Marmaduke Darrell

[1] Darrell kept an account of the expenses of keeping Mary, Queen of Scots and her household at Tutbury Castle in 1585–6, totalling £3440-11s-8d.

[2] With Brian Cave, he set out a "diet" or budget for Mary, outlining the food required for her household and its cost.

[3] He attended Mary's execution at Fotheringhay Castle and wrote to a cousin, William Darrell at Littlecote, describing the event, "she her selfe endured it (as wee must all truely saye that were eye witnesses) with great courage, and shewe of magnanimitye".

[5] The leather glove embroidered with coloured silks and silver thread, lined with crimson satin, is preserved at Saffron Walden Museum.

He was to convey a number of courtiers and a group of ladies in waiting to meet her at Berwick and pay some of expenses of her journey to London.