MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. BY LUCY AIKIN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. SIXTH EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1826. CONTENTS 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 Ox- 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 |