Turncoats and Opportunists
Alexandra Walsham: Francis Walsingham, 5 July 2012
The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,978 0 571 21827 1 Show More
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,
“... Highlighting Walsingham’s friendships with the mathematician and astrologer John Dee and with Richard Hakluyt (who dedicated Principall Navigations to him), Cooper also investigates his links with the efforts of his stepson Christopher Carleill to create a colony on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina in 1586. Carleill’s 1583 Discourse upon ... ”