declares herself a Catholic, 129; 154;
her friends and friendships, 129-131, 143;
attends Queen Mary’s funeral, 132;
goes to Sheen, progress of Hertford’s courtship, 132, 133;
her reception by Elizabeth, 133;
Elizabeth’s fear of her, 133;
her position as Elizabeth’s successor, 134;
life at Elizabeth’s court, 135;
goes again to Sheen, 135;
her mother desires her to marry Hertford, 136, 138;
negotiations for the marriage, 136-139;
attends her mother’s death and funeral, 140-141, 257;
returns to court, 142;
Elizabeth’s pretended affection for her, 142;
receives distressing news of Hertford, 142;
consults Blanche Parry, 145;
Spain supports her claim to the throne, 149-150;
extraordinary plot for her abduction to Spain, 150-151, 220;
her claims also supported by the Low Church party, 151;
is disliked by Elizabeth, 151;
the plot falls through, 153, 154;
gets out of touch with the Spanish embassy, 155;
Cecil supports her claims, 158;
proposal that she should marry a Spanish Prince, 159, 160, 161;
motives for this alliance, 160;
questioned by Cecil about her feelings for Hertford, 162-163;
pledges her troth to Hertford, 163-164;
has a meeting with Hertford, 164;
goes to his house, 165;
her clandestine marriage with Hertford, 166;
adopts the “froze paste,” or matron’s headdress, 167 and footnote;
attends Lady Jane Seymour’s funeral, 168;
secret visits to Hertford, 168-169;
mislays deed of jointure, and confesses her marriage to Mrs. Saintlow, 170;
her nocturnal visit and confession to Robert Dudley, 171;
her marriage revealed to Elizabeth, 171;
sent to the Tower, 172;
Duchess of Somerset blames her for the marriage, 173, 174 f.n., 236;
refuses to confess, 175;
furniture of her apartment in the Tower, 175, 196, 197 and footnote, 176;
her examination and evidence, 178;
gives birth to a son in the Tower, 181;
falls ill, 182;
sentence on her marriage, 183;
renewed agitation in favour of her claims, 184-185;
meeting to endorse her claims, 186;
Cecil’s scheme in favour of, 187-188;
gives birth to a second son, 189;
her case discussed in Parliament, 192-193;
Lord Pembroke and Robert Dudley opposed to her claims, 193;
begs to be removed from the Tower, 194;
removed to Pirgo, 195-196;
her life there, 199;
letter to Cecil, 199 f.n.;
her unhappiness and ill-health, 200, 201, 203;
petitions Elizabeth, 201;
text of petition, 202;
letter to Cecil, 203 and footnote, 204;
her state of poverty, 205 and footnote;
inventory of her effects and of her child’s clothing, 205-206 f.n.;
account of monies paid for her maintenance, and cost thereof, 206 and footnote, 207;
her attendants, 207;
Hales’s book in favour of her claims, 212 and footnote;
removes from Pirgo, consigned to Sir John Wentworth, 216, 219;
agitation in her favour renewed, 221;
her claims supported by the House of Commons, 221, 222, 223;
remains at Gosfield after Wentworth’s death, 225-226;
Elizabeth’s orders to Sir Owen Hopton respecting her, 227-228;
is conveyed to Ipswich, 229;
cost of her stay there and of journey to Cockfield, 229-230;
falls dangerously ill, the Queen’s doctor sent for, 231;
her last hours, last instructions to Hopton, etc., 232-235;
her death, 235;
Elizabeth’s treatment of her, considered, 235-236;
her remains embalmed, 236;
funeral, 236-238;
cost of same, 237-238 f.n.;
and of her keep, 237 f.n.;
her religion, 238 f.n.;
her burial place, 238-239;
tradition respecting her pet dog, 240, 244 f.n., 245, 246, 252, 255, 257, 263, 274, 277, 299, 300.
See also Hertford, Earl of, and Hertford, sons of the Earl of
Grey, Lady Mary, xxviii, 15 f.n., 39, 64, 86, 90, 107, 108, 109, 120, 132;
attends her mother’s funeral, 140, 141, 141, 142, 145, 168, 240, 257;
her birth, 255;
contracted to Lord Grey de Wilton, 255;
betrothal annulled, 256;
her childhood, etc., 256-257;
her small stature and appearance, 257-258;
forms the acquaintance of Thomas Keyes, 259;
her visits to him, 261;
her marriage with Keyes, 262-263;
arrested, examined by Privy Council, 265;
her evidence before the Council, 266-267;
removed to “The Chequers,” 273;
arrival at the Minories, 274;
her goods, 275-276;
her stay at the Minories, etc., 277;
her friendship for Lady Bertie, 277;
goes to the Greshams, 278;
uncomfortable life there, 282;
receives news of Keyes’s death, its effect on her, 283;
her care for his children, 283;
letter to Cecil, 283;
is released, her poverty, 285;
her gifts to Elizabeth, 286;
her death and burial, 287;
her will and bequests, 287-290;
her character, 290;
her library, 290-292, 291 f.n., 299, 300.
See also Keyes, Thomas
Grey of Pirgo, Lord John (Lady Katherine’s uncle), 93, 109, 152, 194 f.n., 195 and footnote, 196, 198;
letter of, to Cecil, 199, 200-201, 202, 203, 204 and footnote, 211;
put under arrest, 215;
falls ill and dies, 215
Guzman de Silva, Don Diego, Spanish Ambassador, 212 f.n., 213, 245
Hales, John, his book in favour of Lady Katherine’s claims, 212 and footnote;
Hampton Court Palace, 4, 121-127
Hawtrey, William, 265, 266, 273, 274, 275
Henry V, xxiii, xxiv f.n., xxvii
Henry VI, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, 9
Henry VII, xxiii, xxv, xxviii, xxix, 9
Henry VIII, his likeness to Charles Brandon, 3-5, 18, 19, 20;
arranges a marriage between Mary Tudor and Louis XII of France, 22, 24, 25;
urges Mary Tudor to marry Louis XII, 27, 28;
letter of Mary Tudor to, 37, 49, 51, 52, 53;
receives Mary at Greenwich, and assists at her marriage with Brandon, 54;
schemes to destroy Brandon, 56;
stands godfather to Mary’s child, and creates him Earl, 58-59, 60, 65, 68, 69;
his piety, 76, 77, 78, 104, 295, 297
Hertford, Edward Seymour, Earl of (husband of Lady Katherine Grey), 102;
his meeting with Lady Katherine, 122;
his courtship of her, 125, 127, 132, 133, 135;
Lady Frances Brandon wishes him to marry Lady Katherine, Mr. Stokes consults with him, 136, 137;
aids Mr. Stokes to prepare a letter for the Queen, but refuses to send it, 138-139;
his weak character, 139;
his alleged courtship of Sir Peter Mewtas’s daughter, 142;
sends Katherine a ring, 143;
gets alarmed about the marriage, is questioned by Cecil, 161-162;
pledges his troth to Lady Katherine, and gives her a ring, 163-164;
his verses on this ring, 163, 164;
sends away his servants, 165;
marries Lady Katherine clandestinely, 166;
is sent to France, 169;
his gay life in Paris, 170;
recalled from France, arrested, and sent to the Tower, 176-177;
his examination, and evidence, 177, 178;
proposal to place him on the Throne, 187;
Cecil’s scheme for a coup d’état in his favour, 188;
is brought before Star Chamber, and fined, 189-190;
Sir John Mason’s opinion of him, 191;
removed to Hanworth, 195;
Newdigate persuades him against Lord John Grey, 204-205;
is asked to pay for Lady Katherine’s maintenance, 208;
appeals to Dudley, 209 and footnote;
makes gloves for the Queen, 210;
his unhappy life at Hanworth, removed to Sir John Mason’s, 217;
writes to Cecil, 218;
Dudley offers him his support, in the matter of the succession, 224;
his imprisonment becomes more severe, 225, 233, 234, 236;
not present at Lady Katherine’s funeral, 237, 239, 240;
takes his M.A. degree, re-marries, is restored to favour, 241;
death of his second wife, 241;
erects monument to her, and to his mother, marries a third time, is sent to the Tower afresh, 242;
released, becomes James I’s ambassador, his death, 243;
his tomb, 243-245;
inscription on it, 243 f.n.
Hertford, sons of the Earl of (Edward and Thomas Seymour), their births, 181, 189, 242;
movement in favour of their claims to the English throne, 186, 221, 242, 245, 248, 249, 250;
attempts to place them on the Scotch throne, 246-248, 247 f.n., 250-251, 252
Hopton, Lady, 232
Hopton, Sir Owen, 227, 228 and footnote, 229, 231-236, 237-238 f.n., 239, 247
Howard, Lady Frances, 242, 243
Howard, Lord William and Lady, 263, 269, 270-271
Huntingdon, Earl of, 76;
agitation in favour of his claims to the throne, 158-159, 184, 185, 245
James, Prince (afterwards King James I), 59 f.n., 243, 244 f.n., 248;
attempt to kidnap him, and put an end to him, 247, 250 and footnote, 251, 252
Jane Grey, Lady. See Grey
Jane Seymour, Lady (sister of the Earl of Hertford), Lady
Katherine Grey’s friendship for, 127;
acts as her intermediary, 143, 164, 165;
witnesses Lady Katherine’s wedding, 166;
her death and funeral, 167-168, 177, 178
Katherine Grey, Lady. See Grey
Katherine Howard, Queen, 72
Katherine of Aragon, Queen, 6, 12, 23, 26, 28, 54, 57, 60, 62, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75 and footnote
Katherine of Valois, Queen, xxiii;
her meeting with Owen Tudor, xxiv and footnote;
her children by Owen, xxvi, xxvii;
banishment and death, xxvi-xxvii.
See Owen Tudor
Katherine Willoughby d’Eresby, Duchess of Suffolk (fourth wife of Charles Brandon), 19 f.n.;
her marriage with Brandon, her parentage, etc., 73;
her children, their early deaths, 74, 75;
attends Brandon’s death-bed, 78;
her visitors at the Barbican, 78-79;
re-marries and flies from England, 79, 91 and footnote, 106, 136, 137;
Lady Mary Grey lodged with, 274;
complains to Cecil, 275;
her letter to same about Lady Mary’s goods, 275-276, 285, 286, 288, 290 f.n., 298
Keyes, Thomas, Sergeant-Porter of the Watergate (husband of Lady Mary Grey), his antecedents, 258;
his family, extraordinary stature, etc., 259 and footnote;
his duties as Porter, 260 and footnote;
his private apartment, 260;
marries Lady Mary Grey, 262-263, 264;
sent to the Fleet Prison, 265, 266, 267;
his evidence before the Council, 268;
is to go to Ireland, 278;
is willing to renounce his wife, 279;
discomforts of his life in the Fleet, 278, 279, 280;
is nearly poisoned, 280;
removed to Lewisham, 280;
his last appeal to Cecil, 280-281;
his death 281;
news of same conveyed to Lady Mary, 283
Killigrew, Sir Henry, 250 and footnote
Knollys, Henry, 262 and footnote
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of. See Dudley, Robert
Lennox, Countess of. See Margaret Douglas
Lisle, Lady Elizabeth (aunt of above), 17
Louis XII of France, proposed as husband for Mary Tudor, state of his health, 22 and footnote, 27, 28;
his “treaty of marriage,” and marriage by proxy, 28-29;
his meeting with Mary Tudor, 31-32;
and marriage with her, 32-33;
his gifts to Mary Tudor, 33, 38, 42, 46, 52;
objects to her attendants, 33 et seq., 40;
Louise of Savoy, 44, 46, 50-51
Maltravers, Lady, 220
Margaret, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, 17, 18;
visits Henry VIII at Tournay, incidents there, 19-21, 26
Margaret Clifford, Lady, 298, 299-304
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, 115, 184 f.n., 193, 250, 286, 299
Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Beaufort, xxix, 295
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 59, 193
Mary Grey, Lady. See Grey, Lady Mary
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, 76, 90, 96, 133-134, 149, 184 f.n., 193, 212 and footnote, 221, 223-224, 225, 250, 251
Mary Tudor, Queen of England, xxx, 60, 91, 93, 104, 107, 108, 109;
her court, 110; 111, 128, 129;
her marriage to Philip of Spain, 115-117;
proceeds to Windsor, 118-119;
goes to Suffolk Place, 120;
proceeds to Hampton Court, 121;
her life there, 122-123, 125, 127;
Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk (Charles Brandon’s third wife), 17, 19-20, 21, 22 and footnote, 23;