Marmaduke DarrellorDarrelorDayrell (died 1632) was an English courtier, accountant, and naval administrator.
Marmaduke Darrell calculated the household expenses of Mary, Queen of ScotsatTutbury CastleMarmaduke Darrell paid for the rebuilding of St James' at Fulmer in 1610
He was a Clerk of the Avery to Elizabeth I.[1] Darrell kept an account of the expenses of keeping Mary, Queen of Scots and her household at Tutbury Castle in 1585–6, totalling £3440-11s-8d.[2] With Brian Cave, he set out a "diet" or budget for Mary, outlining the food required for her household and its cost. She needed an allowance of 12 pounds of sugar monthly for posset and caudle drinks taken in her chamber.[3]
He attended Mary's execution at Fotheringhay Castle and wrote to a cousin, William DarrellatLittlecote, describing the event, "she her selfe endured it (as wee must all truely saye that were eye witnesses) with great courage, and shewe of magnanimitye".[4]
His family kept an embroidered glove believed to have been Mary's gift to him.[5] The leather glove embroidered with coloured silks and silver thread, lined with crimson satin, is preserved at Saffron Walden Museum.[6]
He was the victualler of the ships or Surveyor of Marine Victuals from 1595 to 1623, and Cofferer of the Household .
Marmaduke Darrell died in March 1631–2 and was buried at Fulmer in the church of St James, which he had rebuilt in 1610. There is a monument with effigies of him and his wife.
^Markham John Thorpe, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (London, 1858), p. 987: John Morris, The Letter-books of Sir Amias Paulet (London, 1874), p. 183.
^William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1584-1585 (Edinburgh, 1913), p. 578-80 nos. 557, 558.
^W. B. Redfarn, 'The Glove of Mary Queen of Scots', The Reliquary (April 1882), pp. 193-4: See TNA SP 46/44 f.92: Marmaduke Darell's Letter
^Joseph Stevenson, 'Memorials of Mary Queen of Scots', James Paton, Scottish National Memorials (Glasgow, 1890), p. 68.
^Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer During the Reign of King James (London, 1836), pp. 1-3: HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 14 (London, 1930), p. 56.
^J. Leeds Barroll, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England (Philadelphia, 2001), pp. 41-3.
^Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 27 no. 40.
