LONDON:

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

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1818.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

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