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Hace 4 días · Risk of death came dangerously close in 1564 when Elizabeth caught smallpox; when she was most at risk, she named Robert Dudley as Lord Protector in the event of her death. After her recovery, she appointed Dudley to the Privy Council and created him Earl of Leicester, in the hope that he would marry Mary, Queen of Scots.
Hace 3 días · Racine effectively demonstrates how the invocation of the Lord Protector could expose the issues and fault-lines between conservatives and liberals in a world of which he, of course, knew nothing. As a whole and despite its undoubted merits, the volume remains an uncomfortable mixture.
Hace 4 días · "But in the third year of Edward VI.," says Stow, "the church for the most part, to wit, the body and side aisles, with the great bell-tower (a most curious piece of workmanship, graven, gilt, and inameled, to the great beautifying of the city, and passing all other that I have seen), was under mined and blown up with gunpowder; the stone thereof was employed in building of the Lord Protector ...
Hace 5 días · To Dudley and Ward's libel: 1. He had known Lord Dudley for 10 years, who had been styled Baron of Dudley Castle 'and reputed in the country to be an honourable person'.
Hace 5 días · John de Sutton, who was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dudley or Sutton de Dudley in 1341–2, died in 1359, and his widow Isabel under the settlement of 1340 continued to hold the castle and vill of Dudley until her death in 1397, when it passed to her great-grandson, another John de Sutton.
Hace 4 días · Within a mile of Calais, she was received by the earl of Southampton, Lord Admiral, with the lord William Howard, Sir Francis Brian, the lord Grey of Wilton, lord Hastings, lord Clifford, lord Herbert, lord Tailbush, Sir Thomas Seymour, Sir Henry Knyvett, Mr. Gregory Cromwell, with "xxiiij" gentlemen in coats of satin damask and velvet, besides the said lords, who wore three collars of cloth ...
Hace 5 días · Kat Ashley is shown chasing Lord Seymour out of the bedroom after having reprimanded him that his bare-legged presence was 'such an unseemly sight in a Maiden's Chamber' (p. 2). With this anecdote, Whitelock sketches the importance of the female companion both as a bodyguard and protector of the princess's reputation, but also as a political force.
