Foreword; L.Jardine Introduction; R.Adams & R.Cox 'Procure as many as you can and send them over': Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations 1460-1760; P.Barber Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad; J.Powell Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham; S.Alford A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence; R.Adams Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy; J.Craigwood Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England; J.Daybell Francis Bacon's Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing; A.Stewart Court Hieroglyphics: The Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson's Masques; H.J.Crawforth The Ambassador's Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing; M.Netzloff The Postmistress, The Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control; N.Akkerman Index