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
59 - No Enemy can Envy this Match
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 8 February 1587 Mary of Scotland was executed at Fotheringhay Castle. Whatever Oxford thought about the proceedings, he would gather at the trough with the rest, petitioning the English Queen for lands forfeited by Edward Jones, one of the Scottish Queen's attainted partisans.
On 12 March Stephen Le Sieur wrote to Walsingham from his prison in Dunkirk:
… However it fall out, I must beseech you for more money, that I may not have to stay here for want of it. If I had not been forced to pay 230fl for Captain Brackenbury; 112fl for Thomas Whithead, a gentleman of my lord of Oxford; and 50fl for one Robert Galeys, the fifty pounds your honour sent me of late would suffice. If those bound had care of their credit and thought upon God, they would long since have sent me the moneys with which I assisted them in their necessity.
Thomas Whithead, now openly identified as Oxford's man, had been ransomed, Le Sieur having put up the required 112fl. Brackenbury, Whithead, and Galeys had promised to secure Le Sieur's freedom once they made it back to England, but had reneged.
In April Oxford received four votes from eight Garter electors: Burghley, as usual, supported him; as usual, Oxford was passed over (G-BL). On 30 April Cecil wrote to Burghley:
… My Lady of Oxford hath willed me to desire your Lordship, if in your wisdom you think it may do any good, to impart her letter to your Lordship to the Queen, otherwise, according to your pleasure, to let it alone.
Apparently Anne hoped the Queen would persuade Oxford to provide adequately for their children. Burghley's letter of 5 May to Walsingham, which chiefly concerns Oxford's acquisition of attainted lands, touches incidentally and pathetically on Oxford's treatment of Anne in the sixteenth year of their marriage:
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- Monstrous AdversaryThe Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, pp. 303 - 307Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003