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Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada crisis. It provides a fresh social, political and foreign policy insight from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time. Much of the book is focused on the Anglo-Scottish geo-political relationship during the decade of 1580-1590, with its machinations and bizarre background stories. Prior to Ashby's ambassadorial appointment, he served as a senior 'intelligencer' for Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster.
Contents
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue - 'the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors'
Part One - Early Life
Chapter I - Education
Chapter II - Exile
Chapter III - Return to an unhappy land
Part Two - On Her Majesty's Service
Chapter IV - Walsingham's Intelligencer
Chapter V - The Queen's vacillation
Chapter VI - Low Countries reconnaissance operation
Chapter VII - Purgatory in the Low Countries
Chapter VIII - Brigands on the Rhine
Part Three - Scotland
Chapter IX - Anglo-Scottish animosity
Chapter X - Walsingham's failed diplomatic mission
Chapter XI - Universal miscontent in the country
Chapter XII - The Armada cometh
Chapter XIII - Ashby's ambassadorship to Scotland
Chapter XIV - The approach of the Spaniards causes Ashby to make offers
to the King
Chapter XV - A necessary play of penitence
Chapter XVI - '... the great ship was blown in the air'
Chapter XVII - Ashby reveals to James a plot against him by his own lairds
Chapter XVIII - The lairds' open insurrection
Chapter XIX - Fowler's defamation of Ashby
Chapter XX - Ashby tarries in Edinburgh while the King seeks his bride
Chapter XXI - Vindication
Chapter XXII - A last plot foiled before death's gloomy shade
Appendix I - Sir Robert Naunton
Appendix II - Dramatis Personae
Bibliography
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