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Abbot
A novel by Sir W. Scott, published 1820, a sequel to The Monastery. Set around the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven, it largely redeemed the failure of The Monastery. It is remembered ...
Acts of Succession
1534, 1536, 1543.Henry VIII used statutes to make the adjustments to the succession that his complicated matrimonial history necessitated. The first Act (25 Hen. VIII c. 22) declared Mary ...
Acts of Uniformity
A series of English laws intended to secure the legal and doctrinal basis of the Anglican Communion. The first (1549) made the Book of Common Prayer compulsory in church services, with severe ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1837–1909)Poet and critic, born into an old Northumbrian family. He spent much of his childhood in the Isle of Wight, where he acquired a lasting love of the sea ...
Babington plot
(1586)A conspiracy to coordinate a Spanish invasion of England with a rising of English Catholics, to assassinate Elizabeth I, and to replace her on the throne with Mary, Queen of Scots. Anthony ...
battle of Pinkie Cleugh
1547.One of the first decisions taken by Somerset when he became protector for Edward VI in 1547 was to settle the long‐running war against Scotland with a decisive blow. The Scots had rejected ...
Casket Letters
The contents of a small silver casket, uncovered in 1567, allegedly incriminating Mary Stuart in the murder of her second husband Lord Darnley. Surviving copies suggest that, while not outright ...
Castelnau, Michel de, Sieur de la Mauvissière
(1520–91),French soldier and diplomat. He was born into a noble family in Touraine and as a young man fought in the Wars of Italy. He became a diplomat, in ...
Château de Chenonceaux
The chateau was built by Thomas Bohier between 1513 and 1521. The site is the river Cher, which the chateau spans. After the death of Bohier and his widow the ...
coinage
The WestByzantiumThe WestByzantiumInstrument of an exchange economy, as standard of values and principal means of payment, Money was not in exclusive use, everywhere and always, in the ...
Cure
Family of English sculptors and stonemasons of Netherlandish origin. The founder, William I (d 1579), moved to England in about 1540 to work on Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace and became ...
David Beaton
(1494?–1546), archbishop of Saint Andrews (1539–1546), abbot of Arbroath (1524), bishop of Mirepoix (1537), cardinal (1538), and papal legate a Latere (1544) who led the Scottish ecclesiastical ...
David Rizzio
(1533–66)Italian-born secretary and adviser to Mary, Queen of Scots. He entered service at court in 1561 and by 1564 he had become her Secretary: he possibly arranged her marriage to his friend ...
Duessa
In Spenser's Faerie Queene, the daughter of Deceit and Shame, Falsehood in general, in Bk I signifies in particular the Roman Catholic Church, and in Bk V. ix, Mary Queen of Scots.
duke of Clarence, Albert Victor Christian Edward
(1864–92).Clarence was the first son of Edward, prince of Wales. He seems to have been congenitally handicapped: at the age of 5 he was described as ‘languid and listless’. At 13 he went to Dartmouth ...
Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley
(c. 1532–88).Son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, Dudley became one of Elizabeth I's most prominent courtiers. Until his death in 1588, he was master of the queen's horse and a privy ...
Earl of Murray, James Stewart
(c.1531–1570),Regent of Scotland. An illegitimate son of James V, James Stewart was half-brother to Mary, Queen of Scots, whose marriage to the future Francis II he helped to negotiate ...
Edinburgh castle
Stands on Castle Rock dominating the city of Edinburgh and is approached across the Esplanade, the site of the annual military tattoo. It houses the crown jewels (Honours) of Scotland, and occupies a ...
Egmont
(1522–68)Flemish statesman and soldier. He was made statholder (governor) of Flanders and Artois in 1559. Although he was a member of Philip II of Spain's regency council, he opposed his sovereign's ...
