On 23 March 1596, Sir Henry Unton, the eldest surviving son of the late Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick, died.

On This Day (25 February) in 1601, 35 year-old Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was executed at the Tower of London.

On 16 February 1587, Elizabethan courtier, soldier and poet Sir Philip Sidney was interred at 'Old' St Paul's Cathedral.

On 08 February 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle, after being found guilty of high treason.

On This Day (07 January) in 1619, Elizabethan portrait miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard, was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields...

On This Day (25 Dec) in 1634, 91 year old Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester, died at her home in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire.

On This Day (10 Nov) in 1565, Robert Devereux, later the 2nd Earl of Essex, was born in Netherwood, Hertfordshire.

In the early hours of 05 Nov 1605, a search was completed of a vault, underneath the House of Lords within the Palace of Westminster.

On This Day (03 Nov) in 1592, Sir John Perrot, Privy Councillor and Elizabeth I's former Lord Deputy of Ireland died in the Tower of London.

Thomas Blount of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, was the father of Sir Christopher Blount (c.1555-1601).

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester had a complex relationship with the Queen of England, Elizabeth I, throughout most of her reign.

Sir Christopher Blount, born c.1555, was the second son of Thomas Blount of Kidderminster (c.1525-1568) and his wife Margery Poley.