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I1 Elizabethan. — SECRET MEMOIRS of
ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester, Prime
Minister and Favourite of Queen Elizabeth
. . . His Ambition, Intrigues, Excessive
Power; His Engroseing the Queen, ‘ «350.
Written during his Life, and now Published
from an Old Manuscript With :1 Preface ‘-
by DR. DRAKE. Second Edition, corrected,
8vo., contemporary panelled calf gilt 1705

 
    

     

y8 ELIZABETHAN. —— Leycester’s Com-
monwealth conceived, spoken and pub-
lished with most earnest protestation of all
Dutifull goodwill and affection towards
this Realm, 5111. 4‘60, orig. calf, fine copy,
30/~ 1641

This work dealing with Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicester and Queen Elizabeth, is supposed to be the
work of Parsons the Jesuit. It was ovbiously im-
possible to publish it during the life of Elizabeth or
even James 1., and even when it was issued it was
Without name of printer or publisher.

  
     
 
   
   
     
   
   
    

   

 
   
       
    

2 Elizabethan—The LIFE of ROBERT

of Leicester, The Favourite of Queen Elli?;h
beth: Drawn from original Writers and
Records [by SAMUEL J EBB]. Portrait. 8vo.
- contemporary calf, 1727 ' ' ‘1 15/:

  

 
 

 Elizabeth, Queen of England ((1. 1633, (I.
1602), daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne
Boleyn, was brought up as a Protestant. ller
education was entrusted to the most learned
men of the age, and she became an accom-
plished scholar. During the reign of her
sister Mary she was imprisoned for a time in
the Tower. On her accession (1:358), Mary’s
enactments in favour of Romanism were
abrogated; by the Act of Supremacy the
sovereign again became head of the Church,
and a form of worship was established
which, it was hoped, would conciliate mode-
rate men of all parties. At first the spirit
of discontent dared not show itself amidst
the general satisfaction. But after the
escape of Mary Stuart into England (1568),
her presence in the country was a constant
'source of disquiet. She was the heir to the
throne, and as Elizabeth persistently rc-
fused to marry, it seemed probable that she
would be her successor. The disaffected
Papists were further encouraged by the
sentence of excommunication pronounced
against Elizabeth by the Pope, and by the
triumph of their cause abroad ; Jesuits from
Douay traversed thencountry in disguise,

several plots were formed, and it became
necessary to put the penal enactments against
Recnsants more stringently in force. The
Protestantism of the country was acutely
aroused, and a strong party in the council
urged the queen to put herself forward as
the champion of the Reformed faith on the
Continent. But Elizabeth chose rather to
encourage a feeling of independence and
energy at home than to involve England in
foreign complications; the prudence and
patriotism of her policy were fully proved by
the after history of her reign. The growing
feeling of nationality proved strongerthan the
lingering attachment to the old faith, especi-
ally after the hopes of the Roman Catholics
had been dashed by the execution of Mary
(1587), and when Philip of Spain sent his
long-projected expedition against England
(1558) Papists as well as Protestants came
zealously forward in defence of the realm.
During the latter part of the reign, the dis-
turbances created by the Puritans fore-
shadowed the troubles of the opening cen-
tury. /"' ZiZ-S‘

 

 Queen Elizabeth died at Richmon
between two and three o’clock of the
_, morning of March 24; at ten o’clock,
2-,.thanks ,to the promp‘titude of Sir
3: Robert Cecil, her successor was pro-"
' claimed in Whitehall. But Cecil was.
flnot the 01:11:,r man in a hurry in this
crisis in the succession. James L’s
' progress from Scotland was so rapid
that he had to be held up for a few

'.days at Burghley, the family seat of

Vthe Gecils, in order to allow the
funeral arrangements to be com—
, pleted (on April 28) before his
‘ofiicial entry into the capital while
' one of the messengers was obliged to
V stay at Grant-ham to be heated by a
'bonesettel. “All mouln in black
cloth, both lords, ladies, and all

§ others,” though some among them

'now felt free to announce that they
had been married ”these two years
' and more.” The dead hand was at
'last removed; a flurried search for
~precedents—even in such matters as
.the form of proclamations to be used
on a king’s accession, the jointure of
c a queen—carried men back, almost
7 before they knew it, to Cathe1ine of
- A1agon and the pre- -Refor1nation e1a