[48]. The Earl and Sir John Zouch, a kinsman of the Countess, were contesting the right to sell some Derbyshire lead mines.
[49]. Hunter’s Hallamshire.
[50]. Ibid.
[51]. Goodrich Castle, in Herefordshire; also one of the Shrewsbury properties at this date.
[52]. His little son.
[53]. The mouth of a coal-pit.
[54]. Probably “detailing” or “appealing to.”
[55]. Hunter’s Hallamshire.
[56]. That is, clearly a plot against Shrewsbury.
[57]. The Duke of Anjou, Elizabeth’s new suitor, whom she called her “Frogg,” while his ambassador, Simier, who so nearly, in his own opinion, secured for his master the bride of his ambitions, was known at Court as the “Monkey.”