Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER XVII 1571 TO 1573
- CHAPTER XVIII 1573 TO 1577
- CHAPTER XIX 1577 TO 1582
- CHAPTER XX 1582 TO 1587
- CHAPTER XXI 1587 AND 1588
- CHAPTER XXII FROM 1588 TO 1591
- CHAPTER XXIII FROM 1591 TO 1593
- CHAPTER XXIV FROM 1593 TO 1597
- CHAPTER XXV 1595 TO 1598
- CHAPTER XXVI 1597 AND 1598
- CHAPTER XXVII 1599 TO 1603
- ON THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF The Reign of Elizabeth
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER XVII 1571 TO 1573
- CHAPTER XVIII 1573 TO 1577
- CHAPTER XIX 1577 TO 1582
- CHAPTER XX 1582 TO 1587
- CHAPTER XXI 1587 AND 1588
- CHAPTER XXII FROM 1588 TO 1591
- CHAPTER XXIII FROM 1591 TO 1593
- CHAPTER XXIV FROM 1593 TO 1597
- CHAPTER XXV 1595 TO 1598
- CHAPTER XXVI 1597 AND 1598
- CHAPTER XXVII 1599 TO 1603
- ON THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF The Reign of Elizabeth
- INDEX
Summary
About the middle of the year 1576, Walsingham in a letter to sir Henry Sidney thus writes: “Here at home we live in security as we were wont, grounding our quietness upon other harms.” The harms here alluded to,—the religious wars of France, and the revolt of the Dutch provinces from Spain,—had proved indeed, in more ways than one, the safeguard of the peace of England. They furnished so much domestic occupation to the two catholic sovereigns of Europe, most formidable by their power, their bigotry, and their unprincipled ambition, as effectually to preclude them from uniting their forces to put in execution against Elizabeth the papal sentence of deprivation; and by the opportunity which they afforded her of causing incalculable mischiefs to these princes through the succours which she might afford to their rebellious subjects, they long enabled her to restrain both Philip and Charles within the bounds of respect and amity. But circumstances were now tending with increased velocity towards a rupture with Spain, clearly become inevitable; and in 1577 the queen of England saw herself compelled to take steps in the affairs of the Low Countries equally offensive to that power and to France.
The states of Holland, after the rejection of their sovereignty by Elizabeth, cast their eyes around in search of another protector; and Charles IX., suffering his ambition and his rivalry with Philip II. to overpower all the vehemence of his zeal for the catholic religion, showed himself eager to become their patron.
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- Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth , pp. 54 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1818