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
CHAPTER XXVI - 1597 AND 1598
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- 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
A fresh expedition against the Spaniards was in agitation from the beginning of this year, which occasioned many movements at court, and, as usual, disturbed the mind of the queen with various perplexities. Her captious favor towards Essex, and the arts employed by him to gain his will on every contested point, are well illustrated in the letters of Rowland White, to which we must again recur.
On February twenty-second he writes: “My lord of Essex kept his bed the most part of all yesterday; yet did one of his chamber tell me, he could not weep for it, for he knew his lord was not sick. There is not a day passes that the queen sends not often to see him, and himself every day goeth privately to her.” Two days after, he reports that “my lord of Essex comes out of his chamber in his gown and night-cap..… Full fourteen days his lordship kept in; her majesty, as I heard, resolved to break him of his will and to pull down his great heart, who found it a thing impossible, and says he holds it from the mother's side; but all is well again, and no doubt he will grow a mighty man in our state.”
The earl of Cumberland made “some doubt of his going to sea,” because lord Thomas Howard and Raleigh were to be joined with him in equal authority; the queen mentioned the subject to him, and on his repeating to herself his refusal, he was “well chidden.”
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- Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth , pp. 392 - 425Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1818