Authors: A.N. Wilson
‘cult of Elizabeth’ 298
Cumberland 97
Cumberland, Earls of 234, 331, 359
Cumnor Place 49
Curle, Gilbert 239
currency 28
the Curtain 268
Cyfeiliog 158
d’Alençon, François, Duc 108–9, 112, 144, 158, 183, 185, 186
d’Angoulême, Duc 110
d’Anjou, François, Duc 185, 186, 188, 190
d’Anjou, Henri, Duc 108, 110
D’Esneval, French Ambassador 234
d’Orléans, Marie-Louise, Duchesse de Montpensier 39
Dacre, Leonard 101–2
dame schools 122
Dante 84, 368
Danvers, Sir Charles 360
Darlington 95
Darnley, Lord 57–8, 95–6
Daunce, William 70
Davies, John 84
Davies, John (the pirate) 90
Davison, William 186, 237
Dawkins, William 139
de Bazan, Don Alvaro 246
de Beauvais, François, Sieur de Briquemault 111
de Belièvre 236
de Bonilla, Fernandez 23
de Bry, Theodore 214
de Coligny, Admiral Gaspard 109
de Contreras, Moya 23
de Feria, Count, Spanish Ambassador 28, 43, 48, 49, 52
de Figuerosa, Gomez Suarez
see
de Feria, Count
de Freitas, Lançarote 16
de Guise, Ducs 110
de Halut, Rémy 246
de La Force, Seigneur 110
de la Mothe Fénèlon, Bertrand 130
de la Ramée, Pierre 111
de la Warr, Lord 340
de Leiva, Alonso 252, 260
de Maisse, Sieur, André Hurault 344–5
de’ Medici, Catherine 55, 108, 109, 112, 189
de Motteville, Françoise Bertaut 39
de Pisan, Christine 39
de Quadra, Bishop, Spanish Ambassador 50–2
de Simier, Jean 187, 189–90
de Spes, Spanish Ambassador 99
de Urquiza, Juanos 15
de Valdés, Don Pedro 249, 252, 253
de Vere, Edward
see
Oxford, Earl of
de Witt, John 317
death in childbirth 188, 189
DeBry, Theodore 228
Dee, George 24
Dee, Dr John 29, 85–91, 141, 224, 273, 292,
‘British Empire’ 34, 219
and Giordano Bruno 318, 319, 321, 325
Warden Manchester College 94, 261
Defoe, Daniel 297
Dekker, Thomas 307
Delft 155, 207
Denbigh 158
Deptford 313–14
Derby, Countess of 329
Derby, Earl of 42, 128
Derbyshire 129, 132
Derrick, Robert 139
Desmond family 9, 12
Desmond, Earl of, Gerald Fitzjames Fitzgerald 169
Dethick, Sir William, Garter King of Arms 138–9
Devereux, Dorothy 351
Devereux, Lettice 164
see also
Essex, Countess of
Devereux, Penelope 230, 347, 362
see also
Rich, Penelope
Devereux, Robert (2nd Earl of Essex) 257, 347
see also
Essex, 2nd Earl of
Devereux, Robert (3
rd
Earl of Essex) 349
Devereux, Walter (1st Earl of Essex) 162, 164, 171, 347
see also
Essex, 1st Earl of
Devon 136, 298
Devonshire, Earl of 129
Dickens, Charles 173
Digges, Thomas 85–6
Ditchley Park 291–2
Dobson, J.F. 84
Doesburg 213
dogs 297
Don Antonio 349
Don Carlos 106
the
Don de
Dieu
21
Don John of Austria 169, 185, 186, 246
Donne, Henry 202
Donne, John 2, 61, 202, 340
Dorset, Marquesses of 128
Doughty, John 182
Doughty, Thomas 175, 177, 181
Douglas, Lady Margaret 57
see also
Lennox, Countess of
Dover, Mayor of 204
Dowdall, George 8
Dowland, John 2, 167
Dowton, Thomas 269
Drake, Edmund 173
Drake, Francis 15, 19, 23, 24, 142, 159, 209–11, 228, 294, 298, 349
the Armada 248–55
circumnavigation 173–84, 219, 292–3, 338
and Ireland 170
and the Queen 35, 182–3
Drake’s Dial 180
drama 87
Drayton Beauchamp 284
dress 35, 137
of the clergy 67–8, 74
drink 159
Dry Drayton 198
Dublin 114
Dublin, Archbishop of 7
Dudley, Ambrose 46–7
Dudley, Amy 49–50
Dudley, Guildford 46–7
Dudley, Henry 46–7
Dudley, Jane 48
Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland 4, 37, 46, 88, 119
Dudley, Mary
see
Sidney, Mary
Dudley, Robert 29, 42–3, 46–51, 55, 56–7, 88, 89, 97, 98, 256, 356 see also Leicester, Earl of
Dudley, Sir Robert (b.1574) 162
Duffy, Eamon 73
Dulwich 263
Duncan-Jones, Katherine 211
Dundalk 344
Durham 99, 100, 132
Durham, Bishops of 71, 92, 132, 226
Durham House 226
Durrest Fair 262
Dutch Anabaptists 193–4
East India Company 180, 218, 339
Edinburgh 234
Eddystone Rock 252
education 1, 9, 37, 75–82
of girls 122
Edward VI 26, 30, 36, 43, 48, 64, 76, 305
Egerton, Sir Thomas 42
the
Elizabeth
176, 178, 179
Elizabeth I
addressing the army 257–8
appearance 27
birth 25–6
cult of virginity 303
death 347, 364–5, 373
funeral 196, 373
illegitimacy 26
illnesses 46, 51
intelligence and education 27, 28, 48, 80
and marriage 28, 40–1, 45–6, 48, 50–1, 96, 107–9, 112, 121, 144, 183, 186–9, 265
Elizabethan Settlement 65, 72, 74, 94, 113, 127, 144, 193, 198, 203
Eltham 163, 313
Ely, Bishops of 71, 164
Elyot, Thomas 123
embroideries 130–1, 134
English language 81–2, 368
Enniskillen 343
Enríquez, Martin 23, 173
espousals 124
Esquival, Ensign 248
Essex, Countess of, Lettice Devereux 164, 187, 209, 212, 347, 348, 350, 362
Essex, 1st Earl of, Walter Devereux 162, 164, 170–2, 175, 314, 342, 348, 349
Essex, 2nd Earl of, Robert Devereux 230, 293, 294, 299, 328, 330, 344, 347, 348, 350–4, 356–62
Essex 135, 136, 297
Essex Rebellion 357–60
Eton 80
Eure, Lord 352
Exeter 284
The Faerie Queene
1, 2, 30, 34, 78, 148, 150–2, 322–3, 328–9, 353
fairy queen 166–7
Farnese, Alexander 209
Farnworth 94
Faust, Dr Georg 87
Felton, John 106–7
Fenton, Sir Geoffrey 259–60
Fenton, Viscount 129, 159
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe 245
Ficino, Marsilius 323
Field, John 144
Field, Nathan 268
Field of the Cloth of Gold 45
fines 195, 196, 203
Fineux, Thomas 272
Finisterre 248
Finsbury 297
fire-ships 250, 254
Fisher, John 252
Fitzgibbon, Maurice 169
Fitzjames Fitzgerald, Gerald 169
Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, James 98, 169
Fitzwilliam, William 300–1, 342, 343
Fleet Street 30
Fleetwood, William 262
Fleming, Abraham 144
Fleming, Lord 97
Fleming, Thomas 249
Fletcher, Rev. Francis 177, 181
Fletcher, Giles 239
Fletcher, Dr Richard, Dean of Peterborough 239–40
Flushing 109, 154, 209, 211, 315–16
food 69, 159–60
prices 262, 296, 359
Forman, Simon 308, 309
Forster, Anthony 49
Fortune Theatre 268, 318
Forty English Martyrs 201
Fotheringay Castle 233, 234, 237, 238
Foxe, John 111, 141–2, 144, 194, 221
France 18, 24, 25, 28, 36, 40, 71, 95, 98, 107–8, 109, 110, 116, 208, 262
Fraser, Lady Antonia 132
Frizier, Ingram 313–15
Frobisher, Humphrey 249
Frobisher, Sir Martin 159, 224, 249, 252, 253, 333
Froude, James Anthony 1, 3, 140, 170, 239, 242, 244, 251, 258, 332
Fuller, Thomas 225
Furnese, Alexander, Duke of Parma 185
Gaelic culture in Ireland 8–9, 11
Galicia 248
Gardner, Helen 62
Gargrave, Sir Thomas 112–13
Garter King of Arms 29
Garvey, William 15
Gascoigne, George 153–7, 160–2, 165, 186
Gascoigne, John 154
Gaunt, John of 122
Gawdy (judge) 235
geographers 221, 227, 337
geometry 317–18
Gérard, Balthasar 207
Gerard, John 118
Germany 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 83, 139, 185, 266
Ghiraldi, Luigi Lilio 220
Ghislieri, Michele
see
Pius V
Giambelli, Federigo 250, 254
Gibbons, Orlando 196
Gibson, Thomas 199
Gilbert, Adrian 219
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey 109, 154, 219, 225, 226
Gillingham 173
Girouard, Mark 133–4
the Globe Theatre 268, 317–18, 358, 369
Goethe 83
gold 174–5, 334–5, 336
the
Golden Hind
(Drake) 176, 178–83
the
Golden Hind
(Fleming) 249
Golding, Arthur 116
Goldingham, Harry 161
Goodman, Bishop 345
Goodman, Christopher 200
Goodman, G. 25
Gorges, Sir Thomas 231, 232
Gorhambury 117
Govian 239
Grafton 157
Grafton, Richard 32
grain prices 298
grammar schools 1, 10, 76, 292, 336
see also
education
Grantham 76
Gravelines 213, 254, 258
Gray’s Inn 45, 153, 297
Great North Road 93
Greene, Robert 270, 271, 274, 277
Greenham, Richard 198
Gregorian calendar 221
Gregory XIII, Pope 112, 186, 220
Grenville, Sir Richard 177, 228, 249, 331–2
Greville, Sir Fulke 359
Grey, Lady Catherine (Seymour) 52–6, 95
Grey, Lady Jane 43, 52, 77, 119
Grey, Reginald 154
Grey de Wilton, Lord 216, 360
Grindal, Edmund 77, 198
Grindal, William 48, 80, 141
Grosart, Rev. A.B. 79
Gruithuissens, Mademoiselle 213
Guiana 293, 331, 333–4, 366
Gunpowder Plot 129, 325, 359
Haarlem 155, 185
Habergham family 76
Habsburgs 40, 185, 187, 244
Hacket, William 286
Hakewill, William 148
Hakluyt, Richard 1, 18, 20, 221–4, 226–7, 228, 284, 336–9
Halifax 261
Hamlet
366–72
Hamlett, Katherine 275, 371
Hampshire 199
Hampshire, Lord Lieutenant of 361
Hampton Court 306
Hardwick Hall 132–4
Hardwick, Elizabeth (Bess) 127–34
see also
St Loe, Elizabeth
Hardwick, James 432
Harefield 329
Harington, Sir John 2, 184, 327, 362
Harlestone, Margaret 69
Harlington 196
Harrington, Sir Henry 12, 202
Harrington, William 61
Harriot, Thomas 226, 227, 228, 325, 336
Harrison, John 180
Harrison, William 143
Harrogate 158
Hart, John 138
Hart, Mary 138–9
harvests 295, 298
Harvey, Gabriel 149, 216, 282, 312
Haselbury 135
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire 26, 27, 28
Hathaway, Anne 125
Hatton, Sir Christopher 42, 163, 175, 176, 236, 243, 300, 348
Haverfordwest 300
Havering 256
Hawkins, Sir John 3, 15–24, 98, 173, 175, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254, 294
Hawkins, Richard 249
Hawkins, William 15, 19, 159, 174
Hawkins, William (son of the above) 19
Haydock family 76
Haywood, Dr John 357
Hazlitt, W. 271
Heath, Nicholas, Archbishop of York 33, 65
Hengrave Hall 135
Henriksson, Helena 232
Henry, Prince of Wales 331
Henry III of France 187
Henry IV of France 350
see also
Navarre, Prince Henri
Henry IV
145–7
Henry V
30, 269
Henry VI
277–8
Henry VII 27, 44, 125, 222
Henry VIII
75
Henry VIII 9, 45, 89, 305, 311
Church of England, 63, 75, 142, 199, 292
dissolution of the monasteries 45, 292
and Ireland 7, 8,
issue 20, 25–7, 291, 299
will 25, 95
Henry the Navigator 17
Henslowe, Philip 268, 269, 270, 318
heralds 137–9
Herbert, George 45
Herbert, Henry 52
Herefordshire 313
hermetics 319–25
Herries, Lord 97
Hertford, Earl of 52–6
Hertfordshire 117
Hext, Edward 295
Heywood, John 202
Heywood, Thomas 202
Higham Ferrers 163
Highgate 78
Hilles, Richard 77
Hilliard, Nicholas 35
The History of the World
325, 326
Hodgkins, Bishop 66
Hofman, François 116
Holdenby 164
Holenlohe, Count 212
Holinshed, Raphael 142, 148
Holland 206, 212, 343
Holmes, George 70
Holyrood 234
Home (park) 163
homes, great houses 133–4
homosexuality 309
The Honest Whore
307
Hooker, Richard 223, 283–7, 292
Hoover, John 143
Horham Hall 135
Horse Guards Parade 293
Howard, Admiral Charles, Earl of Nottingham 249–54, 300, 364
Howard, Lord Henry 352
Howard, Philip 204
Howard, Sir Thomas 98–9, 331, 359
Howard of Effingham, William Howard 15, 42, 162