Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury

Anthony Stafford , for his Niobe (a work on gentility, morality, and the Virgin Mary), wrote a flattering, hyperbolic dedication to LAC , which was quickly and very efficiently suppressed.

Letters survive at Penshurst that MH wrote to her sister- and brother-in-law Barbara Sidney, née Gamage and Robert Sidney (parents of Lady Mary Wroth ). She wrote to Sir Robert Cecil about her fears and...