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or silks", and appointing tailors and embroiderers for the queen's apparel. An account shows that she checked bills from suppliers like the hosier Hugh Griffiths who made silk stockings. In May 1604 she was granted an annual pension of £200 for attending the queen.
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in the lottery with these verses; "This stomacher is full of windows wrought, Yet none through them can look into your thought." Walsingham presented the queen with Egerton's gift of a gown or robe embroidered with rainbows and recited verses about
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In February 1605 she was given £200 towards the expenses of the pregnant queen's "lying down or confinement. In May 1606 she was paid £300 for linen supplied to Anne of Denmark during childbed and for the use of
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In 1603, Walsingham was selected by the Privy Council to join an English entourage sent to meet the new queen Anne of Denmark at the Scottish border, and accompany her to London. Her companions included the
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and two annuities worth £200 each. Anne of Denmark gave her presents of her old clothes, on 6 January 1611 she received a velvet gown with stripes of cloth of gold and gold lace.
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In August 1615 thieves took embroidered cushion and stool covers and sewing silk for embroidery weighing 40 pounds from
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said to belong to her husband, but may have been connected with the queen's wardrobe. The Venetian ambassador
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At first, the queen was reluctant to make Walsingham and Kildare ladies of her Privy Chamber, but preferred
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on 4 December 1615, accompanied only by the Mistress of the Robes and his secretary, Giovanni Rizzardo.
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A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650
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she was accused of having caused his death together with the Countess of Suffolk by infecting him with
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She was appointed guardian and keeper of the robes by Anne of Denmark on 26 July 1603, the day after
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John Pitcher, 'Samuel Daniel's Masque "The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses": Texts and Payments',
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John Pitcher, 'Samuel Daniel's Masque "The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses": Texts and Payments',
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She was rumored to have a relationship with Robert Cecil (d. 1612), and in the anonymous poem
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The "Rainbow" portrait of Queen Elizabeth has been associated with the Harefield Entertainment
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by 200 horsemen. Walsingham was in Berwick by the 27 May. On that day, Anne of Denmark left
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presented Elizabeth with a petticoat supplied by Lady Walsingham and a jewel bought from
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Women on the Renaissance stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court
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Sometimes called "Etheldreda", she was born on 10 June 1568 to Sir Ralph Shelton of
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In April 1608 she was confirmed as Mistress of the Robes with an annual fee of 40
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Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, Jayne Elisabeth Archer,
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John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
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in August 1602, she was assigned in the lottery the prize of a cutwork
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Out of the Shadows: The Life of Lucy, Countess, Countess of Bedford
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supplied feathers for the masque costumes to Audrey Walsingham and
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described his final audience with Anne of Denmark in a gallery at
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An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
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British Library, Stowe MS 557 Inventory of the Royal Wardrobe
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
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Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography
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Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography
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Jemma Field, 'The Wardrobe Goods of Anna of Denmark',
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to take Elizabeth's old clothes from a store in the
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Index

Noble family
Thomas Walsingham
Lady of the Bedchamber
Elizabeth I
Mistress of the Robes
Anne of Denmark
née
Lady of the Bedchamber
Elizabeth I of England
Mistress of the Robes
Anne of Denmark
Shelton, Norfolk
William Woodhouse
Waxham
Sir John Shelton
Henry, Lord Morley
Anne Shelton née Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Madge Shelton
Mary Shelton
Mary Shelton
Sir John Scudamore
Sir Thomas Walsingham
Francis Walsingham
Scadbury Manor
Chislehurst

Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth
Earl of Northumberland

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