Editing Lady Arbella Stuart (section)

==Childhood==
[[File:Stuart,Arabella00.jpg|thumb|left|Arbella Stuart aged 2. circa 1577]]
Arbella's father died in 1576 when she was an infant. She was raised by her mother Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Lennox, until 1582.<ref>[[Antonia Fraser]], ''Mary, Queen of Scots'', p. 535</ref> The death of her mother left seven-year-old Arbella an orphan, whereupon she became the [[Ward (law)|ward]] of her grandmother Bess, rather than [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley|Lord Burghley]], the Master of the [[Court of Wards and Liveries|Court of Wards]], as might have been expected.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gristwood |first1=Sarah |author-link=Sarah Gristwood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmDZCQAAQBAJ |title=Arbella: England's Lost Queen |date=2 July 2015 |publisher=Transworld |isbn=978-1-4481-0983-8 |page=49 |language=en}}</ref>

During most of her childhood she lived in the [[protective isolation]] of [[Hardwick Hall]] in Derbyshire with her grandmother, who had married [[George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury]], in 1568. It seems she enjoyed periodic visits to the [[Court (royal)|court]] and to London, including court visits during the summers of 1587 and 1588 and one that lasted from November 1591 to July 1592.<ref>David N. Durant, ''Arbella Stuart: A Rival to the Queen'', 1978, pp.41, 51, 61</ref>

Starting in early 1589 or thereabouts "one Morley ... attended on Arbell and read to her", as reported in a dispatch from Bess of Hardwick to Lord Burghley, dated 21 September 1592.<ref name=AS>Blanche C. Hardy, [https://archive.org/stream/arbellastuartbio00harduoft/arbellastuartbio00harduoft_djvu.txt ''Arbella Stuart: A Biography''], Dutton, 1913, pp.64–67</ref> Bess recounts Morley's service to Arbella over "the space of three years and a half". She also notes he had hoped for an annuity of £40 a year ({{Inflation|GBP|40|1589|r=-2|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) from Arbella based on the fact that he had "been so much damnified [i.e. that much out of pocket] by leaving the University". This has led to speculation that Morley was the poet [[Christopher Marlowe]],<ref>Charles Nicholl, ''The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe'', 1992, pp.340–342</ref> whose name was sometimes spelt that way.