God’s traitors : terror and faith in Elizabethan England PDF
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God’s Traitors Also by Jessie Childs Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey God’s Traitors Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England Jessie Childs 3 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Jessie Childs 2014 First published in Great Britain in 2014 by The Bodley Head All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Childs, Jessie, 1976– God’s traitors : terror and faith in Elizabethan England / Jessie Childs. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–939235–3 (acid-free paper) 1. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603. 2. Anti-Catholicism—England—History—16th century. 3. Persecution—England— History—16th century. 4. Catholics—England—History—16th century. 5. England— Church history—16th century. 6. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603—Relations with Catholics. 7. Vaux, William, Baron, 1535–1595. 8. Vaux family. I. Title. DA355.C47 2014 942.05’5—dc23 2014001644 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To my mother and sister No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends, or of thine own were; Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 17 Meditation, sig. T4 Contents Timeline xi Author’s Note xv Map xvi Family Tree xix Principal Characters xxi Introduction 1 Prelude: The Calm before Campion 7 part one William and Henry 1 The Enterprise is Begun 43 2 To be a Perfect Catholic 62 3 Lying Lips 75 4 Worldly Woes 89 5 Refuse of the World 99 6 Flibbertigibbets 112 7 Atheistical Anthony Babington’s Complotment 125 8 Lambs to the Slaughter 133 part two Eleanor and Anne 9 The Widow and the Virgin 145 10 Fright and Rumour 158 11 Mrs Brooksby’s Household 166 12 Virgo Becomes Virago 192 13 Hurly Burly 197 14 Hot Holy Ladies 211
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