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fortunes and from that time they engaged many times with
enemy but without success until the 8th of May, when they met
with the London fleet by whom news was brought of Captain
Glemham's actions
2oth August    the lady bridget manners
The Queen is much incensed at hearing of the marriage of the
Lady Bridget Manners, one of her favourite ladies-in-waiting,
that took place in the country without her consent
Two months since, the Countess of Rutland, the Lady's
mother, concluded with the executors of Mr Tyrwhitt for the
wardship of his young son, and in July wrote asking that her
Majesty would allow her daughter to visit her, whom she had
not seen these five years The Queen having given her consent,
the Lady Bridget returned home to her mother and in a short
while after is wedded to Mr Tyrwhitt
Now that the marriage is known, the Queen is especially
enraged with the Countess, refusing to believe that she could be
ignorant of it, for the marriage was in her own house, and by her
own chaplain, nor will she believe that the Lady Budget is so
undutiful a daughter to have adventured so great a breach of
duty without her mother's acquaintance and consent had first
been obtained Her Majesty has therefore ordered that Mr
Tyrwhitt and his wife be sent to London, the former to be
committed to prison, the latter, by her favour, not imprisoned
but put in custody of some lady
A plot to kill the queen
Captain Edmund Yorke, a prisoner, son of Sir Edmund Yorke,
under examination hath confessed that he was persuaded by
Father Holt to come over on the Queen's pardon, and to live
in the Court, having the money due to his uncle sent for his
maintenance and an assurance on oath of 40,000 crowns with
present payment guaranteed by Stephen de Ibarra the Secretary
of the King of Spam if he performed the required service of
killing the Queen, by his own agents or by others At the
conference held thereon, Sir William Stanley and others were
present, some spoke of a poisoned arrow or rapier, or a dagger
as she walked in the garden He was to serve the Earl of Essex,
his fellows, Williams and Young, the Lord Chamberlain They
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