LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1818.

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.-Connerion 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.

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