Elizabeth Pierrepont

[4] Mary thanked her for a letter and a gift, and was going to give her a black gown with a "garniture" or trimmings for her to wear with it, ordered from London.

He told Henry Pierrepont's servant that they should have written to him first, and it was a shame that the young maiden was "nourished and brought up here in Popery".

[8] Pierrepont seems to have had a relationship with Mary's French secretary Claude Nau, and in April 1586 he sent a friend to discuss marriage with her father.

[13] In June, her father asked permission from Queen Elizabeth for his daughter to leave Mary's service, with a view to having her married.

Henry Pierrepont sent horses to fetch her from Chartley Castle, but Mary would not let her go, despite the arguments of her keeper Amias Paulet.

[16][17] In August 1586 Amias Paulet considered dismissing Pierrepont's maid and placed her in Mr Chetwynd's house at Ingestre.

The French diplomat Charles de Prunelé, Baron d'Esneval recorded speculation that the female prisoner alleged to be in the Tower was not Pierrepont, but Mary herself.