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| | Captain Thomas Lee |
 | | Lee was apprehended while secretly watching the Queen in her chamber (according to one version, in Notes and Queries, 1943, he waited under her bed), as part of his plot to hold her to ransom his friends the Earls of Essex and Southampton, who were both under suspicion of conspiracy against the Queen. |
 | | Lee became more disenchanted with the English court, his sympathies began to change towards the Irish, and he 'went native', wearing the garb of a Gaelic chieftain, and becoming involved in skirmishes with various landowners and sheriffs. |
 | | Thomas Lee's portrait, painted in 1594 by Marcus Gheevaerts, showing him in an exaggerated pose and the attire of a Gaelic chieftain, is in the Tate gallery, London. |
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