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Scotland, 20, 113, 167
agents working in, 14, 49
Scott, Andrew, 50
Scudamore, Lady Mary, 110
influence with Queen Elizabeth,
110–11
secrecy
and group identity, 145–7, 151
language and theory, 139–40
as political and social theory,
139–54
and social bonding, 143–4, 148–50,
151, 167
Secretary of State, 59, 121, 123, 128
office of, 23, 47–9, 66
papers of, 48, 53
secretaries, 6, 120, 124, 161, 163
de Serres, Jean, 88, 91–3
theory of language, 92
Shakespeare, William, 128, 133
Shrewsbury, Earl of, 110, 111
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of,
101, 104, 111
Mary, Queen of Scots, keeper of, 101
news network of, 101
Sidney, Lady Mary, 109
Sidney, Sir Philip, 82–100 passim
ambassadorial poetics of, 93, 82–100
passim
Astrophil and Stella, 96
Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, 84,
94–6
Defence of Poesy, 83, 84, 92–3
diplomatic career, frustrations of,
85–6, 92, 96
Languet, Hugo, relationship with, 86
patronage and Leicester/Sidney
circle, 86–7
relationship with Gentili,
background to, 85–8
Sloane, Sir Hans, 17
Socrates, 87
Sorbonne, the, 35
South Sea Company, 19
Southwell, Father Robert, 58, 141, 143
sovereign states, emergent system of,
89
Spain, 113, 140, 173, 182
agents working in, 49
alliance against, 65–6, 69
ambassadors to, 33
English policy towards, 105
the Inquisition, 85
and Portugal, 15–17, 22
Spanish Armada, 48
Spanish embassy in London, 164
Spencer, Gabriel, 138
Spencer, Sir Robert, 103
spies, 36, 46–62, 138–54 passim, 177
dangers associated with, 141
definition, 47, 78
double-agents, 20, 24, 52, 54, 57,
138–9, 149, 175
entrapment, 58
French, 21, 23, 24
Homen, André, Portuguese spy, 15
Italian agents, of Wotton, 164
and maps, 16, 18, 23–4
motivations of, 55, 57, 78
secret missions, 19
Storff, Colonel Paul August de,
French spy, 24
see also information gathering and
information and intelligence
Stafford, Lady Dorothy, 110
Standen, Sir Anthony, 48
Stanley, Alice, 103
Stanley, Sir William, 53
Starkey, Thomas, 32, 36
Strasbourg, 33, 133
Stuart, Lady Henrietta, 150
Stucely, Sir Thomas, soldier and exile,
113
Suárez, Francisco, 83
Suffolk, Katherine, Duchess of, 104
Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of, 110,
123
Sweden, King of, 176, 184
Swerder, William, scholar and agent,
30–45, passim
family, 31
patronage of, 38–40
wife and servants, 34
Talbot, Anne, 108
Talbot, Mary and Gilbert, 110
Tassin, Christophe, 23
Tasso, Torquato, 82, 120
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