175:"after Her Majesty was most happily delivered of the then Lord the Prince ... at which time in acknowledgement of Standen's services, it pleased the King by the Queen's appointment to honour him with the order of knighthood, as also it pleased Her Majesty, some days after the childbirth to cause the knight to be called into her bedchamber, where the infant Prince laid asleep, a cross of diamonds fixed on his breast, upon this cross Her Majesty commanded the knight to lay his hand, to whom it her pleasure herself to give the oath of fidelity."
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He obtained a licence to travel in July 1605 from the king. In March 1606 he was in Rome and visited the
Venetian ambassador Agostino Nani. He explained that he had been imprisoned in England for brininging rosaries and religious objects to Anne of Denmark, and she had interceded for his release. He
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if any false informer have presumed, out of their own vanity, to describe the Queen's minde as if she did believe in the Romish religion, he shall take his princely word that he is wronged and she abused; for although when she was in
Scotland she mysliked many of those precise opinions which were
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that "the Queene warned from dealing in Cath: causes, and she ys very assyduous at sermons, so that I am in a stagger what shall become of my tokens", meaning his efforts would not be successful. He hoped the queen would become
Catholic, "doubtless and reconciled", perhaps by the means of
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sailed from
Plymouth on 21 May 1596 for Africa with five ships, with the financial support of the Earl of Essex, but had hoped to command a larger fleet and was cheated of his ambition and like others "notably cut-throated and consumed".
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February 1604, Sir William Broune heard that Standen was intended to bring Anne of Denmark a message of assurance in her religion, and that she would then try to convert King James. Villeroy and the French ambassador in London,
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of the likely "association" of Mary and James, by which the captive queen would be returned to
Scotland. He would like the portrait of the king for the Grand Duke. Standen wondered if the duke's daughter
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University Library, 'Some parte of the talke between the late king of Scotland my sonne and me, therle of Lennox ryding between Dondasse and Lythkoo', Lennox narrative, CUL 3434 Oo. VII. 57.
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came to
Edinburgh to congratulate Mary on the birth, and refused to speak to Standen. In July, William Rogers offered to capture the two Standens and another English Catholic,
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Standen's activities. Standen was released from the Tower in August 1604 after Balfour's return, according to the Venetian ambassador Nicolò Molin.
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Standen wrote that Mary, Queen of Scots, declared he was the first
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Duchess of Tuscany on behalf of her servant Standen who was travelling in Italy for reasons of conscience and religion. He was still in Rome in 1615.
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Some of the beads and other items intended for Anne of Denmark were given to the Papal nuncio in Paris to be returned, according to a letter of
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mentioned that Standen was too old to be a "gallant suitor" to a rich widow Mrs Shelley in February 1598. Standen's suit was favoured by
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982:'Once a Dane, Always a Dane? Queen Anna of Denmark’s Foreign Relations and Intercessions as a Queen Consort of Scotland and England',
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landing munitions for Mary sent from France. An adverse wind brought him within range of the cannon of the fortress isle of
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mayntayned by most of those churches, yet for the matter of her fayth, she was never tyed to the Romish assertions
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to the English throne in Florence and Venice. He arrived in Venice in August with the King's letter for the
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Standen went to Rome to collect altar ornaments and beads intended for
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preferred another candidate, Sir Thomas Smith who he had knighted at
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a portrait of King James, and the Doge had a larger version made.
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would be a suitable bride for James. On the same day he wrote to
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Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare's England
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wished the ship had been blown back to England with Standen.
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Antony Standen, The National Archives: Secrets & Spies
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425:The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
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