Read Elizabeth's Spymaster Online
Authors: Robert Hutchinson
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Ireland
Catholicism
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21
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4
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61
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5
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68
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70
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2
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80
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1
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260
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4
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306
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348
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
173
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243
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4
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256
Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
244
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347
charter for Gilbert
246
Consularius
344
Custos Rotulorum
244,
348
death
63
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4
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252
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9
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260
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1
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266
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7
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338
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9
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349
death of daughter Mary
347
diplomatic mission to Holland
347
diplomatic mission to Scotland
239
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334
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5
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348
execution of MQS
17
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169
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74
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176
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8
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180
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7
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195
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6
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200
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2
family
26
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33
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266
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7
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295
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6
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324
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345
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347
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356
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358
Farnham dispute
247
finances
30
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2
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45
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47
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8
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101
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172
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3
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216
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228
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240
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243
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6
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253
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7
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264
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301
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339
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349
Frobisher
246
funding lectureship at Oxford
61
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348
game on website
25
gift of satin for Elizabeth
60
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304
given painting by Elizabeth
244
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5
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335
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6
hunting with dogs
59
ill health
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60
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151
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174
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176
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180
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200
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202
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227
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235
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6
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238
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9
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246
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248
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52
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265
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335
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7
interception of communications
98
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9
interrogation
41
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2
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62
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3
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70
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2
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88
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114
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318
marriage of daughter to Essex
349
marriage of daughter to Sidney
239
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41
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335
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348
matriculation
344
MQS
25
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72
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116
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26
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146
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7
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149
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264
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274
Northern Rebellion
21
not given Babington’s property
172
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3
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251
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349
organisation of land forces
228
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9
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333
Paget
356
paintings
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16
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244
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293
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296
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335
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6
plan to invade England
313
plan to kidnap Papal Legate
89
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90
plot to assassinate Elizabeth
16
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64
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5
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176
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7
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262
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324
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349
plot to free MQS
43
plot to overthrow Elizabeth
54
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5
plot to put MQS on English throne
36
possible marriage of Elizabeth and Alencon
48
possible marriage of Elizabeth and Anjou
46
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7
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347
possible marriage of MQS and Norfolk
39
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41
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116
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300
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346
Principal Secretary of State
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59
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60
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5
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83
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115
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237
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244
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249
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256
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262
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298
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304
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334
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347
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351
Privy Councillor
59
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106
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254
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256
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347
propaganda
16
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39
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41
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61
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102
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183
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223
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4
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264
properties
28
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30
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2
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89
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97
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8
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172
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180
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238
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40
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244
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252
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3
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266
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335
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347
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349
Protestantism
16
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25
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26
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28
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9
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46
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61
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3
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203
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252
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254
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260
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4
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274
psychological warfare
224
relationship with Elizabeth
237
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40
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243
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6
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248
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261
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263
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5
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274
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337
St Bartholomew’s Day massacre
50
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2
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262
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249
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302
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347
secret work for Burghley
34
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6
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346
Sidney’s debts
240
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241
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2
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349
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357
Spanish Armada
17
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203
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205
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20
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222
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36
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258
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264
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330
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3
Spanish plans against France
260
spies and espionage
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17
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46
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60
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1
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80
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2
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83
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115
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149
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216
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20
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223
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4
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237
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8
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247
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256
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9
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262
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264
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5
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268
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9
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275
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92
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309
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15
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331
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2
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342
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3
trial of MQS
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150
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3
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156
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7
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159
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162
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164
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7
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321
warrant for execution of MQS
169
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71
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180
Walsingham, James (FW’s grandfather)
27
Walsingham, Joyce (nee Denny, FW’s mother)
26
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28
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29
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30
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255
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296
Walsingham, Margaret (nee Bamme, FW’s ancestor)
27
Walsingham, Mary (FW’s daughter)
33
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347
Walsingham, Sir Thomas (FW’s cousin)
300
Walsingham, Sir Thomas (FW’s ancestor)
27
Walsingham, Lady Ursula (nee St Barbe, formerly Worsley; FW’s second wife)
31
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3
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297
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336
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358
bribery offer from Williams
343
death of sons
345
FW as ambassador in Paris
46
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301
FW’s epitaph
256
lands and property
252
marriage
345
portrait
32
relationship with Elizabeth
265
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6
St Bartholomew’s Day massacre
50
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1
Walsingham, William (FW’s father)
26
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9
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255
Walton, Roger (spy; ward of Lady Northumberland)
291
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2
Warberton, Lady (Catholic)
93
Warrender, John (yeoman informer)
86
Watson, Thomas (Marian Bishop of London; imprisoned)
68
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305
Webley, Henry (prisoner)
138
Webster, Richard (prisoner)
138
Weldon, Sir Anthony (opinion of Howard)
313
Welsh, James (scholar and spy)
90
Wentworth, Elizabeth (nee Walsingham, formerly Gates; FW’s sister)
296
Wentworth, Mary (FW’s niece)
296
Wentworth, Peter (FW’s brother-in-law)
296
Wesley, John
317
West, James (painting given to FW by Elizabeth)
336
West Indies
203
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209
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10
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214
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328
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352
Westmorland, Charles Neville, Sixth Earl of (exiled)
114
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358
Northern Rebellion
21
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23
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294
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346
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358
Weston, William (alias Edmonds; Jesuit priest)
108
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289
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305
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6
exorcist movement
319
White, Old John (prisoner)
140
White, Richard (executed)
118
White Lion Prison
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40
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306
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319
Whitehall, Walter (prisoner)
139
Whitgift, John (Archbishop of Canterbury)
77
Wickham, William (Bishop of Lincoln)
273
Wiggs, William (priest and prisoner)
140
Wigmore, Sir Richard (execution of MQS)
199