E.

East India Company, 76.

— governor of. See Rumney, Sir W.

East Indies, 3, 452, 457.

Spanish fleet of, 264.

East Meon, 31.

Eaton, —, his ships, 52.

Ebraim. See Ibrahim.

Eckius, his dying words, 141.

Edgcumbe :

B., signature of, 419.

Piers or Peter, letters from, 14, 198, 206.

Edinburgh, 18, 223, 416.

letter dated at, 14.

Holyrood House Palace, 18, 416.

— letters dated at, 96, 153, 224.

Edmondes (Edmunds) :

Thomas, English envoy in France, 1, 2, 151, 216, 333, 387, 428, 429, 456, 465, 487, 511.

— letters from, 20, 43.

William, 55.

Edmonds, Captain, a Scotch soldier in the Low Countries, 512.

Edmund Crookback, king of Sicily, brother of Edward I. of England, claims to the crowns of England and Portugal derived from, 252.

Edwardes, Ric., oil-merchant, 18.

Egerton, Sir Thomas, Master of the Rolls 191, 222, 238, 246, 248, 524, 527, 534.

— letters from, 241, 362.

— signature of, 243, 244.

Eglisfield, Francis, 83.

Egmont, Count Amovall d', 258, 272, 513.

— his sister, wife of Count Solmes, 258, 513.

Egypt, 50.

Egyptians or Gipsies, 83.

Elbing, 16, 17.

Ellerton, letters dated at, 260.

Elliott, —, a pirate, 519, 520.

Ellis :

Mr., 532, 533.

Edward, 426.

Elmes, Captain, 523.

Elten, in Gelderland, 314.

Elvetham, letter dated at, 187.

Ely :

prior and chapter of (temp. Hen. VIII.), 64.

bishopric of, suit for lands of, 64.

isle of, 64.

Embden (Emden), in Hanover 231, 513.

revolts against the Count of Friesland, 163, 181, 212, 258, 273, 380, 513.

sends a deputy to the States General, 181.

deputies sent to, 212.

Count of. See Friesland.

Emmerich, in Cleves, 314.

Emperor, the (Rudolph II.) and the States of the Empire, 11, 12, 13, 45, 95, 97, 185, 189, 190 bis, 194, 195, 208, 212, 260, 262, 272, 331, 378, 392, 399, 409, 453, 471, 474, 491, 495, 522.

— sending ambassadors to Flanders and the United Provinces, 97, 102.

Ems, the German river, 258.

Enchusen. See Enkhuzen.

Enfield, 407, 408.

Balstockes in, 408.

Englebie. See Ingleby.

Englishmen abroad, 196, 300, 305.

Enkhuzen (Enchusen), in Holland, 305.

Enschede, in Overyssel, 420.

Epernon (Espernon, Esparnon, Deparnone, Depernon), Duke of, 44, 190, 292, 308, 316, 378, 386, 402, 434, 472.

Epping, 309.

Erington :

M., 477.

Nicholas, 240.

Ernelie Mr., Burghley's servant, 326.

Ernestus of Austria, Archduke, brother of the Emperor, governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1594–5), 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 36, 45, 97, 103, 121, 133, 140, 167, 213, 272, 328, 340.

— letter from, 34.

— letter to 13.

— his father, the Emperor Maximilian, q.v.

— his grandfather, the Emperor Ferdinand, q.v.

— his death (21 February 1595), 120.

— his corpse, 195.

Ernestus, Count. See Nassau.

Errington, Matthew, 460.

Erroll :

(Arroll, Arrold), Francis Hay, Earl of, 4, 6, 10, 14, 17, 124, 130, 244.

Countess of, 14.

Ersewell, Chamberlaines manor, in Suffolk, 279.

Escort, Edward, 537.

Eseilles, in France, 530.

Esparnon. See Epernon.

Essex, 394.

muster masters of (named), 523.

musters in, 262, 295.

lieutenant of. See Burghley, Lord.

Essex, Earl of, 16, 40, 42 (“the Earl”), 49, 61, 97, 108, 121, 131, 149, 198, 227, 253, 296 (brother of Lady Rich), 303, 338, 354, 370, 388, 400, 410, 423, 426, 445, 454, 455, 472, 493, 516, 527, 530, 535, 536.

— letters from, 25, 76, 127, 280, 287, 291, 413, 414, 485.

— letters to, 3, 20, 21, 36, 39, 47, 77, 79, 97, 102, 104, 105, 107, 110, 113, 114, 115, 121, 122, 129, 130, 132, 139, 144, 146, 147, 150, 154, 155, 156, 159, 163, 167, 169, 178, 182, 183, 192, 195, 196, 197, 212, 216, 218, 237, 245, 254, 257, 259, 260, 266, 271, 273, 274, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 291, 292, 294, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 303, 305, 306, 308, 313, 314, 315, 317, 318, 319, 321, 322, 325, 326, 331, 332, 333, 337, 338, 340, 341, 344, 348, 349, 357, 360, 362, 363, 366, 371, 372, 375, 377, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384, 385, 387, 389, 390, 392, 393, 397, 400, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 408, 414, 416, 417, 420, 427, 428, 429, 430, 434, 437, 438, 439, 440, 442, 443, 450, 455, 456, 460, 464, 465, 473, 481, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 490, 492, 494, 496, 497, 499, 500, 501, 502, 506, 507, 510, 511, 512, 513, 524, 529, 530, 532.

— handwriting of, 76, 278, 404.

— his secretary. See Reynolds, E.

— a servant arrested, 132.

— his influence with the Queen, 189.

— intended expedition of, 155, 156, 198, 212.

— his minority and estate, 218, 267.

— a secretary of, 500.

Countess of, 61.

Walter, late earl of, 267.

Essex :

Edward, 280.

William, the Queen's ward, petition of, 280.

Estrees, Mons. d', lieutenant general for the government of Paris and the Isle of France, letter to, 500.

Eton College, letters dated at, 8, 49, 79, 84.

Eton, —, Roger Portington's man, 255.

Etone, Owen, an Englishman in Spain, 357.

Eu, in France, Jesuit college at, 125.

Euensen, —, 140.

Eure (Ewrye, Evre), Ralph, lord, 415, 430, 431, 493.

— letter from, 303.

Evans :

John, 312.

Richard, a Dutchman, tailor, 341, 342 bis, 343, 346.

— examination of, 343.

Evre. See Eure.

Evreux, M. d'. See Du Perron.

Ewins, or Ewens :

Mr., 436.

John, escheator of Somerset, 217, 218.

Matthew, baron of the Exchequer, 217.

— letter from, 326.

— his wife, 326.

Ewrye. See Eure.

Excellency, his. See Nassau, Count Maurice of.

Exchequer :

Court of, 49, 67, 106, 151, 214, 240, 526.

— Chancellor of, 203.

— treasurer of, 70.

Exeter, 162, 387, 418, 433, 469, 489.

letter dated at, 34, 285,

Cathedral, Dean of, 33, 34.

— Chapter of, 34.

Exeter :

bishopric of, 18, 33, 34, 52, 487.

bishop of (1595). See Babington, Gervaise.

Exmouth, customs return, 393.