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11. SP 12/231/56.
12. Conyers Read (1925) Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen
Elizabeth, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press), vol. 1, p. 428.
13. Walsingham to Burghley, 24 April 1585, BL Harley MS 6993, f. 78r.
14. The National Archives, PROB 11/75, sig. 33.
15. ‘They note him to have had certain curiosities, and secret wayes of intelli-
gence above the rest’: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations
on the Late Queen Elizabeth, Her Times and Favorits (Wing/N250; [London]
1641), p. 20. See also the biography of Walsingham by Simon Adams,
Alan Bryson, and Mitchell Leimon in (2004) Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, 60 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. 57, pp. 148–9.
16. SP 12/232/12, printed in Lawrence Stone (1956) An Elizabethan: Sir Horatio
Palavicino (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 323–4, and discussed, p. 248;
Read, Walsingham, vol. 2, p. 370.
17. Walsingham’s aphorism is that ‘there is lesse daynger in fearinge to myche
then to lyttle’: Walsingham to Sir William Cecil, 20 December 1568, SP
12/48/61.
18. Read, Walsingham, vol. 2, p. 371. See also Stone, Palavicino, p. 233. Signet
Office docquet book, 1585–March 1597, The National Archives, SO 3/1;
Thomas Lake’s paper of entries in the Signet book, SP 12/229/49.
19. Walsingham to Phelippes, 1 May 1589, SP 12/224/1.
20. SP 15/30/90.
21. SP 15/31/169.
22. SP 12/213/102.
23. Gilbert Gifford to John Gifford, 1/11 August 1588, SP 12/214/10.
24. J. Leslie Hotson (1925) The Death of Christopher Marlowe (New York: The
Nonesuch Press); Eugénie de Kalb (1933) ‘Robert Poley’s Movements as a
Messenger of the Court, 1588 to 1601’, Review of English Studies, 9, 13–18,
quotation at p. 17. de Kalb worked from the declared accounts of the Pipe
Office, The National Archives, E351/542–543.
25. Gerard Gifford to ‘Raphe husbande’ [Thomas Phelippes], SP 12/208/71.
26. Pollen and MacMahon, Venerable Philip Howard, pp. 67–8.
27. ‘Cornelys’ [Gilbert Gifford] to Phelippes, 7 July 1586, SP 53/18/37; ‘Cornelys’
to Walsingham, 11 July 1586, SP 53/18/40; see also Phelippes’ headings for
a letter to Thomas Morgan, 24 May [1586], SP 12/170/89. ‘John Foxley’
[Edward Gratley], [8/18] June 1586, SP 15/29/118.
28. SP 106/2, f. 73r; Ethel Seaton (1931) ‘Robert Poley’s Cipher’, Review of English
Studies, 7, 137.
29. What follows is a first tentative list of Robert Barnard’s reports: [?1581],
SP 12/151/23; to [Walsingham, ?Nov. 1581], SP 12/155/96; to Walsingham,
5 January 1582, SP 12/147/2; to Walsingham, 19 April 1582, SP 12/153/14;
to [Walsingham] 5 May 1582, SP 12/153/38; to Charles Sledd, 10 May 1582,
SP 12/153/41; to [Walsingham] 19 May 1582, SP 12/153/54; to [Walsingham]
29 May 1582, SP 12/153/68; to [Walsingham] 4 July, 1582, SP 12/154/47; to
Walsingham, London, 19 July 1582, SP 12/154/62; n.d., BL Additional MS
48023, ff. 110v–111r. See also Read, Walsingham, vol. 2, pp. 323–5.
30. Francis Mylles to Walsingham, 24 July 1586, SP 53/18/72. See, for example,
Maliverey Catilyn to Walsingham, 30 December 1586, BL Harley MS 286,
ff. 97r–98v, signed II but endorsed I.
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