ABSTRACT
Sir Henry Lee traveled from Woodstock to attend the lavish funeral of his royal mistress on 28 April in his formal capacity as Master of the Armoury. To Queen Anne, Lee was the quintessential Elizabethan courtier, well practised at charming great ladies. Lee's appearance at the Garter feasts and processions at Windsor ceased after 1605, although he appeared at the Accession Day tournament in 1606 in an honorary capacity. Lee was still holding £55 of the Woodstock legacy money himself on loan on his death, and the debt was paid from his estate. Anne Vavasour is mentioned in all eight letters to Hickes, and Lee never neglected to send their joint love to Lady Hickes in the manner of an established married couple. Helen Hackett makes the telling point that the Latin phrases quoted were not necessarily a sign of Catholicism but were still in continual use by the Elizabethan church in the Book of Common Prayer.
