BC—Berkeley Castle Muniment Room
BFC—Bacon Frank Collection at the Sheffield Archives
BHO—British History Online
CAMDEN—Annales
CAREY—Sir George Carey’s letter to his wife Elizabeth announcing and discussing the death of Ferdinando Stanley. A copy of the original manuscript is in the Gloucester County Record Office, MS MF 1161, Letter Book 2, no. 12.
Carey-Egerton-Leigh—Talbot Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, where it is catalogued as MS. 3199j 713-14-15. Also referred to herein as “Touching …”
BL—British Library
BODL—Bodleian Library
CCALSS—Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service
CRS—Catholic Record Society publications
CSP Dom—Calendar of State Papers Domestic
CSP Rome—Calendar of State Papers for Rome
DHB—Derby Household Books
E of D—The Earls of Derby and the Verse Writers and Poets of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
EKC ES—E. K. Chambers’ Elizabethan Stage
EKC SG—E. K. Chambers’ Shakespearean Gleanings
EKC L—E. K. Chambers’ Life of Sir Henry Lee
EKC S—E. K. Chambers’ Sources for a Life of Shakespeare
ESTC—English Short-Title Catalogue
GCRO—Gloucester County Record Office
GOLBORNE—John Golborne’s official report of the death of Ferdinando Stanley: “A True Report …” Berkeley Castle Muniment Room MS. SL II, fol. 79
HATFIELD—Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. Marquess of Salisbury, vols. 4, 5, 12, and 13
HMC—Historical Manuscripts Commission
HMSO—Her Majesty’s Stationers Office