OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. By LUCY AIKIN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1818. 4494,4 HARVARD GOLLÆBE LIBMAT 1875, March 22. PRINTED BY RICHARD AND ARTHUR TAYLOR, SHOE-LANE. OF The Court of Queen Elizabeth, CHAPTER XVII. 1571 TO 1573. Notice of sir T. Gresham.-Building of his exchange.—The queen's visit to it.-Cecil created lord Burleigh and lordtreasurer.-Justs at Westminster-Notices of the earl of Oxford, Charles Howard, sir H. Lee, sir Chr. Hatton.Fresh negotiations for the marriage of Elizabeth with the duke of Anjou.-Renewal of the intrigues of Norfolk.-His re-committal, trial, and conviction.-Death of Throgmorton. Sonnet by Elizabeth-Norfolk beheaded.-His character and descendants.--Hostility of Spain.-Wilson's translation of Demosthenes.-Walsingham ambassador to France.-Treaty with that country.-Massacre of Paris. -Temporizing conduct of Elizabeth.-Burleigh's calcula→ tion of the queen's nativity.—Notice of Philip Sidney. FROM ROM the intrigues and violences of crafty politicians and discontented nobles, we. shall now turn to trace the prosperous and honorable career of a private English merchant, whose abilities and integrity introduced him to the notice of his sovereign, and whose patriotic munificence still preserves to him the respect ful remembrance of posterity. This merchant was Thomas VOL. II. B. |