Christopher Marlowe or Kit Marlowe...
was he saved at Deptford
by the Lord High Admiral, Lord Howard of Effingham?

Was there a cover-up or conspiracy at Deptford?
Did it involve top courtiers or lords?

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A little-known fact is that the Lord Admiral,
Lord Howard of Effingham,
was closely connected by family
to many important men and women...
some of whom are already
suspected of involvement
in the Marlowe mystery
or a possible Shakespeare authorship
cover-up.


It must be remembered that
family links and relationships
were VERY important
in the world of the Elizabethans.


Family trees will be given
on another page.


Here I shall present
some of the most important links.


First among them,
is the link between
the Lord Admiral
and the families of
Stanley, Earl of Derby,
and de Vere, Earl of Oxford.

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Lord Oxford and Lord Derby

There are three links here

1. Edward de Vere, Lord Oxford, had a daughter
Lady Susan de Vere
who married William Stanley, Lord Derby.

2. In an earlier generation,
the Lord Admiral's father,
the 1st Baron Howard of Effingham,
had a sister Dorothy
who married
Edward Stanley ,
Earl of Derby,
and a sister Anne,
who married
John de Vere,
14th Earl of Oxford.

3. The Lord High Admiral
is the first cousin of
Henry, Earl of Surrey,
who married
Frances de Vere.



This links the Admiral very closely
to the families of the two Earls.


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Ferdinando Strange, and the Lord Strange's Men

Not only did the Lord Admiral
have a drama company
the Lord Admiral's Men,

but so also did
Ferdinando, Lord Strange,
whose company,
the Lord Strange's Men,
like the Admiral's Men,
were performing the plays
of Kit Marlowe.


Lord Strange
was the son of
the Earl of Derby,
and thus, as we have seen,
a VERY close family connection to
the Lord High Admiral.

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The Queen

That VERY important person,
the Queen,
is a VERY close family link
to the Admiral
AND to Lord Strange,
and the Earls of Derby.

The Queen's mother
Anne Boleyn,
is the daughter of
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire
and Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of
Thomas Howard,
2nd Duke of Norfolk.


This is most interesting,
as the very same
Duke of Norfolk,
with his other wife,
was the father of
William Howard,
1st Baron Howard of Effingham,
who just happens of course
to be the Admiral's father!


Thus, the Queen's mother
is the first cousin
to the Admiral...
a VERY close link indeed!

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Lord Hunsdon, Baron Carey

And here we find yet another person
with a VERY close link
to
1. the Queen
2. the Admiral
3. the world of playwrights...

.....
for he was the Lord Chamberlain
and he too had a
drama company the Lord Chamberlain's men
who performed the works of Shakespeare
for which they are renowned.


"The Lord Chamberlain's Men

The company was originally formed under the patronage of Lord Strange, but when he died in 1594, the players found a patron in Henry Carey, the Lord Chamberlain.*

The Lord Chamberlain

Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon, was Queen Elizabeth's cousin through his mother, Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain from 1585 to 1596, he was an officer of the Privy Council, in charge of Her Majesty's indoor entertainment. It was through this office that the Privy Council exerted control over the theatres and protected them from Puritan attacks.

When he died in 1596, his son, George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon and Lord Chamberlain, took over as patron until 1603."

http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLTnoframes/stage/chamberlainsmen.html


The Admiral
is the first cousin to
Mary Boleyn
the mother of
Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain.


An interesting link
between the families in the story
is that Ferdinando Strange's wife
Alice Spenser of Althorpe,
a relative of the poet
Edmund Spenser,
is the sister of
Lady Elizabeth Carey.

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Here we have a network of families
who link to
the Queen,
to Oxford and Derby,
and hence the Shakespeare mystery,
to the world of plays and drama,
and hence to Kit Marlowe...
... and to Eleanor Bull,
in whose home
Kit Marlowe met a
mysterious fate...


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The third page will be coming soon!


third page...
how does Eleanor Bull appear in this...
and who is Blanche Parry?


page one, the first page of the story


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(in the extracts quoted from books and websites, the italics are mine)

(written originally by lyra, edited and rewritten)