May 1558. Cal. Span ., XIII, 388.
58. APC , VI, p. 303,13 April 1558. Ruy Gomez to the queen, 26 July 1558. TNA SP69/13/811 (English copy).
59. Loach, Parliament and the Crown , pp. 159-72.
60. Ibid., p. 161. 4 & 5 Philip and Mary, c.16.
61. L. O. Boynton, The Elizabethan Militia, 1558–1638 (1967).
62. Feria to Philip, 2 February 1558. Cal. Span ., XIII, 351.
63. Machyn, Diary , p. 161.
64. TNA SP11/11/57. Loades, Reign of Mary , p. 375. Mayer, Reginald Pole , pp. 320-1.
65. For a recent and favourable assessment of the church at the end of Mary’s reign, see Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith; Catholic England under Mary Tudor (2009), pp. 171-187.
11 Mary & Elizabeth
1. For example the manors of Chingford, Runwell and Rivenhall in Essex, granted in March 1555. Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Philip and Mary , I, p. 225. It was Giovanni Michieli from whom she obtained the coach. J. A. Rowley Williams, ‘Image and Reality: The Lives of Aristocratic Women in Early Tudor England’ (University of Wales PhD, 1998),p. 232.
2. TNA LC9/52/21.
3. Mayer, Reginald Pole , pp. 302-55.
4. Machyn, Diary , p. 143.
5. Ibid., p. 159. For a full discussion of this sermon and its significance, see Eamon Duffy, ‘Cardinal Pole Preaching: St Andrew’s Day 1557’, in Duffy and Loades, The Church of Mary Tudor , pp. 176-200.
6. Loades, Mary Tudor , pp. 370-1.
7. TNA SP11/14, no. 1.
8. A. Feuillerat, Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary (1914), p. 335.
9. Ibid., pp. 225-31. For a fuller discussion of this see Loades, Intrigue and Treason (2004), p. 225.
10. Machyn, Diary , p. 162.
11. Cal. Ven ., VI (ii), ii May 1557, p. 1,054.
12. Michieli had earlier said that she understood Spanish, but did not speak it. Loades, Mary Tudor , p. 225.
13. Loades, Intrigue and Treason , pp. 217-18.
14. Ibid., p. 226. Jane appears to have been an ‘innocent’, that is an adult with the mental age of a child. She had been in Mary’s service for many years. John Southworth, Fools and, Jesters at the English Court (1998), pp. 100-6.
15. Loades, Mary Tudor , pp. 302-3.
16. BL Add. MS 710009.
17. Ibid., f. i5v. Extracts from the document, edited by Fiona Kisby, were published in Ian Archer et al . (eds), Religion, Politics and Society in Sixteenth Century England , Camden Society (2003), pp. 18-35.
18. Loades, Intrigue and Treason , pp. 222-3.
19. BL Add. MS 710009, ff. 31-2.
20. David Loades, The Tudor Court (1986), pp. 63-4. William Cecil later made strenuous efforts to stamp out this ‘room service’.
21. TNA E351/1795.
22. On Cornwallis, see R. C. Braddock, ‘The Rewards of Office Holding in Tudor England’, Journal of British Studies , 14 (1975) pp. 29-47.
23. Loades, Mary Tudor , pp. 370-80.
24. Surian to the doge and senate, 15 January 1558, Cal. Ven ., VI (ii) p. 1427. Philip to Pole, 21 January, Cal. Span ., XIII , p. 340.
25. Loades, Mary Tudor , p. 302.
26. Ibid., p. 377.
27. TNA SP11/13, nos. 51, 52, 54, 55, etc.
28. Machyn, Diary , pp. 161-2. Sir Edward Hastings (master of the horse) became lord chamberlain, Sir Thomas Cornwallis controller, Sir Henry Jerningham master of the horse, and Sir Henry Bedingfield vice chamberlain and captain of the guard.
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1. Cal. Span ., XIII, 398. Loades, Reign of Mary , p. 333.
2. Feria to Philip, I May 1558. Cal. Span ., XIII, 378-80.
3. Notes in Renard’s hand for a letter to Philip (it is not certain that it was ever sent), dated in the Calendar ‘March ? 1558’, but apparently written before the author knew of Thomas Stafford’s execution on 28 May 1557. Cal. Span ., XIII, 272-3.
4. Loades, Mary Tudor , p. 303.
5. BL Cotton MS Titus B.II, f. 109. Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials , III, ii, p. 418.
6. Feria to Philip, 23 June 1558. Cal. Span ., XIII, 399-400.
7. Machyn, Diary , pp. 166-7.
8. T. Glasgow, ‘The Navy in the French Wars of Mary and Elizabeth, 1557–59’, Mariners Mirror , 53 (1967),
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