Table of Contents

Letter from George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 20 February 1596
Death of Lord Hunsdon, 23 July 1596
Edward Monings, The Landgrave of Hessen his princelie receiving of her Majesties Embassador, 16 August - 7 October 1596
The ceremony of Henri IV, King of France, being invested with the Garter, 19 August - 29 October 1596
Rates of servants, labourers, & hierers wages, appointed at the General Session for the Peace, within the City of Chester, 1596
Letter from George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 24 November 1596
Letter from George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 26 April 1597
Death of William Brooke, Lord Cobham, 6 March 1597
The order of receiving Queen Elizabeth in the College Church of Westminster the first day of parliament, 13 October 1597
The Queen's conference with the Polish ambassador, 25 July 1597
The Queen's conference with the Danish ambassador, September 1597
Letter from the Queen to Lady Norris, 22 September 1597
The Queen at Westminster, 14 November 1597
Letter from the Middle Temple to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1598
Death and funeral of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, August 1598
Julius Caesar's account of the Queen's visit to Mitcham, 12 - 13 September 1598
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 17 September 1598
Extracts from Sir John Harington's Notes and Observations, October 1598
Letter from John Stanhope to Robert Cecil, 3 November 1598
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 22 November 1598
The Earl of Essex's departure for Ireland, 27 March 1599
Thomas Churchyard, The Fortunate Farewell to the Earl of Essex
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 1 August 1599
The Queen at a christening, 12 August 1599
The Queen's visit to Sir Francis Carew at Beddington, Surrey, August 1599
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 'A Dialogue Betweene Two Shepheards, Thenot, and Piers, in Praise of Astrea', August 1599
Letter from the Earl of Essex to the Queen, 30 August 1599
Poem by the Earl of Essex, circa 1599-1601
Essex's return from Ireland, 28 September 1599
Essex presents himself to the Queen, 28 September 1599
Letter from Michael Stanhope to Robert Cecil, November 1599
The Queen at Westminster, 13 November 1599
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 15 November 1599
Jousts and triumphs in London, 17 November 1599
Speeches in Star Chamber by members of the Privy Council, 29 November 1599
Extracts from Sir John Harrington's Notes and Remembraunces, circa 1599-1600
Edmund Bolton, 'A Canzon Pastorall in Honour of her Majestie'
Michael Drayton, 'Rowland's Song in Praise of the Fairest Beta'
The Earl of Essex returns to Essex House
Letter from Francis Bacon to the Queen, 12 March 1600
'Ode: Of Cynthia', May 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 8 June 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Cecil, 11 June 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Cecil, 15 June 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 23 June 1600
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 24 June 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Cecil, 27 July 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 27 July 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 8 August 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 12 August 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 15 August 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 1 September 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 12 September 1600
The Queen at Chelsea and Westminster, 13 November 1600
Ambassador from the Emperor of Russia, September - October 1600
Ambassador from the King of Barbary, August - November 1600
The Earl of Cumberland's speech to the Queen on Accession Day, 17 November 1600
Letter from Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 28 December 1600
Foundation of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Croydon
Extracts from Richard Vennard, The Right Way to Heaven (1601)
Letter from Lady Stafford to the Countess Dowager of Shrewsbury, 13 January 1601
The Russian ambassadors in London, 3 February 1601
The Earl of Essex's apprehension, arraignment, and execution, 8 - 25 February 1601
Letter from Robert Cecil to Ralph Winwood, 7 March 1601
Letter from the Queen to George Carew, June 1601
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 13 August 1601
The Duc de Biron arrives in London, 5 September 1601
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 19 September 1601
Letter from the Queen to Lord Mountjoy, 4 October 1601
Letter from the Queen to Lord Mountjoy, 12 January 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 26 April 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 8 May 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 8 June 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 27 June 1602
Letter from the Queen to Lord Mountjoy, 15 July 1602
The Queen's Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July - 2 August 1602
Letter from Sir Thomas Edmonds to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 3 August 1602
Letter from Sir Thomas Edmonds to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1 September 1602
Letter from the Queen to Lord Mountjoy, 2 September 1602
Letter from William Browne to the Earl of Shrewbsury, 18 September 1602
Letter from the Earl of Worcester to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 19 September 1602
Letter from Fulke Greville to the Countess of Shrewsbury, 23 September 1602
Letter from Robert Cecil to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 25 September 1602
Letter from Robert Cecil to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 2 October 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 15 October 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 19 November 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 4 December 1602
The Queen at Cecil House, 6 December 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 6 December 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 23 December 1602
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 27 January 1603
Letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 30 March 1603
Sir Robert Carey's account of the Queen's last sickness and death
The death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth, 1603
Cambridge and Oxford verses on the death of Queen Elizabeth, 1603
Francis Bacon, The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (1651)
Edmund Bohun, The Character of Queen Elizabeth (1693).

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.