28. Lady Elizabeth
Explanatory Notes
254 Doctor Sandys: Doctor Edwin Sandys.
Doctor Parker: Doctor Matthew Parker, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was deprived of his offices and lived in obscurity during the reign of Mary I; later appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
convenient . . . scripture: Joshua 1: 16 – 18 concerns the Israelites' declaration of allegiance to Joshua following the death of Moses.
255 ready booted: he was dressed and ready to go.
John Gates: a supporter who was executed with John Dudley.
256 fet: fetch.
Regent House: a meeting place for governing body of the University of Cambridge.
257 Nun's Bower: a prison chamber.
258 Duke of Norfolk: Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.
261 stake-fellow: one who has been condemned to die by being burnt alive as a companion to another victim.
263 Doctor Cox: Doctor Richard Cox, former tutor of Edward VI and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He went into exile after imprisonment at Marshalsea Prison.
kenning: derived from ken ('area within sight'), this word refers to the furthest distance visible at sea (i.e., approximately 20 miles).
Cleve: also known as Kleve or Cleveland, the Duchy of Cleves was a Dutch-speaking principality in the Rhineland that offered a haven to English Protestant exiles.
flix: a flux (i.e., dysentery).
264 Master Bullinger: Heinrich Bullinger.
the same day that Queen Elizabeth was crowned: 15 January 1559.
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265 outscape: an escape.
266 Lord Courtenay: Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire. Having been rejected as a suitor to Mary I, he hoped to marry Lady Elizabeth and to make her queen.
Sir Richard Southwell: a Privy Councillor, Member of Parliament, and diplomat.
Sir Edward Hastings: a soldier and key supporter of Mary I before and during her reign.
Sir Thomas Cornwallis: a Privy Councillor and Member of Parliament.
unprovided: unprepared.
267 Doctor Owen and Doctor Wendy: Doctor George Owen and Doctor Thomas Wendy were royal physicians and Members of Parliament.