,
Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama
, 92â93.
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18
. Salgãdo,
Elizabethan Underworld,
37.
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19
. Ibid, 37â38.
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20
. Houliston,
Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England,
50.
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21
. Ibid., 54.
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22
. Alan Haynes,
Robert Cecil: First Earl of Salisbury
(London: Peter Owen, 1989), 21.
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23
. Riggs,
World of Christopher Marlowe,
308.
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24
. Ibid.
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25
. Ibid., 317.
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26
. Ibid, 322â23, title page.
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27
. Charles Nicholl,
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
(London: Vintage, 2002), 52â53.
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28
. The records remain silent as to
who
posted Marlowe's bail.
Twenty-Five: Elizabeth's Eminence Grise and the Final Battles for England
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. Ronald,
Pirate Queen,
329â31.
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2
. Hogge,
God's Secret Agents,
264â65.
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3
. David Loades,
The Cecils
(London: National Archives, 2007), 202.
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4
. Hogge,
God's Secret Agents,
171.
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5
. Houliston,
Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England,
51.
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6
.
ODNB,
“Robert Southwell.”
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7
. BL, Harleian MS 9889.
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8
. This was not due to cowardice but rather to a realization that if he left court, Cecil's influence would continue to grow, to his detriment.
   Â
9
. Edmund Goldsmid, ed.,
The Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI King of Scotland
(Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1887), 7â8.
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10
. Ibid., 7.
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11
. Hogge,
God's Secret Agents,
292.
Twenty-Six: Epilogue
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.
CSP Domestic,
14/xix, p. 11
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2
. Ibid., 41.
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3
. Ibid., 45.
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4
. The plotters, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Robert Winter, John Wright, Christopher Wright, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Sir Everard Digby, John Grant, and Ambrose Rookwood were all executed. See Alice Hogge's fabulous book about the reasons for the plot,
God's Secret Agents
(London: HarperCollins, 2004) as well as Lady Antonia Fraser's excellent
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002).
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