SIR HENRY LEE (15331611): ELIZABETHAN COURTIER
For my grandsons, who while growing up always knew far more about
tilting and tournaments than was necessary!
Sir Henry Lee (15331611): Elizabethan Courtier
SUE SIMPSON
University of Southampton, UK
First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Simpson, Sue, 1945
Sir Henry Lee (15331611) : Elizabethan courtier / by Sue Simpson.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-3739-6 (hardcover) 1. Lee, Henry, 15331611. 2. Great Britain Court and courtiers History 16th century Biography. 3. Armorers Great Britain Biography. 4. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 15331603 Friends and associates. I. Title.
DA358.L4S56 2014
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2014013558
ISBN 9781472437396 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315609201 (ebk)
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
I should like to express my thanks to Viscount de Lisle and Dudley for permission to use the Penshurst Papers, and acknowledge the interest and assistance I have received from the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, and the Ditchley Foundation, especially for the use of their illustrations.
My thanks also go to the staff of the many libraries and record offices I have been privileged to use, and especially to Robert Yorke at the College of Arms, London, and to Bridget Clifford at the Royal Armouries Library at the Tower of London. I am particularly grateful to Simon Adams of Strathclyde University for suggesting several sources on Lee which I had not considered. My especial thanks to Paul Everson for allowing me to use his work on Lees garden at Quarrendon.
Every student needs both encouragement and constructive criticism and these I received in abundance from Alastair Duke and Dilys Hill of Southampton University, and also from Rivkah Zim of Kings College, London. My thanks to them for reading some or all of my text, and for listening to my rambling enthusiasms for some of the odder aspects of Sir Henry Lees life. I enjoyed many interesting discussions with Janet Dickinson and Eleanor Quince at Southampton University, as well as the ever-changing membership of the Tudor and Stuart Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Friends among the postgraduate community at Southampton play an important part in any research exercise, and I am grateful for being allowed to try out ideas with this international group. My thanks go especially to fellow-postgraduates Tehmina Goskar and Tobias Metzler for their technical assistance.
Far and away my greatest debt of gratitude is to my supervisor, George Bernard, who patiently read my first stumbling attempts and remained convinced that something readable would eventually emerge. He is a tower of strength for Tudor history and an inspiration to any would-be historian.
Finally, this is for my father, who encouraged me from the beginning, and for John, my husband, who saw it through to the end.
List of Abbreviations
All terms have been given in full at their first appearance in the text.
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APC | Acts of the Privy Council |
BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
BL | British Library |
Bodl. | Bodleian Library |
CA | College of Arms |
CBS | Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies |
Cecil MS | Cecil Manuscripts, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire |
CKS | Centre for Kentish Studies |
CPR | Calendar of Patent Rolls |
CSP Border | Calendar of State Papers Border |
CSP Colonial | Calendar of State Papers Colonial Series, East Indies, China and Japan, 15131616 |
CSP Foreign | Calendar of State Papers Foreign series of the reign of Elizabeth |
CSP Irish | Calendar of State Papers Irish |
CSP Scotland | Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots |
CSP Spanish | Calendar of letters and State Papers relating to English affairs preserved principally in the archives of Simancas Spanish |
CSP Venetian | Calendar of State Papers Venetian |
CSPD | Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, preserved in Her Majestys Public Record Office, Edward IV, Mary I, Elizabeth, James I |
Dasent, APC | Acts of the Privy Council of England, ed. John Roche Dasent |
DHM | Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
EHR | English Historical Review |
GL | Guildhall Library |
HJ | The Historical Journal |
HMC de Lisle and Dudley | Her Majestys Commission, Manuscripts of the deLisle and Dudley families |
HMC Hastings | Her Majestys Commission, Manuscripts of the Hastings Family |
HMC Salis. | A Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. The Marquess of Salisbury, KG. Preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire |
Holinshed, Chronicles | Holinsheds Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1577), RSTC 1358, all vols |
1 Jac I Trinity | Trinity Term [JuneJuly 1603] in the first year of James 1s Reign (1603). |
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