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SONNET 63
General Notes
’63-64—Leic. position gradually changes
’03 – her death – James on throne
’63 Council of Trent ends
’63 Book of Martyrs—John Foxe
Tho. Cecil returns ’63
I believe this is a personal unit (+ most important of all[)]
Midway through sonnets + here is heart
Implies subterfuge of hiding someone (offspring) to save them from inherited dangers
Lines 7-8: heart of sonnets
Line 14
Green: = Irish color?

SONNET 64
General Notes
Leic. suggested as husb. for Mary
Birth of Sh[akespeare] -- + Marlowe + Galileo
64 – Tho Cecil m[arried] Lord Latimer’s d[aughter]
Hungry ocean = Engl.
King of sh[ips] = Sp[ain]
Prophecies of doom for 88]]>

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SONNET 65
General Notes
S[hakespeare] adapted his[orical] sources to makes comment on contemp[orary events]. So he adapts St. to apply to contemp. events—Cissex[?]
Darley is Henry Stewart
July 29, ’65 marriage of Mary [Stuart] and Darnley
St sounds in these 2 + code couplets
’66 – Parl. mts. Sphs[?] freely on q of succession (not for Q. Sc. but presumably for Cath. Grey [sister of Lady Jane Grey and potential successor to Elizabeth]). Q. reference to [illegible]. Paul Wentworth questioned her right to limit debts.
Line 14
Black ink: all of these are black stories in black ink

SONNET 66
General Notes
Essex is born into father’s debts
Treason à Dr. Lopez – poison plot 1594
Raleigh is Capt. of the Guard
March ’66 – Murder of Riccio
June – Birth of James (gossip—Riccio’s child)
Eliz is 66 in 1599
Essex was born in 66[;] James also
1566 Arthur Golding trans. Ovid’s Metamorpheses
Three preceding poems included “word,” “hand.” One (63) has “drained his blood,” “cruel knife,” “cut” and “these black lines” “still green”
64—has “defaced” “proud cast” “mortal rage” “This thought is as a death”
65-has “sad” “power” “rage” “plea” “wrackful” “bathing” “gates of steel” “spoil of beauty” “black ink”]]>

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SONNET 67
General Notes
Fed. ’67—Murder of Darnley (he had smallpox Jan.)
Apr.—Bothwell kidnaps May
’67-Alva prosec. Prob[ably] in Netherlands
Could be metaphor from St. to Essex
Apr. 24—abduction of May—marriage Mary[May?] (Both[well])
July 67 James VI crowned
Mary (’68) abdicates, comes to Engl.
Disillusionment but aware of heroism (former times)
Line 1
Wherefore: Hereford

SONNET 68
General Notes
1568—Philip II executes his son
68 = Catherine Grey dies in childbirth
’68 Mary escapes from Loch Leven; goes to Engl[;] Soon imprisoned in Carlisle
E. sent pkg of rags to Mary who had asked for suitable ornaments at (Eng castle – Carlyle)
Line 8
Gay: Fotherin Gay? (Mary’s wig—execution? Place of—Confined—when?)
Line 10
True: Truth = Loyalty[;] unadorned by false (cosmetics, painting)]]>

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SONNET 69
General Notes
’69—Sp. (+Alva) the enemy
Book of Commonplaces—Praise of Henry (changes script[?] as Cath. H. wed)
69—North Reb. with Norfolk a [illegible]. He is sent to Tower, Oct.
’69 shift of power over succession question jeopardizes Cecil’s position
May 16—1568—Mary goes to England
’68 or ’9: Assass. of Regent Moray by Hamiltons—“soiled life” warning letter from E to M [Moray was the half brother of Mary Stuart, and served as regent when her toddler son James VI inherited the throne of Scotland following her abdication.]
68—queen visits Dr. Dee—see his magic “glass”
Line 6
Give thee so thine own: phrase from Cecil
Line 9
Look into the beauty of thy mind: Essex phrase

SONNET 70
’70—entire navy mobilized (for 1st time) but no fighting
E. issues decl. of relig. leniency if law obeyed
’70 Earl of Moray assass. _ Mary [Stuart, former queen of Scotland] rejoices
Victor: code name for James]]>

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Sonnet 7
Overall Notes:
Cecil called “victrix orientis” [Latin: victrix is the feminine form of the word for champion or victor; orientis means "of the east"]
’07 Anne C.[?] born[.] Her father is Earl of Wiltshire
7 – Number 7 is Virgin, sign of Minerva + Pallas, the moon goddess

Line 1:
Lo: Marlowe symbol
Line 2
Eye: eyes = Leicester

Sonnet 8
Overall Notes:
’08 Mary Tudor m. (by proxy) to Archduke Charles Sidney – theorist on “music”
8 = Vulean[?] – Symbol of muse of spheres
Will Somers was court fool and confidante of Henry VIII – supposedly had[?] joined court 1525 – James Hil[?] was chief singer]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

SONNET 71
General Notes
’72 – May? Robert Bell was spkr in Parl. against Mary—a person whom many thought law could not touch
’71-first clues of Ridolfi Plot (would have [illegible] for[eign] aid to M) [plot to overthrow E in favor of M]
Bradley thinks 71-74 “the most melancholy,” reminiscent of the voice of Hamlet.
Deepest love poem—most personal—sincere
Line 2
Bell: Robert Bell

SONNET 72
General Notes
1572 Anjou is suitor + Alencon proposed
’72—Revolt of Netherlands; beginning of Dutch wars
’72—June—Norfolk exec
’72 Mar[?] dies; his bro.—Ershire[?]—becomes guardian to J
Norfolk sentences to hang (but beheaded)
’72 Morton becomes Regent (to James)
Line 9
Lest (also lost and lest in Lines 1 and 5 respectively): Leichester? Conv. with Nor[folk].
Line 12: ’72—James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, becomes Scottish regent
Line 14
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SONNET 73
General Notes
Eliz. would be forty in ’73 = 40 winters besiege [quotation from sonnet] #2
’73-75—Walter Devereux in Ireland, dies ’75
b. J[ohn] Donne 1573(?)
Renewal of marriage consid.
1573 Hatton ill—Queen sends her physician to care for him
Could this be Mary Q. Sc.—’87—dies 1591[.] In my end is my beginning? [Motto embroidered by Mary shortly before her death.]
Line 10
The ashes of his youth: Aschen—was E’s tutor in youth!

SONNET 74
Bast.[?] son of Leic. born
Check on year Cecil becomes Burleigh Ess (about now? early 70’s)
’74-b. of Joseph Hall, satirist
’74-’75—Persec. Of Cath. + Anabaptists in Eng.
Almost as if written by S. for someone to give to E.—like Leicester, Oxford, Burleigh, maybe Essex]]>

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SONNET 75
About now is mr. of Cecil’s d. Eliz. to Wm. Wentworth
’75 Grindal succeeds Parker of Canterbury
Peace wanted by Puritans was peace of God. That wanted by Tudors was calm unified kingdom.

SONNET 76
’76—Construction 1st permanent theatre
’36—Reginald Pole’s book defending papal primacy agst. royal supr.
This poem is center of whole series
Check on origin of Verlum—title of Bacon (Truth by Light?)]]>

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SONNET 77
’77—1st hanging of missionary priest: Cuthbert [illegible] under treason act of ’41[;] 2 more ’78
’77—comet appears + Dee expounds to E.
Perhaps E. is writing her own life story with her deeds

Line 1
Glass: Sonnets are her picture
Line 11
Children: she was urged to have children

SONNET 78
’48-Cranmer’s Eng. version of Prayer Bk.
Bothwell dies ’78 – [illegible] – in Denmark
’78—Doughty beheaded by Drake
’78—Alencon courtship begins seriously[;] “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers”—Greene
’78 Argyll + Atholl[?] persuade 11-yr. old Jms. to take kingdom himself, deposing Morton
Line 1
Muse: Muse is Eliz.
Line 8
Double majesty: Bigamy
Line 14
Rood: “Rood”—public burnings (’38) of images: Rood of Grace [A "rood" is a cross or crucifix.]]]>

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SONNET 79
Overall Notes
’79-Death of Gresham (rob-pay-lend-stole-afford-owes-pay)
’79-Seminary “of Martyrs” opened in Rome (Cath.)
’79-Alencon comes for 1st visit—“The Frog”
Gaping Gulf 1579
Maybe there are friends of Sh. in the Tower
Line 9
He stole that word: other poets invent good qualities + thereby steal from her

SONNET 80
Overall Notes
’80-- Sidney writes Arcadia
’80—Campion tortured, exec. – Burghley takes chg. of propaganda
Main = code that was involved in Raleigh’s trial
Sh’s father summoned to London court
’80 Raleigh in Ireland; partakes in massacre
Line 14
My love was my decay: Telling truth (from love) may ruin S.]]>

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