Dorothy Bradbelt

[7] She was also given lucrative rewards, including a lease of lands at Hardingstone,[8] and a licence to export red herrings from London and Ipswich and import white fish.

[9] In 1562, she and Kat Ashley were censured and briefly held for taking part in a scheme for Elizabeth to marry Eric XIV of Sweden promoted by a former usher and jewelry salesman John Dymocke.

[10] They wrote a joint letter to a Swedish politician Nicholas Guildenstern, hoping for the best outcome, hinting at the marriage,[11] which was seized by William Cecil.

In 1563, a craftsmen, John Grene, made a cage for the parrot of "tynker" wire and pewter pots for the pets' water which were delivered to Dorothy.

[17] The document is a lease of the royal manors of Hallow and Blockley to John Habington and Dorothy in return for flour to make the queen's manchet bread when she was in Worcestershire.

[22] As a wedding gift, Elizabeth gave Dorothy Bradbelt a Flanders gown of black velvet with satin made by her tailor Walter Fyshe.

[24] An inventory of Elizabeth I mentions a set of hooks of silver gilt to fasten upon hangings of the queen's privy chamber.

[29] The historian Treadway Russell Nash mentions a herald's funeral certificate or description for John Habington's wife, who was a gentlewoman of the privy-chamber of Elizabeth in 1557, and was buried at Hindlip at the queen's expense.

[31] John Habington's children included: Edward and Thomas Abington were involved in the Babington Plot to replace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots.