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Percy, Henry, 9th Earl of Northumberland 325, 351

Percy, Sir Jocelyn 358

Percy, Thomas, 7th Earl of Northumberland 99, 101

Perestrello, Bartolomé 17

Perrot, Dorothy 325, 351, 351

Perrot, Sir John 9, 299–302, 342, 351

Perrot, Sir Thomas 325, 351

Perry, Maria 258, 363–4

the
Peter
19

Peterborough Cathedral 241

Pett, Peter 251

Petworth 325

Philip II, King of Spain 52, 81, 86,100, 155, 199, 226, 230, 300, 333, 343, 344

Anglo-Spanish relations 24, 47, 176, 183, 208, 242
Armada 218, 234, 245–6, 250, 253, 255
and the Dudleys 47, 48
and the Low Countries 183, 206–7, 209, 246
and pirate activity 15, 24, 182
marriage 25, 81, 99
son 105–6
see also
Spain

Philips, Miles 23

Pierrepoint, Sir Heny 129

Pieters, Jan 194

Pilgrimage of Grace 93, 100

Pilkington, James, Bishop of Durham 92

piracy 15–24, 173–84

Pius V 105–6

plague 93, 261, 263, 295–7

plantation 8, 13, 17, 226, 336, 353

Plymouth 15, 19, 174, 176, 182, 210, 249

Pocahontas 340–1

poetry 215, 274

Poland 83

Pole, Reginald, Archbishop of Canterbury 33, 44, 65

Poley, Robert 314, 315

Ponte family 19, 20

Poole, John 315

poor relief 263

population 41, 227, 261, 295

Portland, Dukes of 129

Porto Praya 210

portraits 27, 35

Portugal 18, 19, 21, 23, 81, 349

Preston 94

Prince of Orange 155

Principal Navigations
1, 221, 339

Principal Secretary 42

privateers 15, 17

Privy Council 19, 42, 57, 137, 189, 234, 260, 265, 339

prostitutes 305–7

Protestantism 26, 31, 39, 45, 110, 114, 173, 198, 208, 244, 246, 262

Ptolemy 84

Puckering, Sir John 42, 316

publishing 30, 116, 280

and women 122

Queen’s Champion 36, 165, 291–2

Radcliffe, Thomas 8

Raleigh, Sir Walter 81, 150, 152, 223–8, 249, 293, 316, 325–30, 331–7, 349, 355, 373

and Elizabeth Throckmorton 329–31
Guiana 293, 333–6
Ireland 225, 328
treason 229, 325, 335
Virginia 218, 227–8, 336

the
Rata Coronada
252

Rathlin Island 170

Reading 133

Received Pronunciation 81

Recorder of London 29, 262

the
Red Dragon
369

Redshanks 9, 170

The Reformation 60, 61, 64, 72, 73, 145–6, 207, 244, 265, 273, 287, 367, 372

and the Cecil family 45, 120, 346
and the Counter-Reformation 26, 107, 283, 321
and Elizabeth I 32, 40
forwarding of 44, 116, 143, 198, 279
in Ireland 7–10, 169
and schools 75–7, 122

refugees 262

religious dissent 193–205

Renaissance 82, 87, 91

Renny 216

republicanism 299

the
Revenge
252, 331–3

Rich, Penelope 351
see also
Devereux, Penelope

Richard II
358, 359

Richmond 95

Ridgeley 197

Ridolfi, Roberto 99

Rizzio, David 95

Roanoke 227, 228

Roberts, Lewis 183

Robsart, Amy 48, 49

Robsart, Sir John 48

Rochefoucauld, Comete de La, François 110

Rochester, Bishop of (Dr John Young) 216

the
Roebuck
333

Rokesby, Christopher 97

Rolfe, John 341

Rome 319

Romeo and Juliet
303–4

the
Rosario
252

Roscommon 353

the Rose 268

Rossel, Pierre 313

Rowse, A.L. 1, 3, 140, 170, 228

Royal Grammar School 75

Royal Navy 15, 16, 18, 21, 248, 251

Royce, Wenfayd 313

Roydon, John 272

Roydon, Matthew 315

Rufford Abbey 129

rule of law 9, 10, 17

Russell, Francis 173

Russell, Sir William 343, 347

Russia 226

Ruthven, Earl of 95

Rutland, Dukes of 129

Rutland, Earls of 234, 352, 358, 360

Sackville, Sir Richard 80

Sackville, Robert 80

Sackville, Thomas 80

Sadler, Sir Ralph 189

St Albans 117, 128

St Augustine 320

St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre 110–12, 114, 120, 186–9, 276

St Botolph’s, Bishopgate 308

St Loe, Edward 129

St Loe, Elizabeth (Bess) 55–6

St Loe, Sir William 129

St Margaret’s, Westminster 297

St Paul’s 62, 64–5, 75, 78, 79, 137, 202, 267, 268, 297, 338, 350

Salford 202

Salisbury 308

Salisbury, Bishop of 68, 284

Salisbury, Dean Bridges of 282

Salisbury, Earl of, Robert Cecil 331

the
Salomon
19

Salusbury, John 357

Salusbury, Owen 357–8

Salusbury, Thomas 358

San Domingo 210

San Juan de Ulúa 23

the
San Martin
254

the
San Salvador
259

Sanders, Nicholas 115

Sandwich 297

Sandys, Edwin, Bishop of London 194

Sandys, Lord 358, 360

Santa Cruz 19

the
Santa Cruz
333

Santa Cruz, Marquis of Don Alvaro de Bazan, 209, 246, 247, 250

Santiago 210

Saravia, Dr 287

Saunder, Nicholas 90

Saunders, William 22

Scaramelli, Giovanni, Venetian Ambassador 363

Scargill, Margaret 154

Schifanoya, Il 64

‘Scholar of Night’ 333

scholarships 79

‘School of Night’ 327, 334

schools
see
education

Schwarzenburg, Countess of 207

scientists 84

Scory, John 66

Scotland 8, 9, 12, 37, 44, 95, 125, 221, 234, 301, 342, 343

Scylla 255

sea monsters 223

Seccombe, Thomas 54

Sedbergh 76

Sedgefield 100

‘seditious words’ 297, 298, 301

Seton, Mary 131

sex 303–16

Seymour, Catherine
see
Grey, Lady Catherine

Seymour, Jane 26, 188

Seymour, Lady Jane 53, 55

Seymour, Lord Admiral 45

Seymour, Thomas 27

Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 36, 45, 76, 81, 125, 140, 142, 215, 266, 270, 309, 311, 357

sonnets 205, 298, 304, 347, 348
see also under individual plays

Sharp, Dr Leonel 257

Sheffield 129, 261

Sheffield, Lady Douglas 162–3

Sherborne 76

Sherborne Castle 327, 329, 334

ship conditions 177, 259

Shrewsbury 76

Shrewsbury, Earl of 42, 97, 129–31, 133, 238, 239, 240, 242, 261

Shropshire 129, 311

Sidney, Elizabeth 211

Sidney, Frances, Countess of Sussex 122, 349, 362

Sidney, Mary, Countess of Pembroke 45, 56, 122, 123, 135, 166, 211, 215, 224

Sidney, Philip 2, 10, 45, 76, 119, 135, 189, 207, 215, 223, 225, 292, 319, 326, 357

and America 210–11
Arcadia and poetry 35–6, 119, 136, 149, 166, 167, 172, 205, 210, 213, 230, 265, 284,
and Campion 115, 204–5
and Ireland 171–2
and Leicester 114, 170, 212, 213, 348
and the Low Countries 211–13, 230
and Spenser 149–50
and Walsingham 111, 211, 214, 349

Sidney, Robert 212, 315, 359

Sidney, Sir Henry 9–10, 11, 56, 114, 138, 170–2, 342

Sierra Leone 19, 21, 22, 369

Sitsylt, David 45

Sixtus V, Pope 198, 208, 230, 208

Skelton, John 141

Skeres 314

Slater, Martin 269

slavery 16–17, 20, 21

Sluys 109

Smerwick 225

Smith, Sir Thomas 200

Smythson, Robert 133, 134, 135

social class 128, 262, 266

social mobility 136

Somerset 129, 135, 205

Somerset, Duke (or Lord Protector) 43, 45, 53, 76

Somerset, Lady Anne 188

Somerville, John 164–5

Southampton, Earl of (Henry Wriothesley) 215, 304, 350, 352, 357–61

Southwark 306–7, 318

Spain 16, 18, 23, 40, 98, 170, 173, 179, 200, 206

the Armada 244–60, 342, 349
and Catholicism 72, 297–8
possibility of attack 109, 182
see also
Philip II, King of Spain

Speght, Rachel 122

Spencer, Alice 329

Spenser, Edmund 136, 149–52, 225, 266, 292, 299, 357

and Ireland 2, 11, 13, 18, 147–8, 353
The
Faerie Queene
30, 34, 152, 166–8, 322–3, 328–9, 353
schooling 78–9, 216

Spice Islands 180

spies 88, 108, 114, 115, 272

spinsters 125

Stafford 137, 351

Stafford, Lady Dorothy 129

Stafford, Lady Douglas 338

Stafford, Sir Edward 162, 222

Staffordshire 129, 130, 162, 230

Standen, Anthony 347

Stanhope, Sir John 359

Stanley, Dean 242

Stanley, Ferdinando 329

Stanyhurst, Richard 143

Starkey, Dr David 44

Stevenson, Thomas 70

Stone, Lawrence 138

Storey, Dr 114

Stow, John 140–1, 143, 148, 202

Strange, Lord 329

Stratford-upon-Avon 76, 140, 160, 266, 275

Street, Peter 318

Stretes, Guillim 27

Stuart, Arbella 129, 359

Stuart, Charles 129

Stuart, Henry
see
Darnley, Lord

Stuart, Henry, Cardinal of York 241

Stuart, Matthew, Earl of Lennox 57

Stubbes, Philip 160

Stubbs, John 144, 189

succession question 39, 108, 298

Suffolk 136, 222, 338

Suffolk, Duchess of 52

Suffolk, Dukes of 128

Summerson, John 117

Sunday schools 77

Surrey, Earl of 8, 101

Sussex 73, 135, 154

Sussex, Countess of 122
see also
Sidney, Frances

Sussex, Earl of 8–9, 114, 352, 358

Sutton Court 129

the Swan Theatre 268, 306

the
Swan
174, 176

Swetnam, Joseph 122

the
Swiftsure
349

Swinburne, John 99–100

Talbot, George, Earl of Shrewsbury 129, 242

Tallis, Thomas 2, 195

tanistry 8

Tavistock 173

taxation 158–9, 171

Tello de Guzmán, Don Rodrigo 254

The Tempest
17

Tempest, Michael 203

Tempest, Robert 92, 99

Temple Church 76, 285

tennis 137

Tennyson, A. 70, 332

Terceira 246, 252

Terwoot, Hendrick 194

the Thames 44, 46, 118, 199, 226, 237, 246, 250, 255, 313, 373

Thames Street 308

theatre 267–78

The Theatre of God’s Judgements
312

Theobalds 117–18, 157

Thirsk 94

Thomas, Hugh 16

the
Thomas of Plymouth
254

Thorn, Robert 76

Thrale, Henry 317–18

Thrale, Hester 317–18

Throckmorton, Anna 330

Throckmorton, Arthur 330

Throckmorton, Elizabeth 229, 282, 329, 331

Throckmorton, Francis 319

Throckmorton, Job 282, 283

Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas 54, 98

Thynne, Francis 143

Thynne, Sir John 133, 135, 331

Tilbury 256

Tillyard, E.M.W. 286

Tilney, Edmund 126

Tixall 231, 232

Totnes 261

Tottel, Richard 30

Tower of London 29, 31, 46, 54, 56, 99, 107, 120, 204, 229, 233, 301, 325, 330, 331, 335, 361

Towneley, Sir Richard 76

trade 179, 180, 182, 183, 226

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
272–4

travellers and language 81

Travers, Walter 285

treason 46, 53–4, 63, 106, 197

Arden 165
Campion 145, 204
Doughty 177
Harrington 61
Northumberland 46
Parry 314
Perrot 301, 351
Raleigh 229, 325, 335
Treason Act 143

Treaty of Blois 109

Treaty of Edinburgh 95, 346

Tregian of Golden, Francis 200

Trenchard, Sir George 326

Tresham, Francis 359

trial by jury 10

Tridentine 105

Trigge, Francis 199

the
Trinidad Valencera
246

Trismegistus, Hermes 85, 87, 319, 323, 325

the
Triumph
252, 253

Troilus and Cressida
304

‘Tudor Taffia’ 44, 299

Tudor, Margaret 57

Turkey 82

Tutbury 101, 230

Twelfth Night
124, 357

Tyburn 100, 204, 301

Tyrone, Earl of 342–4, 352–5, 364

Ulster 2, 8, 12, 114, 141, 342–3, 352, 353

Unfortunate Traveller
294

universities 122, 266–7, 292

Ireland 10, 114

University Wits 266, 270, 271, 277

Unten, Henry 347

Upton-upon-Severn 88

Valois, Marguerite of 109–10

van Buchell, Arend 317

van der Noor, Jan 167

Vautrollier, Thomas 116

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