Helene Harrison - Elizabethan Rebellions: Conspiracy, Intrigue and Treason

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ELIZABETHAN REBELLIONS

CONSPIRACY, INTRIGUE AND TREASON

HELENE HARRISON

First published in Great Britain in 2023 by

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Copyright Helene Harrison, 2023

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Rebels, enemies and traitors

Seek nothing so greedily as to subdue the realm

Who was to the queen so dangerous an enemy

To remove her Majesty from her Crowne and state

Devilish and wicked-minded subjects

What is allotted to us by destiny cannot be avoided

Deprive the same Elizabeth of her pretended title to the crown

I would like to thank Pen & Sword for giving me this incredible opportunity to publish my work; to everyone there who has been a part of this journey so far and in the future Sarah-Beth Watkins, Claire Hopkins, Laura Hirst, Chris Cocks, and Lucy May for being so supportive and answering all of my questions without judgement. Your guidance has been invaluable, and you made me feel confident in the fact that I could do this, and I am looking forward to hopefully writing much more.

I would also like to thank my family and friends for being so supportive during this whole process. Mum, Dad, and Matilda for just being there for me in your own unique ways. Special thanks to Mark. Only you know what you have done for me over the years and particularly through this lockdown. I definitely could not have done this without you, you amazing human being. Huge thanks to Laura for reading through my drafts and making sure everything made sense. It got to the point where I could not quite tell myself and I definitely owe you a drink or three! Youre a fabulous friend. Also, thanks to Ben, Emily, and Hattie. I could not have done it without you all, keeping me calm and making me believe that I could do it even when I doubted myself. You are all brilliant people and I feel so grateful to have you in my life. A mention also has to go to Leigh and Aaron at the Wheelhouse Coffee Bar for keeping me in tasty treats and plenty of hot chocolate during the writing process.

A special shout out to Gaby, my dissertation supervisor for both my BA and MA History qualifications at Northumbria University. You kept encouraging me through my dissertations when I thought I could not do it, and you gave me lots of new ideas which I am still building on today. Thank you so much for believing in me when I did not believe in myself. In the future I am hoping to build on what we started in my masters dissertation, so thank you for helping me develop those ideas and giving such excellent feedback. You started me on this journey and Im so grateful.

A huge thanks to all you wonderful historians out there who have provided such a wealth of information and opinions for me to get my teeth into. Lockdown has not been easy in a lot of ways but losing myself in Tudor history has helped massively. The works of Anne Somerset, Lisa Hilton, Susan Doran, Stephen Alford, John Cooper, and Antonia Fraser in particular have been a godsend.

Big thanks go to the Wellcome Collection and Creative Commons for images used in this book. These are invaluable resources with plenty of scope and clear instructions for copyright. It stopped my head feeling quite so bamboozled! Thanks also to the Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. All are invaluable resources for historical images and sources. Many I had not realised had Tudor images and sources, but I will certainly be using them in future. Thank you also to The National Archives at Kew for providing documents such as the Babington cipher and the Gallows letter.

Lastly, a big shout-out to the #HistoryGirls community on Instagram. I had so many lovely messages from you all when I first released the news of this book and you have all been following my progress since, boosting my morale when I feel low and pushing me by your own amazingness to be the best that I can be. There are too many of you to list by name but just know that youre all fantastic people with so many interesting things to say and I look forward to continuing to be a part of this growing community.

To all of those aspiring writers out there who think that publication will never happen for you. I never thought in a million years it would happen for me, but it has. It can happen for you too. As someone wise keeps saying to me, kindly keep going.

1. Familia Regia: Henry VIII, Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Jane Seymour by George Vertue / Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, by Jacobus Houbraken, 1738, after Hans Holbein the Younger / Wellcome Collection, Public Domain

3. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession, 1590, Unknown Artist, 16th Century, after Lucas de Heere 15341584 / Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Edward VI as a child, c.1538 by Hans Holbein the Younger / National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection

5. Mary I, Queen of England, Engraving by G. Vertue, 1736, after Hans Eworth / Wellcome Collection, Public Domain

6. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Unknown Artist / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amersfoort

7. Mary, Queen of Scots, Unknown Artist c.161015 / Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

8. Elizabeth I, William Cecil, and Francis Walsingham by W. Faithorne / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

9. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley; from the picture in the Bodleian, Unknown Artist / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)