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In the wake of the 1588 destruction of the Spanish Armada, English Catholics launched an ingenious counterespionage effort to undermine the Tudor government's anti-Catholic machinations. This Jesuit-connected network secretly transmitted intelligence to Brussels, Antwerp, Madrid and Rome. Its central figure was William Sterrell, a brilliant Oxford philosopher. Sterrell moved at the highest levels of government, working for the ill-fated Earl of Essex and for the powerful 4th Earl of Worcester, secret sponsor of the Jesuits. This is the story of Sterrell's secret network--undetected for 400 years--brought to life in vivid detail, based on close examination of hundreds of original letters and documents never before transcribed or published.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The Persons-Campion Jesuit Mission of 1580-1581
2. Tainted in Blood
3. A Wolf by the Ears
4. The MP from Morpeth: Gentleman Pensioner and Assassin
5. Persecution of Catholic Gentry
6. Aboard the Ambassador's Boat
7. Mary Stewart and the Theatre of the World
8. The Spanish Armada and English Catholics
9. The Essex, Phelippes and Bacon Intelligence Initiative
10. In Spanish Lands: The Bisley-Moody Plot
11. The Parliament of 1593: Sterrell and Marlowe
12. Who Can Protect the Queen? A Rivalry over Assassins
13. The General Factor and Arbella Stewart
14. Co-opting the Privy Council
15. Trustworthy Men at the Fountainhead in the Council
16. The Network at Work: Tricks of Strong Imagination
17. Charles Paget, Meet Monsieur Boulant
18. Treaty Negotiations and Burgundian Jewels
19. Essex's Dismal Tumult
20. The War between the Priests
21. Scenes of a Dying Queen
22. Transitions and Treasons, 1603
23. From Intelligence to Entertainment
24. Measure for Measure: A Sermon to a King
25. Cecil's Interrogations: Phelippes's Lies and Sterrell's Equivocations
26. A Stir in Wales—The Whitsun Commotion, 1605
27. The Gunpowder Treason
28. Conclusion: The State of the English Counter-Reformation after Gunpowder
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
