Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Procedures
- Introduction
- Part I Roots 1548–1562
- Part II Youth 1562–1571
- Part III Emancipation 1571–1574
- Part IV Exploration 1574–1576
- Part V Alienation 1576–1579
- Part VI Intrigue 1579–1580
- Part VII Sedition 1580–1581
- Part VIII Release 1581–1585
- Part IX Reiteration 1586–1591
- 58 Maintenance for his Nobility
- 59 No Enemy can Envy this Match
- 60 Another Grissel for her Patience
- 61 Rid of my Lord Oxford
- 62 City House, Country House
- 63 I Have not Had my Health
- 64 Weary of an Unsettled Life
- Part X Renewal 1592–1595
- Part XI Re-engagement 1595–1599
- Part XII Decline 1600–1604
- Part XIII Aftermath 1604–1613
- Notes
- Appendix: Oxford's Letters and Libel Documents
- Bibliography
- Index
- Liverpool English texts and Studies
58 - Maintenance for his Nobility
from Part IX - Reiteration 1586–1591
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Procedures
- Introduction
- Part I Roots 1548–1562
- Part II Youth 1562–1571
- Part III Emancipation 1571–1574
- Part IV Exploration 1574–1576
- Part V Alienation 1576–1579
- Part VI Intrigue 1579–1580
- Part VII Sedition 1580–1581
- Part VIII Release 1581–1585
- Part IX Reiteration 1586–1591
- 58 Maintenance for his Nobility
- 59 No Enemy can Envy this Match
- 60 Another Grissel for her Patience
- 61 Rid of my Lord Oxford
- 62 City House, Country House
- 63 I Have not Had my Health
- 64 Weary of an Unsettled Life
- Part X Renewal 1592–1595
- Part XI Re-engagement 1595–1599
- Part XII Decline 1600–1604
- Part XIII Aftermath 1604–1613
- Notes
- Appendix: Oxford's Letters and Libel Documents
- Bibliography
- Index
- Liverpool English texts and Studies
Summary
On 21 June 1586 Burghley wrote to Walsingham:
I pray yow send me word if yow had any commoditie to spek with hir Maiesty to spek for my Lord of Oxford, and what hope ther is, and if yow have any to lett Robert Cecill vnderstand it, to releve his sistar, who is more troubled for hir husbandes lack, then he hym self.
Oxford had petitioned the Queen, with Burghley's support, for an annuity to repair his damaged finances, incidentally bringing relief to Anne. On the morning of 25 June Oxford wrote to Burghley from court (LL-16):
My very good lord as I have bene behowldinge vnto yow diuers tymes & of late, by my brother [=brother-in-law] R. Cecill, wherby I have bene the better able to follow my sute, wherin I have sume comfort at this tyme from Mr Secretarie Wallsingham, so am I now bowld, to crave yowre lordships help at this present. for beinge now almost at a point to tast[e] that good whiche her Magestie shall determine[,] yet am I [as] on[e] that hathe longe besieged a fort and not able to compas the end or reap the frut of his travel [=travail], beinge forst to leuie [=raise] his si[e]ge for want of munition. Beinge therfore thus disfurnished and vnprouided to follow her Magestie as I perceyve she will loke for, I most ernestly desyre yowre lordship that yow will lend me 200 pounds tyll her Magestie performethe her promes. out of which I shall make my payment yf it pleas yow with the rest that yowre lordship hathe at sundrie tymes to my great furtherance and help in my causes sent me by yowre seruant and stuard [=steward] Billet. I wowld be lothe to have trobled yowre lordship with so muche yf I were not kept here bake [=back] with this tedious sut, from London, where I wowld have found means to have taken vp so muche to have serued my turne tyll her magestie had dispached me, but for that I dare not, hauinge bene here so longe, and the matter growinge to sume conclusion, be absent. I pray yowre lordship beare with me, that at this time wherin I am to set my self in order I doo become so troblesume
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- Monstrous AdversaryThe Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, pp. 300 - 302Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003