Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Contents
List of illustrations
List of maps
Abbreviations and conventions
General Introduction
The childhood and early years of Princess Elizabeth, 1533-53
Articles relating to the reign and execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1553-54
Articles relating to Princess Elizabeth, circa 1555-58
Tournament at Westminster, 1558
The coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth, 14 January 1559
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
A tournament and Queen Elizabeth's first Parliament, January - February 1559
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, April - July 1559
Charges for dinners, 1 - 3 July 1559
Payments for setting fourth of xii men to the Queenes Majestie hyr muster
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, July - December 1559
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, January - April 1560
Queen Elizabeth's grant about singing men at Windsor, 8 March 1560
Letter from the Lord Admiral to William Cecil, 13 July 1560
The Queen's progress, July - September 1560
Letter from Francis Alen to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 3 September 1560
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, February - July 1561
The Progress into Essex, Suffolk, and Hertfordshire, July - September 1561
Proclamation concerning married clergy, 9 August 1561
The Duke of Norfolk's feast at Norwich, 1561
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, September - November 1561
Grand Christmas at the Inner Temple, December 1561 - January 1562
New Year's gift roll, 1 January 1562
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, January - February 1562
Letter from the Queen to Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, 16 June 1562
The Queen's second Parliament, January 1563
The Queen at Northampton, 1563
Verses addressed to the Queen at Windsor by Eton scholars, 19 September 1563
Plague in London, 1562 - 63
Patents awarded to William Humphrey and Christopher Shutz, 1563
Draft proclamation relating to persons making portraits of the Queen, 6 December 1563
Extract from Holinshed's Chronicles, April 1564
Extracts from Burghley's memoranda, 7 June - 27 July 1564
Queen Elizabeth at the University of Cambridge, 5 - 10 August 1564
Robert Dudley's creation as Earl of Leicester, 29 September 1564
Extract from Holinshed, Chronicles, 2 October 1564
Extract from the diary of William Cecil, August 1565
Visit of Christopher, Margrave of Baden-Baden, September 1565
Marriage of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and Anne Russell, 11 November 1565
Letter from Francis Alen to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 December 1565
Christmas at Westminster, December 1565
Extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, January - April 1566
Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1 April 1566
Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, June - August 1566
Queen Elizabeth at Coventry and Kenilworth, 17 - 22 August 1566
The Queen at Kenilworth, 19 - 22 August 1566
Queen Elizabeth's visit to the University of Oxford, 31 August - 6 September 1566
Queen Elizabeth in Rycot, 6 September 1566
Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, August - September 1567
Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, July - August 1568
Letter from Lord Herries to Queen Elizabeth, 19 August 1568
Letter from William Cecil to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 9 April 1569
Letter from Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, to the Parson of Downham, 12 July 1569
Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, 27 July - 3 August 1569
The proposed marriage of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Duke of Norfolk, August-September 1569
The Mayor of Coventry removed from office, 8 September 1569
Letter from the Queen to the Aldermen and Recorder of Coventry, 8 September 1569
Letter from the Queen to the Earl of Huntingdon, 22 September 1569
Warrant for pulling down the Earl of Northumberland's hatchments at Windsor, 26 November 1569
Letter from the Queen to Lord Hunsdon, 26 February 1570
Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, April - August 1570
Letter to the Countess of Shrewsbury, 31 August 1570
Celebrations for the safety of the Queen and realm, 17 November 1570
Extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, January - June 1571
The challenge of the four knights errant, May 1571
The Queen's progress, August - September 1571
The Queen's reception at Saffron Walden, 27 August 1571
The Queen at Theobalds, 22 September 1571
Extracts from Stow and Howes, The Annales, 9 November 1571
The Queen's health, December 1571 - March 1572

About the Author

Dr. Jayne Elisabeth Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Literature, Aberystwyth University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, where she spent four years as AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow on the John Nichols Project. She is co-editor of The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007),
and has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean masques, early modern women's receipt books, and alchemy in early modern literature. She is currently working on a book-length study of the relationship
between housewifery and natural philosophy in early modern literature.

Dr. Elizabeth Clarke is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. She is author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997) and has just finished a study in versions of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. She was director of the Perdita Project for early modern women's manuscripts and is currently directing a British Academy-funded project on the life-writing of Elizabeth Isham (1608-1654).
Dr. Elizabeth Goldring was a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and is now an Associate Fellow of both the Centre and Warwick's History of Art Department. She is co-editor of two essay collections - The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) - and associate general editor of
Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). Other recent publications include articles in The British Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, and ELR: English Literary Renaissance.
She was Consultant to English Heritage for the exhibition 'Queen and Castle: Robert Dudley's Kenilworth', which opened in 2006.