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page 1English spies

Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

Christopher Marlowe
English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)
Aphra Behn
British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
Francis Walsingham
English spy, diplomat and politician (1532-1590)
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
English Earl (1563-1612)

Basil Davidson
British journalist and historian (1914–2010)
Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle
alleged intrigant at the royal court of Charles I of England
John Thurloe
English barrister (1616-1668)
Richard Cocks
Head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan and diarist
Richard Rowlands
Anglo-Dutch antiquary, publisher, humorist and translator (1550–1640)

George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe
English politician and nobleman

Marguerite Addy
Elizabeth Alkin
British nurse and spy
Mary Nesbitt
British socialite and courtesan