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| | Earl of Oxford and the Order of the Garter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | First, we cannot make much sense out of the Garter elections or, for that matter, anything else that happened four centuries ago, without establishing the historical context. |
 | | Hereford's wife was the Queen's first cousin once removed (the daughter of Francis Knollys), and Hereford had shown great energy opposing the Northern rebellion of 1569-70, hence the Queen's favor. |
 | | Buckhurst was the Queen's cousin, a Privy Councillor, and several times an ambassador, and presumably benefitted from the death of his enemy Leicester in 1588. |
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