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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_(England)" title="Secretary of State (England)">Secretary of State</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 1573–1590</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth I</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">c. 1532<a href="#cite_note-2">[a]</a> probably <a href="/wiki/Chislehurst" title="Chislehurst">Chislehurst</a>, Kent, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">6 April 1590 (aged c. 58) London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Anne Barne</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1562; died 1564)</div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Ursula_St_Barbe" title="Ursula St Barbe">Ursula St Barbe</a> </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1566)</div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2, including <a href="/wiki/Frances_Burke,_Countess_of_Clanricarde" title="Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde">Frances</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>William Walsingham (father)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Joyce_Denny" title="Joyce Denny">Joyce Denny</a> (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Statesman and <a href="/wiki/Spymaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Spymaster">spymaster</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Sir Francis Walsingham (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1532 – 6 April 1590) was <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_(England)" title="Secretary of State (England)">principal secretary</a> to Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "<a href="/wiki/Spymaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Spymaster">spymaster</a>". Born to a well-connected family of <a href="/wiki/Gentry" title="Gentry">gentry</a>, Walsingham attended <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge University</a> and travelled in continental Europe before embarking on a career in law at the age of twenty. A committed <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a>, during the reign of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> Queen <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I of England</a> he joined other expatriates in exile in Switzerland and northern Italy until Mary's death and the accession of her Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth. Walsingham rose from relative obscurity to become one of the small coterie who directed the <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_era" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan</a> state, overseeing foreign, domestic and religious policy. He served as <a href="/wiki/English_ambassador_to_France" class="mw-redirect" title="English ambassador to France">English ambassador to France</a> in the early 1570s and witnessed the <a href="/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre" title="St. Bartholomew's Day massacre">St. Bartholomew's Day massacre</a>. As principal secretary, he supported exploration, colonization, the development of the navy, and the <a href="/wiki/Plantation_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Plantation of Ireland">plantation of Ireland</a>. He worked to bring Scotland and England together. Overall, his foreign policy demonstrated a new understanding of the role of England as a maritime Protestant power with intercontinental trading ties. He oversaw operations that penetrated Spanish military preparation, gathered intelligence from across Europe, disrupted a range of plots against Elizabeth and secured the execution of <a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots" title="Mary, Queen of Scots">Mary, Queen of Scots</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_and_early_life">Origins and early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins and early life">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scadbury_Manor.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Scadbury_Manor.jpg/220px-Scadbury_Manor.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Scadbury_Manor.jpg/330px-Scadbury_Manor.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Scadbury_Manor.jpg/440px-Scadbury_Manor.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Ruins of <a href="/wiki/Scadbury_Park" title="Scadbury Park">Scadbury Hall</a>, seat of the Walsingham family, Chislehurst, Kent</figcaption></figure> Francis Walsingham was born around 1532, probably at <a href="/wiki/Foots_Cray" title="Foots Cray">Foots Cray</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Chislehurst" title="Chislehurst">Chislehurst</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>,<a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a> the only son<a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a> of William Walsingham (died 1534), a successful and well-connected London lawyer who served as a member of the commission appointed to investigate the estates of Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a> in 1530.<a href="#cite_note-h28-5">[4]</a> William's elder brother was Sir <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Walsingham" title="Edmund Walsingham">Edmund Walsingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Constable_of_the_Tower_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Constable of the Tower of London">Lieutenant of the Tower of London</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[5]</a> Francis's mother was <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Denny" title="Joyce Denny">Joyce Denny</a>, a daughter of the courtier Sir <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Denny" title="Edmund Denny">Edmund Denny</a> of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, and a sister of the courtier Sir <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Denny" title="Anthony Denny">Anthony Denny</a>, the principal <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_of_the_Privy_Chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman of the Privy Chamber">Gentleman of the Privy Chamber</a> to King <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a> After the death of her first husband she married the courtier Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Carey_(courtier)" title="John Carey (courtier)">John Carey</a> in 1538.<a href="#cite_note-h28-5">[4]</a> Carey's brother <a href="/wiki/William_Carey_(courtier)" title="William Carey (courtier)">William</a> was the husband of <a href="/wiki/Mary_Boleyn" title="Mary Boleyn">Mary Boleyn</a>, the elder sister of <a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII" title="Wives of Henry VIII">second wife</a> of King Henry VIII.<a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a> Of Francis's five siblings, Mary married Sir <a href="/wiki/Walter_Mildmay" title="Walter Mildmay">Walter Mildmay</a>, who was <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> for over 20 years, and Elizabeth married the parliamentarian <a href="/wiki/Peter_Wentworth" title="Peter Wentworth">Peter Wentworth</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a> Francis Walsingham matriculated at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a>, in 1548 with many other Protestants but as an undergraduate of high social status did not sit for a degree.<a href="#cite_note-h28-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a> From 1550 or 1551, he travelled in continental Europe, returning to England by 1552 to enrol at <a href="/wiki/Gray%27s_Inn" title="Gray's Inn">Gray's Inn</a>, one of the qualifying bodies for English lawyers.<a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a> Upon the death in 1553 of Henry VIII's successor, <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI" title="Edward VI">Edward VI</a>, Edward's Catholic half-sister <a href="/wiki/Mary_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary I">Mary</a> became queen. Many wealthy Protestants, such as <a href="/wiki/John_Foxe" title="John Foxe">John Foxe</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Cheke" title="John Cheke">John Cheke</a>, fled England, and Walsingham was among them. He continued his studies in law at the universities of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Basel" title="University of Basel">Basel</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Padua" title="University of Padua">Padua</a>,<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a> where he was elected to the governing body by his fellow students in 1555.<a href="#cite_note-13">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rise_to_power">Rise to power</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rise to power">edit</a>]</div> Mary I died in November 1558 and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth</a>. Walsingham returned to England and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Russell,_2nd_Earl_of_Bedford" title="Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford">Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford</a>, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for <a href="/wiki/Bossiney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)">Bossiney, Cornwall</a>, in 1559.<a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a> At the subsequent election in 1563, he was returned for both <a href="/wiki/Lyme_Regis_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lyme Regis (UK Parliament constituency)">Lyme Regis, Dorset</a>, another constituency under Bedford's influence,<a href="#cite_note-15">[14]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Banbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Banbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Banbury, Oxfordshire</a>. He chose to sit for Lyme Regis.<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> In January 1562 he married Anne, daughter of Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Barne_II" class="mw-redirect" title="George Barne II">George Barne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London" title="Lord Mayor of London">Lord Mayor of London</a> in 1552–3, and widow of wine merchant Alexander Carleill.<a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a> Anne died two years later leaving her son <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Carleill" title="Christopher Carleill">Christopher Carleill</a> in Walsingham's care.<a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a> In 1566, Walsingham married <a href="/wiki/Ursula_St._Barbe" class="mw-redirect" title="Ursula St. Barbe">Ursula St. Barbe</a>, widow of Sir Richard Worsley, and Walsingham acquired her estates of <a href="/wiki/Appuldurcombe" class="mw-redirect" title="Appuldurcombe">Appuldurcombe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carisbrooke_Priory" title="Carisbrooke Priory">Carisbrooke Priory</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> The following year, they had a daughter, <a href="/wiki/Frances_Walsingham" class="mw-redirect" title="Frances Walsingham">Frances</a>. Walsingham's other two stepsons, Ursula's sons John and George, were killed in a gunpowder accident at Appuldurcombe in 1567.<a href="#cite_note-20">[19]</a> In the following years, Walsingham became active in soliciting support for the <a href="/wiki/Huguenots" title="Huguenots">Huguenots</a> in France and developed a friendly and close working relationship with <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Throckmorton" title="Nicholas Throckmorton">Nicholas Throckmorton</a>, his predecessor as MP for Lyme Regis and a former ambassador to France.<a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> By 1569, Walsingham was working with <a href="/wiki/William_Cecil,_1st_Baron_Burghley" title="William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley">William Cecil</a> to counteract plots against Elizabeth. He was instrumental in the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Ridolfi_plot" title="Ridolfi plot">Ridolfi plot</a>, which hoped to replace Elizabeth with the Catholic <a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots" title="Mary, Queen of Scots">Mary, Queen of Scots</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[21]</a> He is credited with writing propaganda decrying a conspiratorial marriage between Mary and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_4th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk">Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk</a>,<a href="#cite_note-25">[b]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roberto_di_Ridolfi" class="mw-redirect" title="Roberto di Ridolfi">Roberto di Ridolfi</a>, after whom the plot was named, was interrogated at Walsingham's house.<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a> In 1570, the Queen chose Walsingham to support the Huguenots in their negotiations with <a href="/wiki/Charles_IX_of_France" title="Charles IX of France">Charles IX of France</a>. Later that year, he succeeded Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Norris,_1st_Baron_Norreys" title="Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys">Henry Norris</a> as English ambassador in Paris.<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a> One of his duties was to continue negotiations for a marriage between Elizabeth and Charles IX's younger brother <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_France" title="Henry III of France">Henry, Duke of Anjou</a>. The marriage plan was eventually dropped on the grounds of Henry's Catholicism.<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a> A substitute match with the youngest brother, <a href="/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Alen%C3%A7on" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis, Duke of Alençon">Francis, Duke of Alençon</a>, was proposed but Walsingham considered him ugly and "void of a good humour".<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a> Elizabeth was 20 years older than Alençon, and was concerned that the age difference would be seen as absurd.<a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a> Walsingham believed that it would serve England better to seek a military alliance with France against Spanish interests.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> The defensive <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Blois_(1572)" title="Treaty of Blois (1572)">Treaty of Blois</a> was concluded between France and England in 1572, but the treaty made no provision for a royal marriage and left the question of Elizabeth's successor open.<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a> The Huguenots and other European Protestant interests supported the nascent revolt in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Spanish Netherlands</a>, which were provinces of <a href="/wiki/Habsburg_Spain" title="Habsburg Spain">Habsburg Spain</a>. When Catholic opposition to this course in France resulted in the death of Huguenot leader <a href="/wiki/Gaspard_II_de_Coligny" title="Gaspard II de Coligny">Gaspard de Coligny</a> and the <a href="/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre" title="St. Bartholomew's Day massacre">St. Bartholomew's Day massacre</a>, Walsingham's house in Paris became a temporary sanctuary for Protestant refugees, including <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a>.<a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a> Ursula, who was pregnant, escaped to England with their four-year-old daughter. She gave birth to a second girl, Mary, in January 1573 while Walsingham was still in France.<a href="#cite_note-34">[32]</a> He returned to England in April 1573,<a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a> having established himself as a competent official whom the Queen and Cecil could trust.<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a> He cultivated contacts throughout Europe, and a century later his dispatches would be published as The Complete Ambassador.<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> In the December following his return, Walsingham was appointed to the <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_England" title="Privy Council of England">Privy Council of England</a> and was made joint <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_(England)" title="Secretary of State (England)">principal secretary</a> (the position which later became "Secretary of State") with Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Smith_(diplomat)" title="Thomas Smith (diplomat)">Thomas Smith</a>. Smith retired in 1576, leaving Walsingham in effective control of the <a href="/wiki/Privy_Seal_of_England" title="Privy Seal of England">privy seal</a>, though he was not formally invested as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Lord Privy Seal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[36]</a> Walsingham acquired a <a href="/wiki/Surrey_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)">Surrey county seat</a> in Parliament from 1572 that he retained until his death, but he was not a major parliamentarian.<a href="#cite_note-39">[37]</a> He was knighted on 1 December 1577,<a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a> and held the <a href="/wiki/Sinecure" title="Sinecure">sinecure</a> posts of Recorder of Colchester, <a href="/wiki/Custos_rotulorum" title="Custos rotulorum">custos rotulorum</a> of Hampshire, and High Steward of Salisbury, Ipswich and Winchester.<a href="#cite_note-41">[39]</a> He was appointed <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Order_of_the_Garter" title="Chancellor of the Order of the Garter">Chancellor of the Order of the Garter</a> from 22 April 1578 until succeeded by Sir <a href="/wiki/Amias_Paulet" title="Amias Paulet">Amias Paulet</a> in June 1587, when he became <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Duchy_of_Lancaster" title="Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster">Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster</a> in addition to principal secretary.<a href="#cite_note-42">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secretary_of_State">Secretary of State</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Secretary of State">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_Elizabeth_I;_Sir_Francis_Walsingham;_William_Cecil,_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Queen_Elizabeth_I%3B_Sir_Francis_Walsingham%3B_William_Cecil%2C_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_%282%29.jpg/220px-Queen_Elizabeth_I%3B_Sir_Francis_Walsingham%3B_William_Cecil%2C_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Queen_Elizabeth_I%3B_Sir_Francis_Walsingham%3B_William_Cecil%2C_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_%282%29.jpg/330px-Queen_Elizabeth_I%3B_Sir_Francis_Walsingham%3B_William_Cecil%2C_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Queen_Elizabeth_I%3B_Sir_Francis_Walsingham%3B_William_Cecil%2C_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_%282%29.jpg/440px-Queen_Elizabeth_I%3B_Sir_Francis_Walsingham%3B_William_Cecil%2C_1st_Baron_Burghley_by_William_Faithorne_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="2875" /></a><figcaption>Seventeenth-century engraving of Queen Elizabeth with William Cecil (left) and Francis Walsingham (right)</figcaption></figure> The duties of the principal secretary were not defined formally,<a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a> but as he handled all royal correspondence and determined the agenda of council meetings, he could wield great influence in all matters of policy and in every field of government, both foreign and domestic.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> During his term of office, Walsingham supported the use of England's maritime power to open new trade routes and explore the New World, and was at the heart of international affairs. He was involved directly with English policy towards Spain, the Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland and France, and embarked on several diplomatic missions to neighbouring European states.<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> Closely linked to the mercantile community, he actively supported trade promotion schemes and invested in the <a href="/wiki/Muscovy_Company" title="Muscovy Company">Muscovy Company</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Levant_Company" title="Levant Company">Levant Company</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a> He supported the attempts of <a href="/wiki/John_Davis_(English_explorer)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Davis (English explorer)">John Davis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Martin_Frobisher" title="Martin Frobisher">Martin Frobisher</a> to discover the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Passage" title="Northwest Passage">Northwest Passage</a> and exploit the mineral resources of <a href="/wiki/Labrador" title="Labrador">Labrador</a>, and encouraged <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Gilbert" title="Humphrey Gilbert">Humphrey Gilbert</a>'s exploration of <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> Gilbert's voyage was largely financed by <a href="/wiki/Recusancy" title="Recusancy">recusant</a> Catholics and Walsingham favoured the scheme as a potential means of removing Catholics from England by encouraging emigration to the New World.<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> Walsingham was among the promoters of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Francis Drake</a>'s profitable 1578–1581 circumnavigation of the world, correctly judging that Spanish possessions in the Pacific were vulnerable to attack. The venture was calculated to promote the Protestant interest by embarrassing and weakening the Spanish, as well as to seize Spanish treasure.<a href="#cite_note-48">[46]</a> The first edition of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hakluyt" title="Richard Hakluyt">Richard Hakluyt</a>'s Principal Navigation, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation was dedicated to Walsingham.<a href="#cite_note-49">[47]</a> Walsingham advocated direct intervention in the Netherlands in support of the Protestant revolt against Spain, on the grounds that although wars of conquest were unjust, wars in defence of religious liberty and freedom were not.<a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a> Cecil was more circumspect and advised a policy of mediation, a policy that Elizabeth endorsed.<a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> Walsingham was sent on a special embassy to the Netherlands in 1578, to sound out a potential peace deal and gather military intelligence.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_IX_of_France" title="Charles IX of France">Charles IX</a> died in 1574 and the Duke of Anjou inherited the French throne as Henry III.<a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> Between 1578 and 1581 the Queen resurrected attempts to negotiate a marriage with Henry III's youngest brother, the Duke of Alençon, who had put himself forward as a protector of the Huguenots and a potential leader of the Dutch.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> Walsingham was sent to France in mid-1581 to discuss an Anglo-French alliance, but the French wanted the marriage agreed first and Walsingham was under instruction to obtain a treaty before committing to the marriage. He returned to England without an agreement.<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a> Personally, Walsingham opposed the marriage, perhaps to the point of encouraging public opposition.<a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> Alençon was a Catholic and as his elder brother, Henry III, was childless, he was heir presumptive to the French throne. Elizabeth was past the age of childbearing and had no clear successor. If she died while married to him, her realms could fall under French control.<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> By comparing the match of Elizabeth and Alençon with the match of the Protestant <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_France" title="Henry IV of France">Henry of Navarre</a> and the Catholic <a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Valois" title="Margaret of Valois">Margaret of Valois</a>, which occurred in the week before the <a href="/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre" title="St. Bartholomew's Day massacre">St. Bartholomew's Day massacre</a>, the "most horrible spectacle" he had ever witnessed, Walsingham raised the spectre of religious riots in England in the event of the marriage proceeding.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> Elizabeth put up with his blunt, often unwelcome, advice,<a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> and acknowledged his strong beliefs in a letter,<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> in which she called him "her Moor [who] cannot change his colour".<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[c]</a> These were years of tension in policy towards France, with Walsingham sceptical of the unpredictable Henry III and distrustful of the English ambassador in Paris, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Stafford_(diplomat)" title="Edward Stafford (diplomat)">Edward Stafford</a>.<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> Stafford, who was compromised by his gambling debts, was in the pay of the Spanish and passed vital information to Spain.<a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a> Walsingham may have been aware of Stafford's duplicity, as he fed the ambassador false information, presumably in the hope of fooling or confusing the Spanish.<a href="#cite_note-66">[63]</a> The pro-English Regent of Scotland <a href="/wiki/James_Douglas,_4th_Earl_of_Morton" title="James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton">James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton</a>, whom Walsingham had supported, was overthrown in 1578.<a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a> After the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Raid_of_Ruthven" title="Raid of Ruthven">Raid of Ruthven</a>, another initiative to secure a pro-English government in Scotland,<a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a> Walsingham reluctantly visited the Scottish court in August 1583, knowing that his diplomatic mission was unlikely to succeed.<a href="#cite_note-69">[66]</a> <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James VI</a> dismissed Walsingham's advice on domestic policy saying he was an "absolute King" in Scotland.<a href="#cite_note-70">[67]</a> Walsingham replied with a discourse on the topic that "young princes were many times carried into great errors upon an opinion of the absoluteness of their royal authority and do not consider, that when they transgress the bounds and limits of the law, they leave to be kings and become tyrants."<a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/James_Melville_of_Halhill" title="James Melville of Halhill">James Melville of Halhill</a>, James VI intended to give Walsingham a valuable diamond ring as a parting gift, but <a href="/wiki/James_Stewart,_Earl_of_Arran" title="James Stewart, Earl of Arran">James Stewart, Earl of Arran</a>, who Walsingham had ignored, substituted a ring of crystal.<a href="#cite_note-72">[69]</a> A mutual defence pact was eventually agreed in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Berwick_(1586)" title="Treaty of Berwick (1586)">Treaty of Berwick of 1586</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[70]</a> Walsingham's cousin <a href="/wiki/Edward_Denny_(soldier)" title="Edward Denny (soldier)">Edward Denny</a> fought in Ireland during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Desmond_Rebellion" title="Second Desmond Rebellion">rebellion of the Earl of Desmond</a> and was one of the English settlers granted land in <a href="/wiki/Munster" title="Munster">Munster</a> confiscated from Desmond.<a href="#cite_note-74">[71]</a> Walsingham's stepson Christopher Carleill commanded the garrisons at <a href="/wiki/Coleraine" title="Coleraine">Coleraine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carrickfergus" title="Carrickfergus">Carrickfergus</a>.<a href="#cite_note-75">[72]</a> Walsingham thought Irish farmland was underdeveloped and hoped that <a href="/wiki/Plantation_(settlement_or_colony)" title="Plantation (settlement or colony)">plantation</a> would improve the productivity of estates.<a href="#cite_note-76">[73]</a> Tensions between the native Irish and the English settlers had lasting effects on the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland" title="History of Ireland">history of Ireland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-77">[74]</a> Walsingham's younger daughter Mary died aged seven in July 1580;<a href="#cite_note-78">[75]</a> his elder daughter, Frances, married Sir <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a> on 21 September 1583, despite the Queen's initial objections to the match (for unknown reasons) earlier in the year.<a href="#cite_note-79">[76]</a> As part of the marriage agreement, Walsingham agreed to pay £1,500 of Sidney's debts and gave his daughter and son-in-law the use of his manor at <a href="/wiki/Barn_Elms" title="Barn Elms">Barn Elms</a> in <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>. A granddaughter born in November 1585 was named Elizabeth after the Queen, who was one of two godparents along with Sidney's uncle, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Dudley,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester" title="Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester">Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> The following year, Sidney was killed fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands and Walsingham was faced with paying off more of Sidney's extensive debts.<a href="#cite_note-81">[78]</a> His widowed daughter gave birth, in a difficult delivery, to a second child shortly afterward, but the baby, a girl, was stillborn.<a href="#cite_note-82">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Espionage">Espionage</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Espionage">edit</a>]</div> Walsingham was driven by Protestant zeal to counter Catholicism,<a href="#cite_note-83">[80]</a> and sanctioned the use of torture against Catholic priests and suspected conspirators.<a href="#cite_note-84">[81]</a> <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Campion" title="Edmund Campion">Edmund Campion</a> was among those tortured and found guilty on the basis of extracted evidence; he was <a href="/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered" title="Hanged, drawn and quartered">hanged, drawn and quartered</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tyburn" title="Tyburn">Tyburn</a> in 1581.<a href="#cite_note-85">[82]</a> Walsingham could never forget the atrocities against Protestants he had witnessed in France during the Bartholomew's Day massacre and believed a similar slaughter would occur in England in the event of a Catholic resurgence.<a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a> Walsingham's brother-in-law <a href="/wiki/Robert_Beale_(diplomat)" title="Robert Beale (diplomat)">Robert Beale</a>, who was in Paris with Walsingham at the time of the massacre, encapsulated Walsingham's view: "I think it time and more than time for us to awake out of our dead sleep, and take heed lest like mischief as has already overwhelmed the brethren and neighbours in France and Flanders embrace us which be left in such sort as we shall not be able to escape."<a href="#cite_note-87">[84]</a> Walsingham tracked down Catholic priests in England and supposed conspirators by employing informers,<a href="#cite_note-88">[85]</a> and intercepting correspondence.<a href="#cite_note-89">[86]</a> Walsingham's staff in England included the <a href="/wiki/Cryptography" title="Cryptography">cryptographer</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Phelippes" title="Thomas Phelippes">Thomas Phelippes</a>, who was an expert in forgery and deciphering letters, and Arthur Gregory, who was skilled at breaking and repairing <a href="/wiki/Seal_(device)" class="mw-redirect" title="Seal (device)">seals</a> without detection.<a href="#cite_note-90">[87]</a> In May 1582, letters from the Spanish ambassador in England, <a href="/wiki/Bernardino_de_Mendoza" title="Bernardino de Mendoza">Bernardino de Mendoza</a>, to contacts in Scotland were found on a messenger by Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Forster_(soldier)" title="John Forster (soldier)">John Forster</a>, who forwarded them to Walsingham. The letters indicated a conspiracy among the Catholic powers to invade England and displace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots.<a href="#cite_note-91">[88]</a> By April 1583, Walsingham had a spy, identified as <a href="/wiki/Giordano_Bruno" title="Giordano Bruno">Giordano Bruno</a> by historian <a href="/wiki/John_Bossy" title="John Bossy">John Bossy</a>,<a href="#cite_note-94">[d]</a> deployed in the French embassy in London. Walsingham's contact reported that <a href="/wiki/Francis_Throckmorton" title="Francis Throckmorton">Francis Throckmorton</a>, a nephew of Walsingham's old friend <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Throckmorton" title="Nicholas Throckmorton">Nicholas Throckmorton</a>, had visited the ambassador, <a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Castelnau" title="Michel de Castelnau">Michel de Castelnau</a>.<a href="#cite_note-95">[91]</a> In November 1583, after six months of surveillance, Walsingham had Throckmorton arrested and then tortured to secure a confession<a href="#cite_note-96">[92]</a>—an admission of guilt that clearly implicated Mendoza.<a href="#cite_note-97">[93]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Throckmorton_plot" class="mw-redirect" title="Throckmorton plot">Throckmorton plot</a> called for an invasion of England along with a domestic uprising to liberate Mary, Queen of Scots, and depose Elizabeth.<a href="#cite_note-98">[94]</a> Throckmorton was executed in 1584 and Mendoza was expelled from England.<a href="#cite_note-99">[95]</a> Walsingham is often mentioned - negatively - in coded letters from Mary, Queen of Scots, to the French ambassador.<a href="#cite_note-100">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Entrapment_of_Mary,_Queen_of_Scots">Entrapment of Mary, Queen of Scots</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Entrapment of Mary, Queen of Scots">edit</a>]</div> After the assassination in mid-1584 of <a href="/wiki/William_the_Silent" title="William the Silent">William the Silent</a>, the leader of the Dutch revolt against Spain, English military intervention in the Low Countries was agreed in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Nonsuch" title="Treaty of Nonsuch">Treaties of Nonsuch</a> of 1585.<a href="#cite_note-101">[97]</a> The murder of William the Silent also reinforced fears for Queen Elizabeth's safety.<a href="#cite_note-102">[98]</a> Walsingham helped create the <a href="/wiki/Bond_of_Association" title="Bond of Association">Bond of Association</a>, the signatories of which promised to hunt down and kill anyone who conspired against Elizabeth. The <a href="/wiki/Safety_of_the_Queen,_etc._Act_1584" title="Safety of the Queen, etc. Act 1584">Act for the Surety of the Queen's Person</a>, passed by Parliament in March 1585, set up a legal process for trying any claimant to the throne implicated in plots against the Queen.<a href="#cite_note-103">[99]</a> The following month Mary, Queen of Scots, was placed in the strict custody of Sir <a href="/wiki/Amias_Paulet" title="Amias Paulet">Amias Paulet</a>, a friend of Walsingham.<a href="#cite_note-104">[100]</a> At Christmas, she was moved to a moated manor house at <a href="/wiki/Chartley_Castle" title="Chartley Castle">Chartley</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[101]</a> Walsingham instructed Paulet to open, read and pass to Mary unsealed any letters that she received, and to block any potential route for clandestine correspondence.<a href="#cite_note-106">[102]</a> In a successful attempt to entrap her, Walsingham arranged a single exception: a covert means for Mary's letters to be smuggled in and out of Chartley in a beer keg. Mary was misled into thinking these secret letters were secure, while in reality they were deciphered and read by Walsingham's agents.<a href="#cite_note-107">[103]</a> In July 1586, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Babington" title="Anthony Babington">Anthony Babington</a> wrote to Mary about an impending plot to free her and kill Elizabeth.<a href="#cite_note-108">[104]</a> Mary's reply was clearly encouraging and sanctioned <a href="/wiki/Babington_plot" class="mw-redirect" title="Babington plot">Babington's plans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-109">[105]</a> Walsingham had Babington and his associates rounded up; fourteen were executed in September 1586.<a href="#cite_note-110">[106]</a> In October, Mary was put on trial under the Act for the Surety of the Queen's Person in front of 36 commissioners, including Walsingham.<a href="#cite_note-111">[107]</a> During the presentation of evidence against her, Mary broke down and pointed accusingly at Walsingham saying, "all of this is the work of Monsieur de Walsingham for my destruction",<a href="#cite_note-112">[108]</a> to which he replied, "God is my witness that as a private person I have done nothing unworthy of an honest man, and as Secretary of State, nothing unbefitting my duty."<a href="#cite_note-113">[109]</a> Mary was found guilty and the warrant for her execution was drafted,<a href="#cite_note-114">[110]</a> but Elizabeth hesitated to sign it, despite pressure from Walsingham.<a href="#cite_note-115">[111]</a> Walsingham wrote to Paulet urging him to find "some way to shorten the life" of Mary to relieve Elizabeth of the burden,<a href="#cite_note-116">[112]</a> to which Paulet replied indignantly, "God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without law or warrant."<a href="#cite_note-117">[113]</a> Walsingham made arrangements for Mary's execution; Elizabeth signed the warrant on 1 February 1587 and entrusted it to <a href="/wiki/William_Davison_(diplomat)" title="William Davison (diplomat)">William Davison</a>, who had been appointed as junior Secretary of State in late September 1586. Davison passed the warrant to Cecil and a privy council convened by Cecil without Elizabeth's knowledge agreed to carry out the sentence as soon as was practical. Within a week, Mary was beheaded.<a href="#cite_note-118">[114]</a> On hearing of the execution, Elizabeth claimed not to have sanctioned the action and that she had not meant Davison to part with the warrant. Davison was arrested and imprisoned in the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a>. Walsingham's share of Elizabeth's displeasure was small because he was absent from court, at home ill, in the weeks just before and after the execution.<a href="#cite_note-119">[115]</a> Davison was eventually released in October 1588, on the orders of Cecil and Walsingham.<a href="#cite_note-120">[116]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish_Armada">Spanish Armada</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Spanish Armada">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elizabeth_I_(Armada_Portrait).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Portrait of Elizabeth I with view of English ships on left and destroyed Spanish ships on right" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg/220px-Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg/330px-Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg/440px-Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1248" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Famous portrait of Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada</figcaption></figure> From 1586, Walsingham received many dispatches from his agents in mercantile communities and foreign courts detailing Spanish preparations for an invasion of England.<a href="#cite_note-121">[117]</a> Walsingham's recruitment of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Standen_(spy)" title="Anthony Standen (spy)">Anthony Standen</a>, a friend of the Tuscan ambassador to Madrid, was an exceptional intelligence triumph and Standen's dispatches were deeply revealing.<a href="#cite_note-122">[118]</a> Walsingham worked to prepare England for a potential war with Spain, in particular by supervising the substantial rebuilding of <a href="/wiki/Dover_Harbour" class="mw-redirect" title="Dover Harbour">Dover Harbour</a>,<a href="#cite_note-123">[119]</a> and encouraging a more aggressive strategy. On Walsingham's instructions, the English ambassador in Turkey, <a href="/wiki/William_Harborne" title="William Harborne">William Harborne</a>, attempted unsuccessfully to persuade the Ottoman Sultan to attack Spanish possessions in the Mediterranean in the hope of distracting Spanish forces.<a href="#cite_note-124">[120]</a> Walsingham supported <a href="/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Francis Drake</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Singeing_the_King_of_Spain%27s_Beard" title="Singeing the King of Spain's Beard">raid of Cadiz in 1587</a>, which wrought havoc with Spanish logistics.<a href="#cite_note-125">[121]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a> sailed for England in July 1588. Walsingham received regular dispatches from the English naval forces,<a href="#cite_note-126">[122]</a> and raised his own troop of 260 men as part of the land defences.<a href="#cite_note-127">[123]</a> On 18 August 1588, after the dispersal of the armada, naval commander <a href="/wiki/Lord_Henry_Seymour_(naval_commander)" title="Lord Henry Seymour (naval commander)">Lord Henry Seymour</a> wrote to Walsingham, "you have fought more with your pen than many have in our English navy fought with their enemies".<a href="#cite_note-128">[124]</a> In foreign intelligence, Walsingham's extensive network of "intelligencers", who passed on general news as well as secrets, spanned Europe and the Mediterranean.<a href="#cite_note-network-129">[125]</a> While foreign intelligence was a normal part of the principal secretary's activities, Walsingham brought to it flair and ambition, and large sums of his own money.<a href="#cite_note-130">[126]</a> He cast his net more widely than others had done previously: expanding and exploiting links across the continent as well as in <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> and <a href="/wiki/Algiers" title="Algiers">Algiers</a>,<a href="#cite_note-network-129">[125]</a> and building and inserting contacts among Catholic exiles.<a href="#cite_note-131">[127]</a> Among his spies may have been the playwright <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a>;<a href="#cite_note-132">[128]</a> Marlowe was in France in the mid-1580s and was acquainted with Walsingham's kinsman <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walsingham_(literary_patron)" title="Thomas Walsingham (literary patron)">Thomas Walsingham</a>.<a href="#cite_note-133">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death and legacy">edit</a>]</div> From 1571 onwards, Walsingham complained of ill health and often retired to his country estate for periods of recuperation.<a href="#cite_note-134">[130]</a> He complained of "sundry <a href="/wiki/Carnosity" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnosity">carnosities</a>", pains in his head, stomach and back, and difficulty in passing urine.<a href="#cite_note-135">[131]</a> Suggested diagnoses include cancer,<a href="#cite_note-136">[132]</a> <a href="/wiki/Kidney_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Kidney stone">kidney stones</a>,<a href="#cite_note-137">[133]</a> urinary infection,<a href="#cite_note-138">[134]</a> and diabetes.<a href="#cite_note-139">[135]</a> He died on 6 April 1590, at his house in <a href="/wiki/Seething_Lane" title="Seething Lane">Seething Lane</a>.<a href="#cite_note-140">[136]</a> Historian <a href="/wiki/William_Camden" title="William Camden">William Camden</a> wrote that Walsingham died from "a carnosity growing intra testium tunicas [testicular cancer]".<a href="#cite_note-141">[137]</a> He was buried privately in a simple ceremony at 10 pm on the following day, beside his son-in-law, in <a href="/wiki/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="Old St Paul's Cathedral">Old St Paul's Cathedral</a>.<a href="#cite_note-142">[138]</a> The grave and monument were destroyed in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London" title="Great Fire of London">Great Fire of London</a> in 1666. His name appears on a modern monument in the crypt listing the important graves lost. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Family_of_Henry_VIII,_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Family group of the Tudors with the figures of War, Peace and Plenty" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Family_of_Henry_VIII%2C_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png/220px-Family_of_Henry_VIII%2C_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Family_of_Henry_VIII%2C_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png/330px-Family_of_Henry_VIII%2C_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Family_of_Henry_VIII%2C_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png/440px-Family_of_Henry_VIII%2C_an_Allegory_of_the_Tudor_Succession.png 2x" data-file-width="2340" data-file-height="1692" /></a><figcaption>An Allegory of the Tudor Succession was a gift from Elizabeth to Walsingham. The bottom of the picture is inscribed "The Queen to Walsingham this tablet sent; Mark of her people's and her own content."<a href="#cite_note-h244-62">[60]</a></figcaption></figure> In his will, dated 12 December 1589, Walsingham complained of "the greatness of my debts and the mean state [I] shall leave my wife and heirs in",<a href="#cite_note-h253-143">[139]</a> but the true state of his finances is unclear.<a href="#cite_note-h257-144">[140]</a> He received grants of land from the Queen, grants for the export of cloth and leases of customs in the northern and western ports. His primary residences, apart from the court, were in Seething Lane by the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a> (now the site of a Victorian office building called Walsingham House), at <a href="/wiki/Barn_Elms" title="Barn Elms">Barn Elms</a> in <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Odiham" title="Odiham">Odiham</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>. Nothing remains of any of his houses.<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> He spent much of his own money on espionage in the service of the Queen and the Protestant cause.<a href="#cite_note-145">[141]</a> In 1586, he funded a lectureship in theology at <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Puritanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritanism">Puritan</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Rainolds" title="John Rainolds">John Rainolds</a>.<a href="#cite_note-146">[142]</a> He had underwritten the debts of his son-in-law, Sir <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a>,<a href="#cite_note-147">[143]</a> had pursued the Sidney estate for recompense unsuccessfully and had carried out major land transactions in his later years. After his death, his friends reflected that poor bookkeeping had left him further in the Crown's debt than was fair. In 1611, the Crown's debts to him were calculated at over £48,000, but his debts to the Crown were calculated at over £43,000 and a judge, Sir <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(judge)" title="Julius Caesar (judge)">Julius Caesar</a>, ordered both sets of debts cancelled <a href="/wiki/Quid_pro_quo" title="Quid pro quo">quid pro quo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-h257-144">[140]</a> Walsingham's surviving daughter Frances received a £300 annuity,<a href="#cite_note-h253-143">[139]</a> and married the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_2nd_Earl_of_Essex" title="Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex">Earl of Essex</a>. Ursula, Lady Walsingham, continued to live at Barn Elms with a staff of servants until her death in 1602.<a href="#cite_note-148">[144]</a> Protestants lauded Walsingham as "a sound pillar of our commonwealth and chief patron of virtue, learning and chivalry".<a href="#cite_note-149">[145]</a> He was part of a Protestant intelligentsia that included <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Dee" title="John Dee">John Dee</a>: men who promoted an expansionist and nationalist English Renaissance.<a href="#cite_note-150">[146]</a> Spenser included a dedicatory sonnet to Walsingham in the <a href="/wiki/Faerie_Queene" class="mw-redirect" title="Faerie Queene">Faerie Queene</a>, likening him to <a href="/wiki/Maecenas" class="mw-redirect" title="Maecenas">Maecenas</a> who introduced <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> to the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>. After Walsingham's death, <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Davies" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Davies">Sir John Davies</a> composed an <a href="/wiki/Acrostic" title="Acrostic">acrostic</a> poem in his memory<a href="#cite_note-FriedmanFriedman2011-151">[147]</a> and Watson wrote an elegy, Meliboeus, in Latin.<a href="#cite_note-152">[148]</a> On the other hand, <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Persons" title="Robert Persons">Robert Persons</a> thought Walsingham "cruel and inhumane" in his persecution of Catholics.<a href="#cite_note-153">[149]</a> Catholic sources portray a ruthless, devious man driven by religious intolerance and an excessive love for intrigue.<a href="#cite_note-155">[e]</a> Walsingham attracts controversy still.<a href="#cite_note-156">[151]</a> Although he was ruthless, his opponents on the Catholic side were no less so; the treatment of prisoners and suspects by Tudor authorities was typical of European governments of the time.<a href="#cite_note-157">[152]</a> Walsingham's personal, as opposed to his public, character is elusive; his public papers were seized by the government while many of his private papers, which might have revealed much, were lost.<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> The fragments that do survive demonstrate his personal interest in gardening and falconry.<a href="#cite_note-158">[153]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portrayal_in_fiction">Portrayal in fiction</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Portrayal in fiction">edit</a>]</div> Fictional portrayals of Walsingham tend to follow Catholic interpretations, depicting him as sinister and Machiavellian.<a href="#cite_note-159">[154]</a> He features in conspiracy theories surrounding the death of <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a>,<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> whom he predeceased. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Nicholl_(author)" title="Charles Nicholl (author)">Charles Nicholl</a> examined (and rejected) such theories in The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (1992), which was used as a source by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Burgess" title="Anthony Burgess">Anthony Burgess</a> for his novel <a href="/wiki/A_Dead_Man_in_Deptford" title="A Dead Man in Deptford">A Dead Man in Deptford</a> (1993).<a href="#cite_note-160">[155]</a> The 1998 film <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_(film)" title="Elizabeth (film)">Elizabeth</a> gives considerable, although sometimes historically inaccurate, prominence to Walsingham (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Rush" title="Geoffrey Rush">Geoffrey Rush</a>). It fictionalizes him as irreligious and sexually ambiguous,<a href="#cite_note-adams-37">[35]</a> merges chronologically distant events,<a href="#cite_note-161">[156]</a> and inaccurately suggests that he murdered <a href="/wiki/Mary_of_Guise" title="Mary of Guise">Mary of Guise</a>.<a href="#cite_note-162">[157]</a> Rush reprised the role in the 2007 sequel, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth:_The_Golden_Age" title="Elizabeth: The Golden Age">Elizabeth: The Golden Age</a>. Both <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Murray_(actor)" title="Stephen Murray (actor)">Stephen Murray</a> in the 1971 <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_R" title="Elizabeth R">Elizabeth R</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Malahide" title="Patrick Malahide">Patrick Malahide</a> in the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Channel_Four" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel Four">Channel Four</a> miniseries <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_(2005_TV_series)" title="Elizabeth I (2005 TV series)">Elizabeth I</a> play him as a dour official.<a href="#cite_note-163">[158]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> Occasionally, the year of his birth is erroneously given as 1536, but he is named in his father's will of 1 March 1534.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> Discourse Touching the Pretended Match Between the Duke of Norfolk and the Queen of Scots: some biographers<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a> think he was the writer, but others<a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a> do not. </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a> The nickname "Moor" perhaps derived from his complexion<a href="#cite_note-h244-62">[60]</a> or his preference for plain black clothes.<a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a> Walsingham's spy signed his reports "Henry Fagot". In 1991, Professor John Bossy of the University of York argued in his work Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair that Fagot was Bruno. Some biographers<a href="#cite_note-92">[89]</a> accept Bossy's identification, but critics of Bossy<a href="#cite_note-93">[90]</a> think his case is circumstantial. </li> <li id="cite_note-155"><a href="#cite_ref-155">^</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Camden" title="William Camden">William Camden</a> wrote, "the Papists accused him as a cunning workman in complotting his business and alluring men into dangers, whilst he diligently searched out their hidden practices against religion, his prince and country."<a href="#cite_note-154">[150]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Citations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Hutchinson, p. 295 </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> Cooper, p. 5; Hutchinson, p. 295 </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> Hasler </li> <li id="cite_note-h28-5">^ <a href="#cite_ref-h28_5-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-h28_5-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-h28_5-2">c</a> Hutchinson, p. 28 </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> Cooper, p. 7; Hutchinson, p. 26; Wilson, p. 6 </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a> Hutchinson, p. 26; Wilson, pp. 7–12 </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> Cooper, p. 12; Hutchinson, p. 296; Wilson, pp. 5–6 </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> Cooper, p. 42; Hutchinson, pp. 30, 296; Wilson, pp. 12–13 </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFACADWLSN548F" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=WLSN548F&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50">"Walsingham, Francis (WLSN548F)"</a>. 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Retrieved 6 August 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Spenserians.cath.vt.edu&rft.atitle=Thomas+Watson%3A+An+Eglogue+upon+the+Death+of+Sir+Francis+Walsingham&rft.au=Thomas+Watson&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspenserians.cath.vt.edu%2FTextRecord.php%3Faction%3DGET%26textsid%3D104&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrancis+Walsingham" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-153"><a href="#cite_ref-153">^</a> Hutchinson, p. 63 </li> <li id="cite_note-154"><a href="#cite_ref-154">^</a> Quoted in Hutchinson, p. 260 </li> <li id="cite_note-156"><a href="#cite_ref-156">^</a> Cooper, pp. 130–131 </li> <li id="cite_note-157"><a href="#cite_ref-157">^</a> Hutchinson, pp. 261–264 </li> <li id="cite_note-158"><a href="#cite_ref-158">^</a> Adams et al.; Cooper, p. 44 </li> <li id="cite_note-159"><a href="#cite_ref-159">^</a> Cooper, p. 189; Wilson, p. 93 </li> <li id="cite_note-160"><a href="#cite_ref-160">^</a> Rozett, pp. 72–74 </li> <li id="cite_note-161"><a href="#cite_ref-161">^</a> Adams et al.; Spielvogel, p. 409 </li> <li id="cite_note-162"><a href="#cite_ref-162">^</a> Spielvogel, p. 409 </li> <li id="cite_note-163"><a href="#cite_ref-163">^</a> Latham, pp. 203, 240 </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Adams, Simon; Bryson, Alan; Leimon, Mitchell (2004). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28624">Walsingham, Sir Francis (c. 1532–1590)</a>", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online ed. May 2009, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F28624">10.1093/ref:odnb/28624</a> (subscription required)</li> <li>Cooper, John (2011). The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I. London: Faber & Faber. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-571-21826-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-571-21826-4">978-0-571-21826-4</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonia_Fraser" title="Antonia Fraser">Fraser, Antonia</a> (1994) [1969]. Mary Queen of Scots. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-297-17773-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-297-17773-7">0-297-17773-7</a>.</li> <li>Hasler, P. W. (1981). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/walsingham-francis-1532-90">Walsingham, Francis (c. 1532–90), of Scadbury and Foots Cray, Kent; Barn Elms, Surr. and Seething Lane, London</a>", History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hutchinson_(historian)" title="Robert Hutchinson (historian)">Hutchinson, Robert</a> (2007). Elizabeth's Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-297-84613-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-297-84613-0">978-0-297-84613-0</a>.</li> <li>Latham, Bethany (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=50zStEopKDIC&pg=PP1">Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals</a>. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-3718-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-3718-4">978-0-7864-3718-4</a>.</li> <li>Parker, Geoffrey (2000). The Grand Strategy of Philip II. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-08273-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-08273-9">978-0-300-08273-9</a>.</li> <li>Rozett, Martha Tuck (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0ayfHcNqt2QC&pg=PP1">Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction</a>. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7914-5551-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7914-5551-3">0-7914-5551-3</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_J._Spielvogel" title="Jackson J. Spielvogel">Spielvogel, Jackson J.</a> (2012). Western Civilization: Since 1500. Eighth edition. Boston: Wadsworth. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-111-34213-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-111-34213-5">978-1-111-34213-5</a>.</li> <li>Wilson, Derek (2007). Sir Francis Walsingham: A Courtier in an Age of Terror. New York: Carroll & Graf. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7867-2087-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7867-2087-3">978-0-7867-2087-3</a>.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bossy,_John" class="mw-redirect" title="Bossy, John">Bossy, John</a> (1991). Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-04993-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-04993-5">0-300-04993-5</a>.</li> <li>Budiansky, Stephen (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hermajestysspyma00budi">Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage</a>. New York: Viking. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-03426-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-670-03426-0">978-0-670-03426-0</a>.</li> <li>Haynes, Alan (2004). Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster & Statesman. Stroud, Glos.: Sutton. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7509-3122-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7509-3122-1">0-7509-3122-1</a>.</li> <li>Hutchinson, John (1892). <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Men_of_Kent_and_Kentishmen/Sir_Francis_Walsingham" class="extiw" title="s:Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Francis Walsingham">Sir Francis Walsingham</a>". Men of Kent and Kentishmen. Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. pp. 140–141.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLee1899" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Lee, Sidney (1899). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Walsingham,_Francis_(1530%3F-1590)">"Walsingham, Francis (1530?-1590)" </a>. <a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a>. Vol. 59. pp. 231–240.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Walsingham%2C+Francis+%281530%3F-1590%29&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.pages=231-240&rft.date=1899&rft.aulast=Lee&rft.aufirst=Sidney&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrancis+Walsingham" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPollard1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Albert_Pollard" title="Albert Pollard">Pollard, Albert Frederick</a> (1911). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Walsingham,_Sir_Francis">"Walsingham, Sir Francis" </a>. <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a>. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). pp. 293–295.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Walsingham%2C+Sir+Francis&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=293-295&rft.edition=11th&rft.date=1911&rft.aulast=Pollard&rft.aufirst=Albert+Frederick&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrancis+Walsingham" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Conyers_Read" title="Conyers Read">Read, Conyers</a> (1913). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/englishhistoric11edwagoog#page/n44/mode/2up">"Walsingham and Burghley in Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council"</a>. The English Historical Review. XXVIII (CIX): 34–58. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fehr%2FXXVIII.CIX.34">10.1093/ehr/XXVIII.CIX.34</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+English+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=Walsingham+and+Burghley+in+Queen+Elizabeth%27s+Privy+Council&rft.volume=XXVIII&rft.issue=CIX&rft.pages=34-58&rft.date=1913&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fehr%2FXXVIII.CIX.34&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Conyers&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fenglishhistoric11edwagoog%23page%2Fn44%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrancis+Walsingham" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Read, Conyers (1925). Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth. Oxford: Clarendon Press (an exhaustive three-volume biography that is still valuable despite its age). Via the Internet Archive: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrsecretarywalsi0000read/page/n5/mode/2up">Volume 1</a> (subscription required), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrsecretarywalsi02read">Volume 2</a> (subscription required), and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrsecretarywalsi0003read">Volume 3</a> (subscription required).</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Walsingham&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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