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PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1818.
Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, London.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
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 lord-treasurer.
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 be-
headed. His character and descendants.-Hostility of Spain.-
Wylson's translation of Demosthenes.-Walsingham ambassador
to France.-Treaty with that country.-Massacre of Paris.-
Temporizing 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 Holland.-Her
VOL. II.