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
60 - Another Grissel for her Patience
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
Burghley notes in his retrospective Diary (ii, p. 787) that in January 1588, ‘The Earl of Derby, Lord Cobham, Sir James Crofts, and Dr. Dale sent to Ostend to treat with Commissioners of the King of Spayne’:
And Robert Cecill, my Son, did attend upon them, and went to the Duke of Parma and to Antwerp.
This entry explains Cecil's presence in Ostend on 27 February, whence he wrote to Burghley:
If my lady of Oxford were here her beauty would quickly be marred, for when we sit in our poor lodging by the fire, we look all as pale and wan as ashes by the smoke of our turfs, which makes me envy your lordship's porter, that sits all day by a sweet fire of sea coal in your lodge. Sed ferre quamsortem patiuntur omnes nemo recuset [=‘But we must each bear the fate which is appointed us’].
Two days later Cecil sent another letter, with a separate message (now lost) for Oxford:
I have written to the Earl of Oxford and pray that my lady his wife may send it to him.
Cecil assumes that Anne is in touch with her (absent) husband. From Cecil's compliment to his sister's beauty and because he takes for granted that she will forward his letter, we may infer that she was in good health. Doubtless she was preoccupied with her three daughters, Elizabeth fourteen (the age at which Anne was engaged to Oxford), Bridget nearly four, and Susan not yet out of her first year.
In April, Oxford received votes from three of the seven electors for the Order of the Garter; as usual, Burghley was one of his backers (G-BL). As usual, Oxford was not appointed to the Order. In May, as Burghley noted in his retrospective Diary (ii, p. 788), Elizabeth re-granted Oxford two ancient properties:
A Graunt of the Priory of Earles Colne, and the Mannor of Colne in Essex, to the Earl of Oxford, and the Heyres of his Body, yelding the Rent of 66l.
Oxford had of course already sold these lands to Roger Harlackenden.
On 5 June, quite unexpectedly, Anne died at Greenwich, in her thirty-second year. Her funeral is described by Sir William Dethicke, Garter King at Arms:
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- Monstrous AdversaryThe Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, pp. 308 - 310Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003