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тАв/ rtlice Knollys: 1541-1634. Dowager Countess of Essex. Mnlher of Robert Devereaux, 2 nd Earl of Essex. Second will- of
Robert Dudley. One son born to them, *Robert, Union Denbigh 1579-1584.
* Ambassador Fenelon: Representative of France to England in 1574.
*lh┬╗i Bernardino de Mendoza: Ambassador from Spain to I',upland after the Treaty of Bristol in 1574.
*i,dward de Vere: d? Earl of Oxford. Secret Catholic. Declared his faith in 1580, seduced one of Elizabeth's niiiids in
1580, as well. An eccentric and free spirit. Married *Anne Cecil, Lord Burghley's daughter (she was fifteen).
* Henry Hastings: 1536-1595. 3rd Earl Huntington. Descended from Edward III. Had a claim to the throne, but not
ambitious enough to pursue it. Married to *Katherine I )udley, sister of Robert Dudley.
*Katherine Dudley: d. 1620. Lady Hastings. Lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I.
"Mary Dudley: d. 1586. Lady Sidney. A favorite lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I.
*Thomas* Howard: d. 1572. 4 th Duke of Norfolk. Open Catholic who conspired with Mary Queen of Scots to depose
Elizabeth I by assassination. Executed for treason.
*William Cecil: d? Lord Burleigh. Elizabeth's Secretary of State and chief advisor.
Malcolm the Steward: 1525-1572. Steward of Kirkenwood killed by werewolves.
Thorn Steward- 1530-? Steward of Kirkenwood, Malcolm's brother.
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*Bess Hardwick: Countess of Shrewsbury and mistress of Chatsworth Manor. Her husband was Guardian of Mary
Queen of Scots for many years. Bess controlled who visited the queen. Married her daughter to *Charles StuartтАФ
second son of Earl of Lennox and younger brother of ?Lord Darnley, Mary's second husband. Granddaughter ?
Arabella Stuart became a pawn in the marriage market because she was a cousin of Elizabeth I.
*Sir Francis Walsingham: Diplomat and spymaster for Elizabeth. Nicknamed her "Moor."
Sir Michael Maelstrom: b. 1554. Spy for Walsingham. Baron of Bobbington and Six Ashes.
Zella: b. 1564. Hedge witch with one blue eye and one brown eye.
*Edmund Campion: Jesuit priest, largely responsible for success of the Jesuit mission to England and the upsurge of
Catholic resistance.
*Robert Parsons: Radical Jesuit priest, paired with Campion in Jesuit mission to England.
*Gilbert Gifford: Sympathizer with Mary Queen of Scots, blackmailed by Walsingham to act as agent in final plot
against Mary.
*Sir Amyas Paulet: Puritan, final goaler of Mary Que of Scots.
*Thomas Phelippes: Code breaker for Walsingham.
*Francis Throckmorton: Secret Catholic caught and el cuted in a plot with French Embassy to free Mary Queen of
Scots.
*Sir Nicholas Throckmorton: Uncle of Francis, friend of Leicester.

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* Master Burton: Brewer who delivers beer to Chartly Manor. Nnl privy to the final plot to implicate Mary Queen of
Scots.
*Anthony Babington ofDethick: b. 1561(?)-1586. Conspirator with Mary Queen of Scots in a plot to assassinate
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guardian Promise
Merlin's Descendants:
Volume Four
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Prologue
^K/ June, 1572. The fourteenth year in the reign of Her May