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Boderie was aware of the details of this quarrel and described it in his letters. He wrote of the age difference between Lady Nottingham and the Admiral. He described the argument on the Thames centering on a clock and the time of departure, and Christian IV two or three times
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indicating the time two o'clock with his fingers. Lefèvre de la
Boderie knew that the Countess of Nottingham had written to Sinclair, and Anne of Denmark had expelled her from court, berating her as the grandchild of an illegitimate son of
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aboard ship about time and tide. The Danish king insisted it was two o'clock and waved two fingers at the Earl. Nottingham, or his wife
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as a useful source of information, worthy of cultivation, describing him as an "
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Boderie is known for his commentary on politics in London during the reign of
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Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain
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gave his wife, Jeanne le Prévost, the string of pearls that she was wearing.
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in September. Boderie's version of these events was a source of amusement to
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Cuirassier armour of Henry, future Prince of Wales about 1607, RCIN 72832
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in the play, was not primarily a reference to Hilderston, but rather to
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