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
- 15 Majority and Marriage
- 16 Country Muses
- 17 Country Matters
- 18 Murder
- 19 Mayhem
- 20 Wanderlust
- 21 Desperadoes
- 22 Flight
- 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
- 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
18 - Murder
from Part III - Emancipation 1571–1574
- 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
- 15 Majority and Marriage
- 16 Country Muses
- 17 Country Matters
- 18 Murder
- 19 Mayhem
- 20 Wanderlust
- 21 Desperadoes
- 22 Flight
- 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
- 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
On 1 January 1573 Lady Mary Vere received a New Year's gift from the Queen. Now about eighteen, Lady Mary was beginning to be noticed at court.
By 3 February the Privy Council had taken up residence at Greenwich. On Wednesday 18 March, Queen and Court arrived for the Maundy Thursday celebration. Before the month was out Burghley dispatched a shattering message to Walsingham in Paris:
Here hath been a murther committed about Shooters-hill, somewhat to the reproof of this place; and herein I have used such care, as the party is taken, being one Brown an Irish man, who had served, and is put from my Lord of Oxfords seruice.
On 25 March, the Wednesday after Easter, George Brown murdered George Saunders, a London merchant, on Shooters-hill near Greenwich. Brown was in fact a Yorkshireman who had seen service in Ireland. On 26 March the Privy Council took action:
A letter to the Mayor of London to cause diligent inquirie to be made for a murdre donne the day before upon one Saunders, an honest merchant man, one Browne being vehemently suspected.
On 30 March the Council took up the subject once more:
A warraunt to the Tresorer of the Chamber for vli [=£5] to the Mayor of Rochester for bringing of George Browne, prisoner, to the Coourte for the murdering of Saunders, a merchant of London.
By now Brown had been captured. Again on 1 April:
A letter to the Knight Mershall to deliver unto the Lieutenant of the Towre George Browne, to be furder ordered as he shall receve from the Lords of the Counsell.
A letter to the Lieutenant to receve him and to kepe him in suer custodie, without havinge conference with any, saving the Master of the Rolles, Mr. Justice Sowthcote and Manwoode, or any two of them, whom they have appointed to examine him, willing him to assiste them by bringing or putting him to the racke or otherwise.
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- Monstrous AdversaryThe Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, pp. 89 - 91Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003