People/Characters William Cardinal Allen
Works (15)
- The Armada by Garrett Mattingly
- Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired by Benson Bobrick
- Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
- New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden
- Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky
- The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
- Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics by Sarah Gristwood
- The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World by Lacey Baldwin Smith
- 1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era by Christopher Lee
- Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
- All the Queen's Men: Elizabeth I and Her Courtiers by Neville Williams
- Who's Who in Tudor England by C. R. N. Routh
- All the Queen's Men by Peter Brimacombe
- With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown by Benton Rain Patterson
- Mary Queen of Scots by Retha Warnicke
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| Description | William Allen (1532 - 1592) was an English Roman Catholic priest who became head of the English Catholic seminary at Douai and Rheims. He was eventually granted the title of Librarian of the Vatican. He helped plan the Spanish Armada, and would have been made Archbishop of Canterbury had it succeeded. |