[38]. Hunter’s Hallamshire.
[39]. Her husband died of consumption within two years of the hasty and romantic wedding at Rufford Abbey.
[40]. Hallamshire knives, or “whittles,” were famous, and the Earl often sent gifts of sets to his friends in these early days of the development of Sheffield cutlery.
[41]. Creighton takes the view that this was Elizabeth’s elaborate method of flogging the couple at Chatsworth for luring Leicester to Chatsworth, and that she highly disapproved of the visit.
[42]. Ambrose Earl of Warwick, to whom Lord Leicester bequeathed his estates, only making his own son, Robert Dudley, heir in the second place.
[43]. In sending her thanks for Leicester’s entertainment Elizabeth apparently despatched also to Shrewsbury a separate letter embodying her old suspicious fears.
[44]. Could this be the Earl of Warwick, who, as suggested in Elizabeth’s skittish letter just quoted, had been invited to Chatsworth with Lord Leicester?
[45]. Hunter’s Hallamshire.
[46]. Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, quoted by Leader.
[47]. Hunter’s Hallamshire.