MEMOIRS

OF

THE COURT

OF

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

BY LUCY AIKIN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1823.

Notice of sir T. Gresham.- Building of his exchange. - The

queen's visil to it. --Cecil created lord Burleigh and lord-

treasurer.—Justs at Westminster.— Notices of the earl of 0.x-

ford, 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-com-

mittal, trial, and conviction. - Death of Throgmorton.-

Sonnet by Elizabeth. Norfolk beheaded. — His character

and descendants.- Hostility of Spain. - Wylson's translation

of Demosthenes. Walsingham ambassador to France.-

Treaty with that country.- Massacre of Paris. - Temporiz-

ing conduct of Elizabeth. - Burleigh's calculation of the queen's

nativity. -- Notice of Philip Sidney.

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CHAPTER XVIII.

1573 to 1577.

Letters of lord Talbot to his father.- Connexion of Leicester

with lady Sheffield. — Anecdote of the queen and Mr. Dyer.

Queen suspicious of Burleigh. — Countesses of Lenox and

Shrewsbury imprisoned. - Queen refuses the sovereignty of