Andrew Noel's brother Henry Noel was a poet, a patron of John Dowland, and said to be a gentleman pensioner to the queen. He died on 28 February 1597 after playing a ball game called baloune at court with an Italian opponent.[2] According to a letter written by Rowland Whyte in April, the queen had been angry at one of her maids of honour Elizabeth Brydges for watching a game of ballon rather than attending to her duties.[3] Brydges was a daughter of Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos, a probable patron of Henry Noel.[4]
On 23 February 1600 the envoy Louis Verreycken from the Spanish Netherlands had an audience with Queen Elizabeth. The great ladies and "fair maids" of the court, all dressed in white "excellently brave", including Mabel, Lady Noel, and her sisters Sarah, Lady Hastings and Theodosia, Lady Dudley (or her mother-in-law Mary, Lady Dudley), waited in the presence chamber.[5]
Edward Noel (1582-1643), married in 1605 Julianna Hickes (c. 1580-1680), daughter of Sir Baptist Hicks, the disappearance of her steward William Harrison was known as The Campden Wonder, another steward, Endymion Canning, was buried at Brooke.
^The Funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Collection of Curious Tracts (1890), pp. 4, 12, 63: Accounts and Papers Relating to Mary Queen of Scots (London: Camden Society, 1867), p. 46.
^Tessa Murray, Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher (Woodbridge, 2014), p.41: P. Austin Nuttall,The History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller, vol. 2 (London, 1840), pp. 243-4.
^Michael Brennan, Noel Kinnamon, Margaret Hannay, The Letters of Rowland Whyte (Philadelphia, 2013), pp. 197, 291, 588: Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State, vol. 2 (London, 1746), p. 38.
^Michael Brennan, Noel Kinnamon, Margaret Hannay, The Letters of Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sidney (Philadelphia, 2013), p. 429.
^Patricia Phillipy, 'Literary Legacies: Children's reading and Writing', in, Naomi J. Miller & Diane Purkiss, Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), p. 318, held at Northampton Record Office NRO Montagu MS B2 fol. 37; MS 191.
