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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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said to belong to her husband, but may have been connected with the queen's wardrobe. The
Venetian ambassador
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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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She was rumored to have a relationship with Robert Cecil (d. 1612), and in the anonymous poem
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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 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
497:'O Ladies, ladies howle & cry', Early Stuart Libels
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Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography
336:. Walsingham was made a lady of the Privy Chamber, and
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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
139:; 1568–1624) was an English courtier. She served as
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684:Calendar State Papers Domestic: Addenda: 1580-1625
436:On 20 August 1613 Anne of Denmark was received at
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749:Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
194:, Henry VIII's queen, and his sisters included
887:(Philadelphia, 2001), pp. 158-9: Allen Hinds,
411:amounted to £614. One of her servants died at
466:noted she suffered from serious headaches or
249:. She signed an inventory of the wardrobe of
182:and Margaret Parker, daughter of the heir to
175:. Her mother died five days after her birth.
747:Ann Rosalind Jones & Peter Stallybrass,
904:, 2nd series vol. 3 (London, 1827), p. 247.
762:Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
697:Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
363:, Anne of Denmark asked Walsingham and the
564:, vol. 3 (London, 1823), pp. 15-16, 591-3.
686:(London, 1872), p. 427, TNA SP15/35 f.61.
652:Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writings
889:Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1615-1617
775:Calendar State Papers James I: 1603-1610
710:Calendar State Papers James I: 1603-1610
601:Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607
340:noted that she was a great favourite of
304:Mistress of the Robes to Anne of Denmark
264:, the total value of his gift was £200.
245:She served as Lady of the Bedchamber to
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868:Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life
831:, vol. 20 (London, 1968), pp. 128, 149.
628:, vol. 15 (London, 1930), pp. 105, 112.
603:, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 27 no. 40.
415:in October 1606 during a plague scare.
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586:Eleri Lynn, 'The Bacton Altar Cloth',
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668:Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd
641:, vol. 3 (London, 1838), pp. 11-12.
575:Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlocked
479:Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet:
241:Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth
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391:The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses
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393:(January 1604), and Periphere in
334:Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford
870:(Cornell, 2002), p. 101 quoting
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819:, vol. 2 (London, 1936), p. 439.
639:Illustrations of British History
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444:, and the four maids of honour.
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186:. John Shelton's mother was
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178:Her father was a son of
55:St Nicholas, Chislehurst
983:Mistresses of the Robes
872:Middlesex Court Records
806:(London, 1865), p. 296.
788:Issues of the Exchequer
777:(London, 1857), p. 192.
725:(Oxford, 1994), p. 197.
712:(London, 1857), p. 113.
680:Mary Anne Everett Green
538:(London, 1879), p. 228.
396:The Masque of Blackness
317:. A Venetian diplomat,
213:Audrey Shelton married
188:Anne Shelton née Boleyn
670:(Maney, 1988), p. 151.
626:HMC Salisbury Hatfield
258:Earl of Northumberland
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155:from 1603 until 1619.
145:Elizabeth I of England
141:Lady of the Bedchamber
109:Lady of the Bedchamber
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315:Countess of Worcester
298:Bacton, Herefordshire
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215:Sir Thomas Walsingham
149:Mistress of the Robes
117:Mistress of the Robes
988:Court of Elizabeth I
511:Francis Blomefield,
462:The court physician
800:Fanny Bury Palliser
699:, 26 (2013), p. 30.
464:Théodore de Mayerne
365:Countess of Suffolk
311:Countess of Kildare
33:Lady Audrey Shelton
786:Frederick Madden,
721:Sara Jayne Steen,
650:Jessica L. Malay,
383:William Cookesbury
323:Berwick-upon-Tweed
290:"Rainbow" portrait
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219:Francis Walsingham
208:Sir John Scudamore
184:Henry, Lord Morley
159:Family connections
998:Walsingham family
968:English courtiers
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453:Antonio Foscarini
271:entertainment at
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169:William Woodhouse
130:Audrey Walsingham
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