⁷¹³ Mr Burbury cannot be traced. These disbursements were made either on 10 December or on the morning of the 11th before Leicester departed from Flushing for Middelburg, see Appendix II.

⁷¹⁴ Probably Thomas Grey, one of the ‘four masters of England’, see Adams, ‘New Light on the “Reformation” of John Hawkins’, E.H.R., cv (1990), 97, n. 3.Google Scholar

⁷¹⁵ For the name of the ship, see Appendix II.

⁷¹⁶ A transcriptional error for Edmund Carye.

⁷¹⁷ The ‘first night’ was 10 December.

⁷¹⁸ Leicester remained at Middelburg from 11 to 17 December.

⁷¹⁹ For Gifford, see n. 434 above. John Knewstub (1544–1624), rector of Cockfield (Suff.), was the central figure in the Suffolk classis. No earlier direct connection to Leicester is known, but in the dedication of his Lectures upon Exodus XX (STC 15043, 1578 edition) to the Countess of Warwick he referred to his ‘dutie towards any of the honourable house of Warwick, to the which I am in so many ways indebted’. Dudley Fenner (d. 1589) was parson of Cranbrook (Kent), but had been suspended in the summer of 1585. He had joined Thomas Cartwright in Antwerp in the late 1570s and was more or less an open presbyterian. His Christian name suggests some connection to the Dudleys and he dedicated his ‘Book of Religion’ (BL, Harl. MS 6879) to Leicester and Warwick. It is dated only 14 October, but the introduction by Cartwright refers to Fenner's recent suspension, which suggests 1585. Leicester's choice of such a formidable group of presbyterians as chaplains in the Netherlands has attracted attention, and it is the more curious because they were not typical of his household chaplains (see Adams, , ‘A Godly Peer? The Earl of Leicester and the Puritans’, History Today, xl (01 1990), 18Google Scholar; it should be noted that a line has been dropped in the list of chaplains in the text which distorts their names). It may be that his choice was a political one (as is suggested in Adams, ‘The Protestant Cause: Religious Alliance with the West European Calvinist Communities as a Political Issue in England, 1585–1630’ (Unpub. Oxford University D.Phil thesis, 1972), p. 67), but it should also be noted that Gifford, Fenner and Humphrey Fenn (nn. 593, 689) had been recently suspended. They were thus free of pastoral responsibility at home, and service abroad could be used to support a case for restoration. Knewstub is the exception, but he appears to have returned to England after April 1586.

⁷²⁰ Nicholas Saunders (d. 1605), MP. Leicester wrote a letter of recommendation for him for a journey to Constantinople in 1584 (Bodl., MS Tanner 79, fo. 215, to William Harbourne, 4 April 1584), and later recommended his appointment as ambassador there (CSPF, 1586–7, 92Google Scholar, to Walsingham, , 18 07 1586).Google Scholar

⁷²¹ At the same time as Leicester left Harwich, another convoy of ships carrying his supplies and the remainder of his train had left London, see Leic. Corres., 463.Google Scholar

⁷²² Charles Francx, see n. 702 above.

⁷²³ Leicester left Middelburg for Dordrecht on 17 December but his hoys and barges were delayed by winds and fog and did not arrive until the 21st. On the 14th he informed the Privy Council that Maurice of Nassau and the delegates from the States-General had requested that he go to the Hague, see Appendix II.

⁷²⁴ Davison. It is not clear from the correspondence whether Davison was waiting for Leicester at Flushing or came from Middelburg with Maurice of Nassau later on 10 December (see Appendix II).

⁷²⁵ Sir William Russell (1559?–1613), MP, later Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, the fourth son of the 2nd Earl of Bedford and Warwick's brother-in-law. He had served in Ireland and was appointed lieutenant of the horse in 1586. He succeeded Sidney as governor of Flushing.

⁷²⁶ Leicester arrived at Dordrecht on 21 December and stayed until the 23rd when he departed for Rotterdam.

⁷²⁷ On 24 December he left Rotterdam for Delft and stayed there until the 27th when he went to the Hague.

⁷²⁸ He remained at the Hague until 3 January when he went to Leiden.

⁷²⁹ George is a transcriptional error for (William) Gorge*.

⁷³⁰ Philip, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenberg (1550–1606), Hollock being the anglicisation. Hohenlohe was connected to the house of Nassau by marriage and close to Maurice. In 1584 he had been appointed commander of the Dutch forces, and although Leicester recognised this by commissioning him lieutenant-general, he resented the English influence and a major antagonism developed later in 1586.

⁷³¹ Litchford is an error for Pitchford, and London for Leiden.

⁷³² (Sir) George Digby (1550–87), of Colshill, Wars., MP. Digby was an increasingly important figure in Leicester's following in the 1580s, see ‘West Midlands’, 42. He was to be a colonel in a proposed regimental reorganisation of the English contingent in 1586 (CSPF, 1585–6, 667Google Scholar, T. Doyley to Burghley, 24 May 1586).

⁷³³ Herons and a bittern. Leicester returned to the Hague from Leiden on 5 January and on the 7th began negotiations with the States-General over the governor-generalship; these continued until the 16th (17–26 January according to the Gregorian calendar), see the Dutch account of the negotiations, printed in Brugmans, H. (ed.), Correspondentie van Robert Dudley, Graaf van Leycester … 1585–88 (Historich Genootschap, 3rd ser. lvi–viii, 1931), i, 31–62.Google Scholar

⁷³⁴ Leicester returned to Leiden on 11 January, leaving the negotiations in the hands of Sidney and Davison, and remained there until the 20th. Fredericke was Frederigo Jenebelli, the engineer at Antwerp in 1584–5, who was employed by Leicester in the Netherlands in 1586–7 and then in England in 1588.

⁷³⁵ Probably Robert, for Sir Philip did not return to Flushing until 11 February (CA, Vinrent MS 216, p. 21).

⁷³⁶ Leicester returned to the Hague from Leiden on 20 January and took the oath as governor-general on the 25th.

⁷³⁷ William Clarke (d. c.1587), MP, judge-martial in the Netherlands in 1586–7. This entry suggests that Clarke, if not the author, was certainly the compiler of the Lawes and ordinances set downe by Robert, Earle of Leicester in the Lowe Countries (STC 7288). It was printed by Thomas Basson in Leiden, see his petition, BL, Cotton MS Titus B VII, fo. 96.

⁷³⁸ Edmund Carey, to recruit a voluntary company, see Index of Servants. As noted above, Leicester remained at the Hague throughout February.

⁷³⁹ This date must be wrong, for Shirley was at Court by Saturday, 5 March (Leic. Corres., 160Google Scholar, to Leicester, 7 March). He had been sent to appease the Queen's anger over Leicester's acceptance of the governor-generalship, see also his further letters of 14 and 21 March (ibid., 171–6, 180–3).

⁷⁴⁰ This was during Leicester's visit to Amersfoort on 18–20 April, see n. 682 above.

⁷⁴¹ On this occasion Leicester was at Amersfoort en route from Utrecht to Arnhem (see n. 682). The Prince Elector was Gebhard Truchsess, the protestant Archbishop of Cologne, who had been driven into exile in the Netherlands following the war for Cologne in 1583.