Overview

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada, provides fresh social, political and foreign policy insights from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time.

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Author:   Dr. Timothy Ashby
Publisher:   Scotland Street Press
Imprint:   Scotland Street Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.697kg
ISBN:  

9781910895597

ISBN 10:   1910895598
Pages:   429
Publication Date:   30 March 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction Prologue – ‘the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors’ Part One – Early Life Chapter I - Education Chapter II - Exile Chapter III – Return to an unhappy land Part Two – On Her Majesty’s Service Chapter IV – Walsingham’s Intelligencer Chapter V – The Queen’s vacillation Chapter VI – Low Countries reconnaissance operation Chapter VII - Purgatory in the Low Countries Chapter VIII – Brigands on the Rhine Part Three – Scotland Chapter IX - Anglo-Scottish animosity Chapter X – Walsingham’s failed diplomatic mission Chapter XI - Universal miscontent in the country Chapter XII – The Armada cometh Chapter XIII – Ashby’s ambassadorship to Scotland Chapter XIV – The approach of the Spaniards causes Ashby to make offers to the King Chapter XV – A necessary play of penitence Chapter XVI – ‘... the great ship was blown in the air’ Chapter XVII – Ashby reveals to James a plot against him by his own lairds Chapter XVIII - The lairds’ open insurrection Chapter XIX – Fowler’s defamation of Ashby Chapter XX - Ashby tarries in Edinburgh while the King seeks his bride Chapter XXI – Vindication Chapter XXII – A last plot foiled before death’s gloomy shade Appendix I - Sir Robert Naunton Appendix II - Dramatis Personae Bibliography Notes

Reviews

[A] fascinating, exciting, and at times all too familiar tale of political conspiracies, double agents, personal rivalries and the perennial quest, by states and by individuals, for power and control...Tim Ashby is to be commended on this excellent tribute to his distant relative, which is also an illuminating account of life in Tudor and Stuart times. -The Edinburgh Reporter

"""[A] fascinating, exciting, and at times all too familiar tale of political conspiracies, double agents, personal rivalries and the perennial quest, by states and by individuals, for power and control...Tim Ashby is to be commended on this excellent tribute to his distant relative, which is also an illuminating account of life in Tudor and Stuart times.""—The Edinburgh Reporter"

Author Information

Dr Timothy Ashby has held two Top Secret security clearances and served as a senior government official, lawyer and international businessman. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he is the author of five books, including the hardcover non-fiction work The Bear in the Back Yard: Moscow’s Caribbean Strategy and over 100 articles on history and international relations in Harvard International Review, RUSI Journal, US Naval Institute Proceedings, and Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 1984. He also published three historical mystery novels – Time Fall, Devil’s Den and In Shadowland.

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