Welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast. I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are,

our place in the universe, and a deeper connection to our own humanity. This is episode 83. It's

another joint episode with Melita of Tudor Times on Mary Sydney. Just a quick note that the

Renaissance English History podcast is a proud member of the Agora Podcast Network. You can

discover lots of great new podcasts at agorapodcastnetwork.com. And the podcast of the month is

the cannonball. Cannonball is a monthly podcast co-hosted by two well-educated autodidacts who are

attempting to read all the books in the appendix to Harold Bloom's

the Western Canon. Learn more at the cannonballpodcast.orghum. Also, I need to thank a very

special group of people right now, my lovely Patreon patrons. So I have a really special

Patreon drive going on right now in August. It's kind of like an NPR fundraiser, but more

renaissancey. So if you sign up at the

$3 an episode level or higher, anytime during the month of August, you will get one of the

2018 tutor planners for free in mid-November when I shipped them out, and that'll be your

thank you gift. So you could either keep it for yourself, or you could give it as a present.

This is a special way for me to

thank my patrons and give away something super cool at the same time. Right now I want to thank my

current patrons, Kathy Yergan, Elizabeth, Cynthia, Judith, Amy, Allison, Ariel, Barbara, Joanna, Kaylee, Kathy,

Christine, Annetta, Candice, Rebecca, Al, and Shandor. You guys are so

amazing and I am so deeply grateful to you. You can support the show as well and score a free

tutor planner as a thank you gift by going to Englandcast.com and clicking on the Patreon link.

So now let me introduce you to Melita Thomas.

Melita is a co-founder and editor of Tudor Times, a website devoted to Tudor and Stuart History

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