The Other Tudors by Philippa Jones

Author:Philippa Jones [Jones, Philippa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: He Restores My Soul
ISBN: 9781780090764
Publisher: New Holland Publishers UK
Published: 2011-05-20T12:00:00+00:00

Sir John’s gift for making enemies was not helped by foolish actions on behalf of the families of his officers. In November, Sir Nicholas White reported to Burghley of a disagreement between Sir John and the Marshall, Sir Nicholas Bagenall. Bagenall was furious about the arrest of his son, Dudley, for failing to appear on the Lord Deputy’s summons to answer a complaint, and for beating the party that delivered the summons.

Sir Nicholas Bagenall, still smarting from his son’s arrest, wrote a scathing letter in December, stating that everyone was dissatisfied with Sir John, that his supporters were villains and that he treated his own Crown officers badly, calling them ‘beggars, squibs, puppies’. He finished his letter by claiming that, should there be an invasion, the troops hated Sir John so much that they would refuse to fight under him.

Loftus, as ever, was there at Sir Nicholas’s side. He sent a supporting missive stating that Sir John still acted against him when he could, so much so that Loftus was in fear for his life. He claimed that the Council was being ignored and if a case was brought before them, ‘his Lordship’s common answer is this, with great fury, “What tellest thou me of the Council?” “What care I for the Council?”, “They are all of them, but a sort of beggars and squibs, puppies, dogs, dunghill churls – yea, even the proudest of them come hither with their hose patched on the heels”.’ A third letter, in the same vein, came from Sir Geoffrey Fenton, although rather primly he declined to repeat the names that the Lord Deputy had used towards his colleagues.21

Sir John was aware that his enemies were amassing against him. He wrote to the new secretary to the Council, William Davison:

‘I am most glad to learn that her Majesty hath chosen you to be one of her principal secretaries … There was never any Governor here, that held my place, but was subject to malicious tongues; I pray you therefore if any man say ought of me there … let him set it down in writing and set his hand to it, for wind hath more hurt me, delivered in corners, than matter.’

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