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 XXII - FROM 1588 TO 1591
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
The death of Leicester forms an important æra in the history of the court of Elizabeth, and also in that of her private life and more intimate feelings. The powerful faction of which the favorite had been the head, acknowledged a new leader in the earl of Essex, whom his step-father had brought forward at court as a counterpoise to the influence of Raleigh, and who now stood second to none in the good graces of her majesty. But Essex, however gifted with noble and brilliant qualities totally deficient in Leicester, was on the other hand confessedly inferior to him in several other endowments still more essential to the leader of a court party. Though not void of art, he was by no means master of the profound dissimulation, the exquisite address, and especially the wary coolness by which his predecessor well knew how to accomplish his ends in despite of all opposition. His character was impetuous, his natural disposition frank; and experience had not yet taught him to distrust either himself or others.
With the friendships, Essex received as an inheritance the enmities also of Leicester, and no one at court could have entertained the least doubt whom he regarded as his principal opponent; but it would have been deemed too high a pitch of presumption in so young a man and so recent a favorite as Essex, to place himself in immediate and open hostility to the long established and far extending influence of Burleigh.
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- Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth , pp. 237 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1818