God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (80 page)

Gifford, Mary 150–1

Gilbert, George 52–3, 56, 59–60, 65–6, 110

Gilbey, Peter Hubert Gordon (Fr Gabriel), 9th Baron Vaux 364

Globe Theatre, London 3, 239, 241, 263

Glorious Revolution, 1688–9 24, 363

Golden Lane, Clerkenwell 209

Grace Dieu, Leicestershire 19–20

Grant, Dorothy 283, 305

Grant, John 283, 286–7, 293, 294, 300

Great Ashby, Leicestershire 139, 155
n
, 165, 166, 185, 271, 351

Greenstreet House, East Ham 66–7

Gregory XIII, Pope xix, 54, 57, 68, 90

Gregory, Arthur 337
n

Griffin, Hugh 352

Grissold, John,
alias
James Johnson 167, 219, 279, 300, 301, 330
n

Grissold, Robert 279

Guildford, Jane, Lady 9, 9
n

Guise, Henri, Duke of xviii, 90, 95, 96, 106, 111

Gunpowder Plot, 1605 xvii, xviii, xix, 149–50, 155, 229, 240, 269
n
, 271–355; pilgrimage to St Winifred’s Well, Wales, 1605, and 1, 2, 286–9, 291, 293, 306, 319, 320, 323, 336, 342; interrogation of Anne Vaux 1–2, 341–3; Catesby’s background and 271–3; accession of James I and 273–9; Catesby’s attempt to discover Spanish policy concerning England and 280–1; Fawkes in Spain 280–1; Fawkes arrives in London 281–2; plan hatched, 1604 281–3; plotters take an oath of secrecy, then receive communion from Gerard, 1604 281–2, 306, 323; delays to 283; meeting, August 1605, gives go-ahead for Catesby to recruit more men and money for 283; kinship ties of plotters 283–4; character of plotters 284, 294; Midlands and 283–4, 285, 306; Eliza Vaux’s letter to Agnes Wenman (
Pray, for Tottenham may turn French
) and 265–6, 267, 285, 286, 294, 301–5, 307, 313, 315; Catesby uses war in Flanders as front for martial preparations 286, 290, 294; Catesby posits hypothetical question on ‘killing innocents’ to Garnet, June 1605 289–91; Garnet sends Sir Edmund Baynham to seek advice of papacy on 292–3, 323; Tesimond informs Garnet of ‘all the matter’ of 292; Anne Vaux’s foreknowledge of 294–5; Catesby and Wintour attempt to recruit Francis Tresham to 295–7; Garnet’s stay at Coughton Court and 296–7; plot discovered 298–300; search for conspirators 299–307, 308–13; last stand of conspirators at Holbeach House 300; search of White Webbs 300–1
see also
White Webbs; suspicion falls on Eliza Vaux 301–7
see also
Vaux, Eliza; Fawkes reveals Gerard’s link to plotters 306–7, 323; Harrowden Hall searched 308–13; Eliza Vaux questioned on 13–20; Eliza Vaux committed to care of Swynnerton 315–20; fate of wives and kinswomen of plotters 315–20; Gerard flees England 318, 320, 349–50; trial of plotters 321–4, 328; Hindlip raid and capture of Garnet 324–8; imprisonment of Garnet 329–38, 341; trial of Garnet 344–6, 347; execution of Garnet 349–51

Habington, Dorothy 187

Habington, Mary 324, 325, 326, 329, 341

Habington, Thomas 324, 325, 326, 327

Habington, William 324

Hackney xix, xx, 92, 99, 100, 104, 105, 112–24, 128, 129, 131, 137–8, 146, 187, 204, 223, 224, 228

Harington, Sir John 4, 275, 278

Harrington, William 104

Harris, Thomas 111, 111
n

Harrowden Hall xvii, xviii, 5, 14, 218; priests harboured at
see under individual priest name
; Vaux family established at 10; chantry 15; private chapel 31, 65, 177, 258, 258
n
, 259, 356; Lord Vaux defends as ‘a parish by itself’ 64–5, 75, 123; set of vestments at 175, 258–9; present-day 223, 253, 258
n
; Lord Vaux moves out of 230; Tresham quarrels with Eliza Vaux over ‘a petty portion of winter grass’ on estate of 230; Eliza Vaux returns to and builds extension, 1599 258; library 258; James I stays at, 1605 285, 286; hunt for Gunpowder Plot conspirators and 301–2, 307, 308–12; raided, 1611 356–7; sold, 1694 363

Harsnett, Samuel 118–19, 120, 120
n
, 121, 121
n
, 122, 130, 187;
Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
118–21, 263

Hart, Nicholas, S.J. 357

Harvington Hall, Worcestershire 5, 179, 324

Hastings, Francis 43, 44, 47, 73

Hatton, Sir Christopher 89, 90, 257

Hatton, Lady Elizabeth 257

Henri III of France, King 197

Henry VII, King 9

Henry VIII, King xviii, xix, 8, 9, 9
n
, 10, 11, 14–15, 22–3, 225, 266

Henry, Prince of Wales (son of James I) 282

Heywood, Jasper, S.J. 91, 149

Heywood, John 266

Hill, James 101

Hindlip, Worcestershire xviii, 187, 324–8, 341, 349

Hobbes, Thomas 159

Hoby, Sir Edward 316

Holbeach House, Staffordshire 300, 327
n

Hollis, William 100

Holt, William 208

Holtby, Richard, S.J. 354

Hooper, John, Bishop of Gloucester 16, 79

House of Lords 10–11, 21–2, 30–2, 63, 161, 238, 282, 359, 362–3, 364

Hoxton 57, 59, 92, 100–1, 109–11, 135, 136, 138–9, 141, 161, 216, 229–30, 273, 298

Huddington Court, Worcestershire 293, 300, 323

Huddlestone, Dorothy 299, 315

Huddlestone, Henry 299, 303–4, 304
n
, 306, 307, 309, 313

Hunt, Thomas,
alias
Benstead 188–9

Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of 43

Hurleyford, Buckinghamshire 136, 178

Hutchinson, William 165, 182

ink, secret 2, 126, 246, 329, 332, 336, 336
n
, 337

Ireland 4, 25, 26, 54, 60, 70, 160
n
, 208

Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire 20, 28, 122, 164, 230, 231, 233, 237, 254, 257, 299, 308

Isabella, Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Castile 275

James I, King of England (James VI of Scotland) xviii, xix, 2, 96
n
, 107, 125, 224, 238, 267
n
, 271, 275–9, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 291, 298–9, 320, 322, 323, 356, 359, 360, 361
n

Jesuits
see
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Johnson, Robert 93, 94

Jonson, Ben 118, 182
n
, 205
n
, 334

Kellison, Matthew 256

Kellison, Valentine 100, 256

Kettering, Northamptonshire 38, 39, 152, 227, 257, 309, 310, 359

Keyes, Robert 282, 285

Killinghall, Henry 260

Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire 257–62

Kirby, Luke 93, 93
n

Knightley, Sir Richard 38, 229–60, 359–61

Knollys, Charles 258
n
, 362

Knollys, Sir Francis 71, 83, 88

Knollys, William, Earl of Banbury 361–2

Kurde, John 19

Lacy, Mrs Kath 46

Laithwood, John 310–11

Lake, Sir Thomas 299

Lane, William 80–1

Lawson, Dorothy 149, 151, 180

Lee, Roger 257, 261

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of 8, 25, 37, 73, 83, 84, 104
n
, 113

‘Leicester’s Commonwealth’ (tract), 1584 104
n

Lennox, Esmé Stuart, Duke of 90, 95, 102

Lessius, Leonard, S.J.:
The Treasure of Vowed Chastity in Secular Persons
167–8, 211, 339, 340, 355–6

Lillie, John xix, 219, 246, 247, 248–9, 249, 250, 257

Line, Anne 155, 249, 249
n

Lister, Thomas, S.J. 189, 213

Loarte, Gaspar, S.J. 48–9, 340
n

Lopez, Roderigo 207–8

Lovell, Jane, Lady (sister of Eliza Vaux) 225, 232, 255, 316, 316
n

Low Countries 4, 23, 27, 48, 96, 103, 106, 113, 161, 206, 237, 238, 281

Loyola, Ignatius, S.J. (Jesuit founder) 48–9, 53, 151
n
, 172
n
, 211, 356, 365

Lyford Grange, Berkshire 5, 60, 68

Mainy, Richard 113, 120
n
, 121
n

Mallory, Simon 46

Manwood, Lord Chief Baron 88

Margaret of Anjou 9

Marian burnings 18–19, 20, 35
n
, 199

Markham, Anne, Lady 318

Markham, Robert 109

Markham, Sir Griffin 277, 318

Marlowe, Christopher:
The Massacre at Paris
208

Marshalsea prison, Southwark 56, 57, 108, 138, 138
n
, 139

Marwood, Nicholas 112, 113, 123–4, 130

Mary I, Queen 11, 17–19, 21, 22, 23–4, 35
n
, 52, 77, 79, 162–3, 188
n
, 207, 228, 260

Mary Queen of Scots xviii, xix, 4, 23, 27, 33, 34–5, 36, 37, 70, 90, 96, 104
n
, 106, 107, 125, 126, 127, 128, 228, 250, 275, 276

Mass, Catholic: secret practice of 3, 7, 44, 45, 68, 72, 76, 77, 89, 90, 91, 101
n
, 104, 114, 128, 136, 138, 155, 156, 177–81, 186, 193–4, 287, 288, 310, 355, 356, 359; Vaux practice of 3, 7, 89, 90, 91, 102, 104, 114, 128, 138, 186, 193–4, 258, 260, 356, 359; under Henry VIII 8, 10; Protestant reformers view of 13, 14; Edward VI ‘purification’ of English church and 16, 16
n
; return under Mary I 18; abolished under Elizabeth I 21, 40, 50, 236; northern rebels hear at Durham Cathedral, 1569 27; early Christians use Roman catacombs to hear 50; lack of English priests to hear 51; hearing of punishable by fines (Act of Persuasions) 63; English mission granted papal permission to hear 54; equipment needed for 101
n
, 172
n
, 175–7, 246; exorcisms and 114; possible locations for 177; raids on secret 177–81, 193–4; in prison 244, 246; gunpowder plotters and 282; nineteenth-century laws concerning 364

Mayne, Cuthbert 52

Mendoza, Bernardino de (Spanish Ambassador in London) xix, 90, 131–2, 273–4

Mercurian, Everard, S.J. (Jesuit General) 54–5, 57, 59, 64

Meredith, John 105

Meredith, Jonas 104–5

Midlands: Catholic houses in
xii–xiii
, 48; Gunpowder Plot and 282, 283, 284, 285, 296, 299, 300, 306, 307, 309, 322;
see also under individual area and place name

Mildmay, Sir Walter xix, 37, 61, 62, 64, 73–4, 76, 77, 83, 84, 87

Miller, Ralph 103–5

Miracle Book
114, 116, 121

Monica’s, St, Louvain 182, 183–4, 238

Moninge, Elizabeth 152

Montagu, Henry 257

Montagu, Elizabeth, Lady 75–6, 78, 80–2, 84, 89, 148

Montagu, Sir Edward 38, 75, 78, 80, 81, 84, 89, 259, 321, 358

Montague, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount 21, 25, 89, 162

Montague, Anthony Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount 358, 392

Monteagle, William Parker, Baron 272, 280, 291, 298, 299, 309

Moray, James Stuart, Earl of 28

Mordaunt family 38, 285

More, Thomas 8, 171
n
, 224

Morecrofts, near Uxbridge 218, 250, 271

Morgan, Henry 286, 293–4, 398

Morgan, Mary 286, 293–4, 398

Morgan, Nicholas 96

Morgan, Polidore 96, 97

Morgan, Roland 96

Morgan, Thomas 96, 97

‘Morgan’ (recipient of a Vaux letter) 96

Mulsho, Robert 80

Mulsho, Thomas 257

Netherlands
see
Low Countries

Neville, Sir Henry 356

Newgate prison, London 202, 341

Nicolson (servant to Lord Vaux/priest) 92–4