Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, seventh Earl of, 6, 43, 106, 127, 157, 164, 228, 283, 286, 308; his marriage, 36, 44–5; letters written by, 99, 117, 171, 197, 199, 202, 215, 254, 314, 346; his varied duties, 99, 223; letters written to, 109, 299; and his first child, 111; and the priests’ accusations against his father, 114–15, 117–18; Court chit-chat by, 171 _et sqq._; entertains Leicester at Buxton, 180; his illness, 195; and his uncongenial home, 197 _et sqq._; dissension with his father, 198 _et sqq._; and his parents’ quarrels, 201 _et sqq._, 254 _et sqq._; and the Shrewsbury tenantry, 215 _et sqq._; and Elizabeth’s “deshabille,” 221–2; champions his stepmother, Lady Shrewsbury, 251–2; death of his son, 259; his monetary difficulties, 299, 348; his love for his stepmother, 314–15; succeeds his father, 324–5, 327; his portrait at Hardwick Hall, 324; quarrels with his brother Edward, 326; entertains the King, 340–1; and Lady Arabella Stuart, 342; quarrels with his stepmother, 343
Shrewsbury, John Talbot, first Earl of, 34–5
Shrewsbury, Mary, Countess of, 6, 11, 157, 252, 299, 314, 324, 337, 346, 348
Stanhope, Sir Thomas, 204, 206, 252–3, 327
Stuart, Esmé, Lord d’Aubigny, 220, 240, 339
Stuart, Lady Arabella, 213, 312–13, 315, 348, 355; her birth, 158–9, 173; her rights, 219, 220; the allowance for, 228, 240, 329 _et sqq._; death of her mother, 234; and her succession to her father’s earldom, 236–7; Mary’s bequest of jewels to, 237–8; appeals to Elizabeth on behalf of, 238–9; Lady Shrewsbury’s ambitions for, 241, 244, 322, 328, 338; proposed alliances for, 276, 332 _et sqq._, 339, 344; her postscript to Lord Burghley, 331; goes to Court, 337 _et sqq._; her betrothal to William Seymour, 339; her arrest, 339, 340; appointed State Governess, 341; summoned to Lady’s Shrewsbury’s bedside 344–5
Talbot, Lord Francis, 45, 99, 162, 224, 228, 230, 259, 280, 325
Talbot, George. _See_ Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury
Talbot, Gilbert. _See_ Seventh Earl of Shrewsbury
Talbot, Henry, Lord, 45, 189, 294–5, 301, 308, 325, 348
Talbot, John. _See_ First Earl of Shrewsbury
Talbot, Mary. _See_ Countess of Shrewsbury
Topcliffe, Richard, 264; his letter to Lady Shrewsbury, 188
Tutbury Castle, 35, 351, 353; Mary Queen of Scots at, 40, 47 _et sqq._, 62 _et sqq._, 76 _et sqq._, 171; Author’s Dramatic Interlude at, 52 _et sqq._
