Salisbury's Libels Are the Curse of the Powerful Politician

Despite all these good things, Salisbury cannot be said to have been universally popular with the world at large. Libels were effectively the twitter of the seventeenth century. The earl of northampton was lampooned as the great arch papist. Even archbishop whitgiff was accused of being the jesuit's hope. He never remarried after his wife and mother of their two children, elizabeth brooke, died in 15 97. It was rumored that he had an affair with audrey walsingham, but also with lady suffolk.