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Queen Elizabeth had a small number of men in whom she placed great trust to carry her dispatches and orders abroad. The four who did the bulk of her couriering were Francisco Thomaso, Francis Picher, John Spritewell, her post at Dover, and John Wells.
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J.M.B.C. Kervyn de Lettenhove, Documents inédits relatifs à l’histoire du XVLe siècle, première partie (Bruxelles: 1883), p. 103.
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Allen, E.J.B. (1972). English Diplomatic Couriers. In: Post and Courier Service in the Diplomacy of Early Modern Europe. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2847-9_7
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