Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
Introduction 182
The manuscript 182
The author 183
The content of the manuscript 188
Politics and the Vita Mariae 192
Editorial procedure and acknowledgements 195
Text 196
Translation 244
Notes to the text 294
page 182 note 1 Metcalfe, 184. Unless otherwise stated, all subsequent details of marriage alliances are derived from Metcalfe.
page 182 note 2 Letters pasted on the flyleaf of B.L., Add. MS 48195.
page 183 note 1 D.N.B., s.v. Wingfield, Humphrey, Richard and Robert.
page 183 note 2 C.P.R., Hen. VII, ii. 305, 559.Google Scholar
page 184 note 1 P.R.O., SP 1/41/97–8 (L.P., iv (2), no.2989).
page 184 note 2 P.R.O., SP 1/13/251 (L.P., ii (1), no.2170).
page 184 note 3 L.P., iv(2), App. no.67.
page 184 note 4 L.P., iv(2), no.6516.
page 184 note 5 Gibbon, 158–9, from information clearly derived from William Blois (I owe this reference to Dr J.M. Blatchly).
page 184 note 6 L.P., i, no.2055(95).
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page 184 note 8 Bacon, , 178, 197.Google Scholar
page 184 note 9 L.P., xii (1), no.1330(30); xiii (1), no.1520, p.580.
page 184 note 1 0 He was recorded as aged 38 in a deposition of 1551: P.R.O., REQ 3/36, unnumbered material, John Peryn v. Robert Broke.
page 185 note 1 The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, ed. [J.A.] Giles (4 vols. Oxford, 1864–5), ii. 135. D.N.B., s.v. Ascham, Roger, mistakenly says that Ascham was educated in the household of Sir Anthony Wingfield. In his will (PCC 23 Alen), Sir Humphrey Wingfield referred to the ‘Chamber sometyme called the scoole howse with the litle chambr annexed to the same’ at his Ipswich house.
page 185 note 2 P.R.O., KB 9/534, mm.5–8.
page 185 note 3 Ryan, L. V., Roger Ascham (Stanford, 1963), 12Google Scholar; P.S.I.A., xxii (1934), 39.Google Scholar
page 186 note 1 Foxe, v. 530.
page 186 note 2 P.R.O., C 1/1186/68.
page 186 note 3 P.R.O., C 1/1279/76. On the Ipswich camp, see MacCulloch, , ‘Kett’Google Scholar
page 186 note 4 C.P.R., P. and M., iii, 85.Google Scholar
page 187 note 1 P.R.O., C 3/20/12, C 3/41/21.
page 187 note 2 Venn, iv. 438.
page 187 note 3 P.S.I.A., vii (1889), 68.Google Scholar
page 187 note 4 Blois MS, Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), GC 17/755, p.166.
page 187 note 5 Parker, W., History of Long Melford (privately printed, 1873), 70f.Google Scholar
page 188 note 1 D.N.B., s.v. Cavendish, George.
page 188 note 2 MacCulloch, , ‘Kett’.Google Scholar
page 188 note 3 Q. Jane and Q. Mary, 9.Google Scholar
page 189 note 1 See P.S.I.A., vii (1889), 57–67Google Scholar, for a convenient summary of Wingfield pedigrees.
page 189 note 2 See MacCulloch thesis, chs. 4 and 7.
page 189 note 3 His attendance at Bury Quarter Sessions is recorded for 1551 in the estreats of fines in the exchequer, P.R.O., E 137/42/4, and he probably attended in subsequent years for which estreats do not survive.
page 190 note 1 Rutton, W. L., Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth (1891), 46.Google Scholar
page 191 note 1 Foxe, vi. 387.
page 191 note 2 Cf. MacCulloch thesis, 59, 65–6, 315.
page 192 note 1 Antonio de Guaras, Relacion may verdadera de Antonio de Guaras; criado de la … reyna de Inglaterra; al … Duque de Albuquerque …, (Medina del Campo, 1554)Google Scholar: translated and edited by Richard Garnett (1892).
page 192 note 2 Machyn's Diary, 56.Google Scholar
page 192 note 3 Venn, , iv. 438.Google Scholar
page 193 note 1 See Harbison, E. H., Rival Ambassadors at the Court of Queen Mary (Princeton, 1940).Google Scholar
page 196 note a & MS
page 197 note a futuram MS
page 198 note a ut erased
page 199 note a doctata MS
page 200 note a athoritate MS
page 200 note b confirmetur MS
page 201 note a haeredem MS
page 201 note b tanti MS
page 202 note a Beaufort written above in a later hand
page 203 note a itenere MS
page 203 note b Londiensi MS
page 206 note a fili- MS
page 207 note a covocari MS
page 207 note b proclamamatione MS
page 208 note a Thomas inserted in a later hand
page 210 note a tempesta MS
page 213 note a Thomas Brendus erased
page 214 note a vel Henricus Fines erased
page 217 note a subi- MS
page 219 note a honini MS
page 219 note a moram MS
page 219 note b miserecordia MS
page 222 note a costodiam MS
page 222 note b Marked with asterisk and Ingerston inserted in the margin
page 222 note c Crossed out and Somerset substituted in a later hand
page 223 note a avorum MS
page 224 note a concianotorem MS
page 225 note a magnifcentissime MS
page 225 note b insumulatus MS
page 226 note a miserecordia MS
page 226 note b vetreri MS
page 226 note c Crossed out and Henricus Clinton substituted above and in the margin
page 227 note a splendidam MS
page 227 note b vaetus MS
page 227 note c paesul MS
page 228 note a ficile MS
page 229 note a munusculus MS
page 229 note b despicere MS
page 229 note c periclitare MS
page 230 note a homisnes MS
page 231 note a capescit MS
page 232 note a prudentissam MS
page 232 note b significa- MS
page 232 note c faerocientes MS
page 233 note a opidi MS
page 233 note b Altered in another hand to daretur
page 236 note a depraehendens MS
page 236 note b Corrected in a different hand to sim
page 236 note c alliquot MS
page 236 note d nova MS
page 237 note a depraehensi MS
page 238 note a peraegrationem MS
page 238 note b religiosus MS
page 239 note a initabatur MS
page 239 note b Admiraldi written above in a later hand
page 239 note c Altered to potuisse in a later hand
page 240 note a Admiraldus above in a later hand
page 241 note a miserecordiam MS
page 241 note b celebrato MS
page 242 note a aeditum MS
page 242 note b enius MS
page 243 note a responsu' MS
page 243 note b dedicerat MS
page 243 note c primogeniti MS
page 243 note d foedorum altered with a stroke in MS