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Gilbert Curle

March 04, 2023

Gilbert Curle or Curll (died 1609) was a Scottish secretary who served Mary, Queen of Scots during her captivity in England. He married Barbara Mowbray, one of three sisters serving Mary.

England

 
Gilbert Curle married Barbara Mowbray, a daughter of the Laird of Barnbougle

Little is known of Curle's family background, but he seems to have been from an Edinburgh family.[1] According to the confession of Nicholas Hubert alias French Paris, Mary wanted Curle in her service to replace Alexander Durham in 1567 shortly before the murder of Lord Darnley. Mary distrusted Durham.[2]

Gilbert Curle was with Mary, Queen of Scots in England in September 1568, acting as her secretary for the Scots language and six months later was made a valet of her chamber.[3] Some letters for Mary were given to a James Curle in Edinburgh.[4] By the 1580s Mary's correspondents often added postscripts to their letters addressed to Curle.[5]

In December 1581 Mary asked for six horses for riders to attend her. She was allowed four horses for her men to accompany her coach, and they were not allowed to carry pistols, called "daggs". The appointed riders were Andrew Melville, Claude Nau, Gilbert Curle, and Bastian Pagez.[6]

One of his sisters, Elizabeth Curle, joined him in the queen's household.[7][8]

Curle corresponded with Thomas Baldwin. In order to disguise the meaning of his letters, Curle wrote about a "merchant of London" to mean Elizabeth I, Mary was a "merchant of Newcastle", and Francis Walsingham was the "merchant's wife".[9]

Marriage at Tutbury Castle

 
Gilbert Curle married Barbara Mowbray at Tutbury Castle

Curle married Barbara Mowbray, one of Mary's gentlewomen. She was a daughter of John Mowbray, Laird of Barnbougle in West Lothian, near Cramond Island, and Elizabeth Kirkcaldy, a sister of William Kirkcaldy of Grange. Grange had been a commander in the Marian Civil War and was executed in July 1573.[10]

John Mowbray was in touch with Francis Walsingham in December 1580, after one his sons, Francis, met him in London. The French ambassador, Michel de Castelnau, was informed that Francis Mowbray wished to serve Elizabeth I.[11]

A coded letter to the French ambassador Castelnau mentioning the arrival of Barbara Mowbray or one of her sisters in Mary's household was discovered in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and deciphered in 2023. Curle, Nau, and Jérôme Pasquier ciphered letters for Mary.[12]

Betrothal

The marriage was discussed in October 1584 at Wingfield, and Ralph Sadler notified Francis Walsingham that the couple had written to the Laird of Barnbougle for permission to marry, and Mary had asked him to speed the letter.[13][14]

Meanwhile, Curle was taken from Wingfield to view Tutbury Castle and examine the accommodation in advance of Mary moving there. He reported the lodgings were in a poor state. Sadler wrote to Walsingham that Curle's report was misleading, and he had lied "like a false Scot". Sadler and John Somer admitted that Curle had justly noted that the glazing was in disrepair in the great tower, but they suspected Mary's household were reluctant to move for "secret causes".[15]

A great deal of furnishings were needed for Tutbury. John Somer was "every day assaulted" by Nau and Curle with daily requests for horses for Mary. He said the weather was too cold for riding and she could always borrow horses. Somer thought that Mary intended to send Curle as a messenger to Scotland, and he provided a sketch of the secretary's character for William Cecil. Curle was not so quick-witted or prompt as Nau, French-like, but with a shrewd melancholy wit, and not so pleasant in speech and utterance, and suspect enough. Mary liked him for his fidelity and secrecy.[16]

October wedding

Curle and Mowbray's wedding was held at Tutbury Castle on 23 October 1585. Mary had previously promised the couple a gift of 2000 French crowns, and they transferred the sum to Mary's French secretary and treasurer, Claude Nau. This transaction was witnessed by Andrew Melville, the Master of the Household, and Sebastian Megalli, the queen's almoner.[17] Mary later made a will at Sheffield Manor in 1577, mentioning the sum of 4,000 Francs promised to the couple.[18]

Amias Paulet, Mary's keeper at Tutbury, knew the couple were betrothed, but wrote to Walsingham after the wedding, saying that Mary had not told him of the ceremony in advance.[19]

Gillis Mowbray comes to Tutbury

Barbara's sister Geillis or Gillis Mowbray came to England from Barnbougle too late for her sister's wedding.[20][21] Geillis was sent from London to Derby, and arrived at Tutbury on 9 November. Her position at first was maid to Curle's sister Elizabeth.[22] Geillis was an ancestor of the Clerk of Penicuik family, and it is thought that Mary gave her jewels, known today as the "Penicuik jewels" and displayed at the National Museum of Scotland.[23]

Arrested

Barbara Curle was pregnant in May 1586.[24] They had eight children in total.[25] Curle was arrested before their daughter was born in August 1586. Mary wanted her christened with her name, but there was no priest, so she made a form of baptism herself.[26][27]

Arrest and exile

 
Jane Kennedy blindfolds Mary, Queen of Scots beside Elizabeth Curle, 19th-century painting by Abel de Pujol, (Valenciennes, musée des Beaux-Arts)
 
The Blairs Memorial portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots belonged to Hippolytus Curle

Curle and Claude Nau were arrested and interrogated on 4 August 1586, suspected of involvement in the Babington plot.[28] Francis Walsingham asked Mary's keeper Amias Paulet to move her from Chartley Castle and detain the two secretaries. Mary was taken to Tixall, and Barbara Curle had her baby while she was away.[29]

Evidence against Mary and her secretaries had been gathered by the code-breaker Thomas Phelippes. Phellipes had written to Walsingham in July that he hoped Nau and Curle would be hanged.[30]

His mother Elizabeth Curle wrote from Barnbougle to the Scottish ambassador in London, Archibald Douglas, asking for his help.[31] Curle was imprisoned, and his sister Janet Curle wrote to him, hoping that Queen Elizabeth would release him.[32] At this difficult time, Curle also received a demand for payment from Mary's Italian banker Timothy Cagnioli.[33] Cagnioli was married to Jonet Curle, probably Gilbert's sister.[34] In May 1594 there was a rumour that the rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell had been secretly lodged in Janet Curle's house on the Castle Hill in Edinburgh.[35]

Walsingham sent news to the Scottish Court in September 1586 that Mary was to be moved to Fotheringhay, and that "the matters whereof she is guilty are already so plain and manifest (being also confessed by her two secretaries), as it is thought, they shall required no long debating".[36]

When Mary's household moved to Fotheringhay, Gilbert Curle's wife Barbara, his sister Elizabeth, and sister-in-law Geillis Mowbray, and his servant Lawrence, a Scotsman, remained at Chartley.[37] At Fotheringhay, Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle helped Mary onto the scaffold and Kennedy tied her blindfold.[38] Jane and Elizabeth had been chosen for this duty by Mary herself.[39] Later, Kennedy told the Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza that she had blindfolded Mary at the execution, rather than Elizabeth Curle, because she had precedence of noble birth.[40]

After his release he went to France and then settled in the Spanish Netherlands.[41] A note made around 1589 indicates that Geillis Moubray, who had returned to Scotland, her husband Sir James Lyndsey, and her sister Jean Mowbray received pensions from Spain paid in gold ducats.[42]

Death and commemoration

Gilbert Curle died on 3 September 1609, possibly in Madrid. Barbara died in Antwerp on 31 July 1616, and her sister-in-law Elizabeth Curle died on 29 May 1620.[43]

Barbara Mowbray's son Hippolytus Curle and Elizabeth Curle had a monument made in the church of St Andrew Antwerp which includes a portrait of Queen Mary. The monument was made by Robert and Jan De Nole and the portrait was painted on copper by Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569-1622).[44][45]

Hippolytus Curle gave an encaustic or enamelled "Agnus Dei", depicting St Ignatius of Loyala on one side, to the Scots College at Douai, now lost, with the memorial portrait of Mary which is kept by Blairs College Museum in Aberdeen.[46]

Elizabeth Curle and the jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots

An inventory taken of the queen's goods at Chartley in August 1586 mentions that Elizabeth Curle had several lengths of silk, linen and other suchlike items, not included in the inventory, and many various everyday objects of little value.[47]

After the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587 an inventory was made of her jewels. Several pieces were listed as in the custody of Gilbert's sister Elizabeth, including; a chain of coral and gold musk or pomander beads set with pearls; a chain of small pearls; a chain of amber with small pearls and other beads; a gold "book" enamelled, with the portraits of Mary, Darnley, and James VI; a gold ring set with a ruby; a diamond ring; a ring of mother of pearl set with a blue sapphire; a gold enamelled spear; a gold tree with a queen on top and a boy pulling the branches; a silver looking glass; 12 biliards and an ivory ball.[48]

Mary had asked Elizabeth to give Barbara Curle a gold ensign depicting one of Aesop's fables and two rings, one with a diamond.[49] She was to give Curle's youngest child two rings, one set with five little opals, and a small chain of coral and mother of pearl.[50]

Elizabeth Curle had custody of Mary's chamber plate, including two little silver flagons, two mazer cups mounted with silver gilt, and a little silver bell. She also had two more looking glasses, two large watches, and a smaller watch.[51] She had 200 French crowns for one of her sisters, and 100 crowns for Gilbert Curle's servant Lawrence.[52]

She also had several items from the queen's wardrobe, including a silk camlet gown, a black petticoat edged with sheepskin, a russet satin doublet, and a beaver felt hat. She was keeping for Barbara Curle the queen's cloak of figured velvet lined with shag, and a white satin doublet, and for Curle's child, a satin kirtle, and another white satin kirtle.[53]

References

  1. ^ Mark Dilworth, 'The Curle-Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai', Innes Review, 56:1 (Spring 2005), p. 12.
  2. ^ Joseph Bain, Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 667 no. 1117.
  3. ^ Mark Dilworth, 'The Curle-Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai', Innes Review, 56:1 (Spring 2005), p. 10.
  4. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 672 no. 781.
  5. ^ Mark Dilworth, 'The Curle-Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai', Innes Review, 56:1 (Spring 2005), p. 11.
  6. ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 2 (London, 1888), p. 444.
  7. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 412 no. 439.
  8. ^ Debra Barret-Graves, 'Elizabeth Curle', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, eds, Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), pp. 493-4.
  9. ^ James Daybell, 'Secret Letters in Elizabethan England', James Daybell & Peter Hinds, Material Readings of Early Modern Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 53.
  10. ^ Mark Dilworth, 'The Curle-Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai', Innes Review, 56:1 (Spring 2005), pp. 11-12.
  11. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1574-1581, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 546 no. 632, 562 no. 637.
  12. ^ George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, Satoshi Tomokiyo, 'Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584', Cryptologia (8 Feb 2023), pp. 74, 91 fn.350 doi:10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677
  13. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1584-1585, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1913), p. 358 nos. 331-2.
  14. ^ Mark Dilworth, (2005), p. 11.
  15. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1584-1585, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1913), pp. 497-8 nos. 463-4.
  16. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1584-1585, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1913), pp. 582-3 no. 561.
  17. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 135 no. 178.
  18. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 4 (London, 1852), p. 357.
  19. ^ John Morris, Letter-books of Amias Poulet (London, 1874), pp. 107, 111
  20. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), pp. 115 no. 147, 125 no. 163.
  21. ^ John Morris, Letter-books of Amias Poulet (London, 1874), pp. 100-101, 107
  22. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), pp. 130 no. 172, 153 no. 200, 155 no. 203, 412 no. 440.
  23. ^ Rosalind Marshall & George Dalgleish, The Art of Jewellery in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1991), p. 14.
  24. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 412 no. 439.
  25. ^ Jos E. Vercruysse, 'A Scottish Jesuit from Antwerp: Hippolytus Curle', Innes Review, 61:2 (November 2010).
  26. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 632 no. 726.
  27. ^ Mark Dilworth, (2005), p. 13.
  28. ^ John Morris, Letter-books of Amias Poulet (London, 1874), p. 118
  29. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), pp. 606-7 nos. 688-90.
  30. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 531 no. 601.
  31. ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 3 (London, 1889), p. 110.
  32. ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 3 (London, 1889), p. 176.
  33. ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 3 (London, 1889), p. 170.
  34. ^ James Beveridge & Gordon Donaldson, Register of the Privy Seal: 1556-1567, 5:1 (Edinburgh, 1957), p. 542 no. 1928.
  35. ^ Annie Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 331 no. 261.
  36. ^ Letters and Papers Relating to Patrick Master of Gray (Edinburgh, 1835), pp. 110-111, modernised here.
  37. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 635 no. 730: A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 254.
  38. ^ Labanoff, A., ed., Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), pp. 242-249, 265: Morris, John, ed., Letter Book of Amias Paulet (London, 1874) pp. 298, 367.
  39. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 9 (Edinburgh, 1915), pp. 272-3.
  40. ^ Martin Hume, Calendar State Papers Simancas, vol. 4 (London, 1892), p. 177
  41. ^ John Duncan Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1597-1603, 13:1 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. xxx.
  42. ^ Original Letters of Mr. John Colville, 1582-1603 (Edinburgh, 1858), p. 331.
  43. ^ Jos E. Vercruysse, 'A Scottish Jesuit from Antwerp: Hippolytus Curle', Innes Review, 61:2 (November 2010).
  44. ^ Rudi Mannaerts, St Andrews Church of Antwerp (Antwerp, 2008), pp. 26-7.
  45. ^ Jos E. Vercruysse, 'A Scottish Jesuit from Antwerp: Hippolytus Curle', Innes Review, 61:2 (November 2010).
  46. ^ Jos E. Vercruysse, 'A Scottish Jesuit from Antwerp: Hippolytus Curle', Innes Review, 61:2 (November 2010).
  47. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 249.
  48. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 258-9.
  49. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 258.
  50. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 258.
  51. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), pp. 262, 272.
  52. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 265.
  53. ^ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London, 1842), p. 268.

External links

  • Letter from Bess of Hardwick to Gilbert Curle, 1574: Bess of Hardwick's Letters
  • Will of Agnes Mowbray (d. 1575), a sister of Barbara Mowbray, National Records of Scotland

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Gilbert Curle or Curll died 1609 was a Scottish secretary who served Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in England He married Barbara Mowbray one of three sisters serving Mary Contents 1 England 2 Marriage at Tutbury Castle 2 1 Betrothal 2 2 October wedding 2 3 Gillis Mowbray comes to Tutbury 2 4 Arrested 3 Arrest and exile 4 Death and commemoration 5 Elizabeth Curle and the jewels of Mary Queen of Scots 6 References 7 External linksEngland Edit Gilbert Curle married Barbara Mowbray a daughter of the Laird of Barnbougle Little is known of Curle s family background but he seems to have been from an Edinburgh family 1 According to the confession of Nicholas Hubert alias French Paris Mary wanted Curle in her service to replace Alexander Durham in 1567 shortly before the murder of Lord Darnley Mary distrusted Durham 2 Gilbert Curle was with Mary Queen of Scots in England in September 1568 acting as her secretary for the Scots language and six months later was made a valet of her chamber 3 Some letters for Mary were given to a James Curle in Edinburgh 4 By the 1580s Mary s correspondents often added postscripts to their letters addressed to Curle 5 In December 1581 Mary asked for six horses for riders to attend her She was allowed four horses for her men to accompany her coach and they were not allowed to carry pistols called daggs The appointed riders were Andrew Melville Claude Nau Gilbert Curle and Bastian Pagez 6 One of his sisters Elizabeth Curle joined him in the queen s household 7 8 Curle corresponded with Thomas Baldwin In order to disguise the meaning of his letters Curle wrote about a merchant of London to mean Elizabeth I Mary was a merchant of Newcastle and Francis Walsingham was the merchant s wife 9 Marriage at Tutbury Castle Edit Gilbert Curle married Barbara Mowbray at Tutbury Castle Curle married Barbara Mowbray one of Mary s gentlewomen She was a daughter of John Mowbray Laird of Barnbougle in West Lothian near Cramond Island and Elizabeth Kirkcaldy a sister of William Kirkcaldy of Grange Grange had been a commander in the Marian Civil War and was executed in July 1573 10 John Mowbray was in touch with Francis Walsingham in December 1580 after one his sons Francis met him in London The French ambassador Michel de Castelnau was informed that Francis Mowbray wished to serve Elizabeth I 11 A coded letter to the French ambassador Castelnau mentioning the arrival of Barbara Mowbray or one of her sisters in Mary s household was discovered in the Bibliotheque nationale de France and deciphered in 2023 Curle Nau and Jerome Pasquier ciphered letters for Mary 12 Betrothal Edit The marriage was discussed in October 1584 at Wingfield and Ralph Sadler notified Francis Walsingham that the couple had written to the Laird of Barnbougle for permission to marry and Mary had asked him to speed the letter 13 14 Meanwhile Curle was taken from Wingfield to view Tutbury Castle and examine the accommodation in advance of Mary moving there He reported the lodgings were in a poor state Sadler wrote to Walsingham that Curle s report was misleading and he had lied like a false Scot Sadler and John Somer admitted that Curle had justly noted that the glazing was in disrepair in the great tower but they suspected Mary s household were reluctant to move for secret causes 15 A great deal of furnishings were needed for Tutbury John Somer was every day assaulted by Nau and Curle with daily requests for horses for Mary He said the weather was too cold for riding and she could always borrow horses Somer thought that Mary intended to send Curle as a messenger to Scotland and he provided a sketch of the secretary s character for William Cecil Curle was not so quick witted or prompt as Nau French like but with a shrewd melancholy wit and not so pleasant in speech and utterance and suspect enough Mary liked him for his fidelity and secrecy 16 October wedding Edit Curle and Mowbray s wedding was held at Tutbury Castle on 23 October 1585 Mary had previously promised the couple a gift of 2000 French crowns and they transferred the sum to Mary s French secretary and treasurer Claude Nau This transaction was witnessed by Andrew Melville the Master of the Household and Sebastian Megalli the queen s almoner 17 Mary later made a will at Sheffield Manor in 1577 mentioning the sum of 4 000 Francs promised to the couple 18 Amias Paulet Mary s keeper at Tutbury knew the couple were betrothed but wrote to Walsingham after the wedding saying that Mary had not told him of the ceremony in advance 19 Gillis Mowbray comes to Tutbury Edit Barbara s sister Geillis or Gillis Mowbray came to England from Barnbougle too late for her sister s wedding 20 21 Geillis was sent from London to Derby and arrived at Tutbury on 9 November Her position at first was maid to Curle s sister Elizabeth 22 Geillis was an ancestor of the Clerk of Penicuik family and it is thought that Mary gave her jewels known today as the Penicuik jewels and displayed at the National Museum of Scotland 23 Arrested Edit Barbara Curle was pregnant in May 1586 24 They had eight children in total 25 Curle was arrested before their daughter was born in August 1586 Mary wanted her christened with her name but there was no priest so she made a form of baptism herself 26 27 Arrest and exile Edit Jane Kennedy blindfolds Mary Queen of Scots beside Elizabeth Curle 19th century painting by Abel de Pujol Valenciennes musee des Beaux Arts The Blairs Memorial portrait of Mary Queen of Scots belonged to Hippolytus Curle Curle and Claude Nau were arrested and interrogated on 4 August 1586 suspected of involvement in the Babington plot 28 Francis Walsingham asked Mary s keeper Amias Paulet to move her from Chartley Castle and detain the two secretaries Mary was taken to Tixall and Barbara Curle had her baby while she was away 29 Evidence against Mary and her secretaries had been gathered by the code breaker Thomas Phelippes Phellipes had written to Walsingham in July that he hoped Nau and Curle would be hanged 30 His mother Elizabeth Curle wrote from Barnbougle to the Scottish ambassador in London Archibald Douglas asking for his help 31 Curle was imprisoned and his sister Janet Curle wrote to him hoping that Queen Elizabeth would release him 32 At this difficult time Curle also received a demand for payment from Mary s Italian banker Timothy Cagnioli 33 Cagnioli was married to Jonet Curle probably Gilbert s sister 34 In May 1594 there was a rumour that the rebel Francis Stewart 5th Earl of Bothwell had been secretly lodged in Janet Curle s house on the Castle Hill in Edinburgh 35 Walsingham sent news to the Scottish Court in September 1586 that Mary was to be moved to Fotheringhay and that the matters whereof she is guilty are already so plain and manifest being also confessed by her two secretaries as it is thought they shall required no long debating 36 When Mary s household moved to Fotheringhay Gilbert Curle s wife Barbara his sister Elizabeth and sister in law Geillis Mowbray and his servant Lawrence a Scotsman remained at Chartley 37 At Fotheringhay Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle helped Mary onto the scaffold and Kennedy tied her blindfold 38 Jane and Elizabeth had been chosen for this duty by Mary herself 39 Later Kennedy told the Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza that she had blindfolded Mary at the execution rather than Elizabeth Curle because she had precedence of noble birth 40 After his release he went to France and then settled in the Spanish Netherlands 41 A note made around 1589 indicates that Geillis Moubray who had returned to Scotland her husband Sir James Lyndsey and her sister Jean Mowbray received pensions from Spain paid in gold ducats 42 Death and commemoration EditGilbert Curle died on 3 September 1609 possibly in Madrid Barbara died in Antwerp on 31 July 1616 and her sister in law Elizabeth Curle died on 29 May 1620 43 Barbara Mowbray s son Hippolytus Curle and Elizabeth Curle had a monument made in the church of St Andrew Antwerp which includes a portrait of Queen Mary The monument was made by Robert and Jan De Nole and the portrait was painted on copper by Frans Pourbus the Younger 1569 1622 44 45 Hippolytus Curle gave an encaustic or enamelled Agnus Dei depicting St Ignatius of Loyala on one side to the Scots College at Douai now lost with the memorial portrait of Mary which is kept by Blairs College Museum in Aberdeen 46 Elizabeth Curle and the jewels of Mary Queen of Scots EditAn inventory taken of the queen s goods at Chartley in August 1586 mentions that Elizabeth Curle had several lengths of silk linen and other suchlike items not included in the inventory and many various everyday objects of little value 47 After the execution of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587 an inventory was made of her jewels Several pieces were listed as in the custody of Gilbert s sister Elizabeth including a chain of coral and gold musk or pomander beads set with pearls a chain of small pearls a chain of amber with small pearls and other beads a gold book enamelled with the portraits of Mary Darnley and James VI a gold ring set with a ruby a diamond ring a ring of mother of pearl set with a blue sapphire a gold enamelled spear a gold tree with a queen on top and a boy pulling the branches a silver looking glass 12 biliards and an ivory ball 48 Mary had asked Elizabeth to give Barbara Curle a gold ensign depicting one of Aesop s fables and two rings one with a diamond 49 She was to give Curle s youngest child two rings one set with five little opals and a small chain of coral and mother of pearl 50 Elizabeth Curle had custody of Mary s chamber plate including two little silver flagons two mazer cups mounted with silver gilt and a little silver bell She also had two more looking glasses two large watches and a smaller watch 51 She had 200 French crowns for one of her sisters and 100 crowns for Gilbert Curle s servant Lawrence 52 She also had several items from the queen s wardrobe including a silk camlet gown a black petticoat edged with sheepskin a russet satin doublet and a beaver felt hat She was keeping for Barbara Curle the queen s cloak of figured velvet lined with shag and a white satin doublet and for Curle s child a satin kirtle and another white satin kirtle 53 References Edit Mark Dilworth The Curle Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai Innes Review 56 1 Spring 2005 p 12 Joseph Bain Calendar of State Papers Scotland vol 2 Edinburgh 1900 p 667 no 1117 Mark Dilworth The Curle Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai Innes Review 56 1 Spring 2005 p 10 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 4 Edinburgh 1905 p 672 no 781 Mark Dilworth The Curle Mowbray family and the Scots College in Douai Innes Review 56 1 Spring 2005 p 11 HMC Salisbury Hatfield vol 2 London 1888 p 444 William Boyd Calendar State Papers Scotland 1585 1586 vol 8 Edinburgh 1914 p 412 no 439 Debra Barret Graves Elizabeth Curle Carole Levin Anna Riehl Bertolet Jo Eldridge 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