An Elizabethan Spy Who Came in from the Cold: the Return of Anthony Standen to England in 1593

Hammer, Paul E. J.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.1992.tb00933.x

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“…67 In 1588, Anthony Standen, a spy having followed Walsingham from or before his Paris embassy, procured an annual pension of £100 for his tracking of Spanish naval preparations for the Armada. 68 Even so, the ballooning cost of Walsingham's expansive secretariat and pan-European espionage were far from covered by government funds. 69 One French informant, Pierre d'Or, alias Henri Châteaumartin, alone demanded no less than £1000 to meet his expenditure in 1590.…”

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The Secretariat of Francis Walsingham, 1568–1590

2023

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Mid‐Elizabethan rivalry over policy and patronage split the system of state information and espionage into the collaboration of individuals. To maintain the utmost privacy, Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, designed a comparatively enclosed information management and secretarial machinery that combined household space with clientage. This strategy facilitated the multiple infiltrations of clientage into the different levels of power politics, ranging from pan‐European espionage to government administration and parliament. The political involvement of clientele hence constructed the late Tudor polity out of another amalgam of bureaucratic and household elements. Using the model of Walsingham's privatised, flexible and meritocratic secretariat, this essay will examine a new style of Tudor clientage and their capture of power within the mid‐Elizabethan regime. In doing so, it explores the connection within and between clients, bureaucrats and the monarch, as well as a political controversy concerning the late Tudor polity.

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The Secretariat of Francis Walsingham, 1568–1590

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“…One daughter married a Hatton relative around 1585, 149 another married William Standen, son of Edmund, clerk of the Petty Bag, possibly bringing contact with Anthony, the spy so recently come in from the cold. 150 Elizabeth Trentham, Maid of Honour to the Queen, married Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford, only a short time before her brother married Katherine Sheldon. 151 Ralph's second, and his youngest, daughters married into recusant families, the Fowlers of Stafford and the Sulyards of Haughley, Suffolk.…”

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Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity?

Turner¹

2019

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On two occasions, in 1580–1 and 1587, the Worcestershire gentleman Ralph Sheldon of Beoley and Weston (1537–1613) undertook to attend services in his parish church. This article seeks to make sense of these occasions of ‘conformity’, in the context of the situation and choices facing Catholics in Protestant England. It argues that Ralph consciously rejected the Jesuit message about non-attendance at the state church, a view he never abandoned. Never described by his contemporaries as ‘papistically affected’, let alone as an ‘obstinate recusant’, his later reputation as such is mistaken. By exploring the evidence relating to these occasions of official conformity, it is possible to see how he managed the challenge of being a Catholic living within the law. He could be regarded, and treated, as an obedient subject. He might thus be viewed as a church papist. However, since occasional conformity must itself also suggest recusancy, a more nuanced understanding of his position requires a reconsideration of some of the evidence.

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“… Even recent research conducted in relation to Elizabethan intelligence and espionage – which, by its very nature, demands an analysis of the ways and means that information flowed into London – has predominantly bypassed provincial news networks and the important role played by local government officials as gatherers and purveyors of vital information. Robert Hutchinson, for example, acknowledges that ‘international intelligence was … flowing into London … domestically from the Lord Lieutenants of the counties’ and that customs searchers at the major English ports were responsible for ‘stopping and questioning travellers from abroad’. However, he does not elaborate any further.…”

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Provincial news networks in late Elizabethan Devon

Cooper

2014

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This article investigates the circulation of news that daily arrived in the ports of late Elizabethan Devon concerning the Spanish fleet. It utilizes the state and Cecil papers, as well as other centrally and locally held manuscript collections, to probe the nature of provincial news networks through the prism of a county‐based case study. Previous scholarly research has tended to focus on the single ‘hub’ of London. However, as this article reveals, there existed much more complex sets of news networks that operated in the first instance at a local level, but which also had connections with the capital.

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An Elizabethan Spy Who Came in from the Cold: the Return of Anthony Standen to England in 1593

Cited by 11 publications

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The Secretariat of Francis Walsingham, 1568–1590

The Secretariat of Francis Walsingham, 1568–1590

Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity?

Provincial news networks in late Elizabethan Devon

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