This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... the 23rd, for the purpose of attending the Queen on her State entry into London. It must have been a grand procession, and Elizabeth's mind must have exulted gratefully at the contrast between her position now and the last time she travelled that road, when she was conveyed in an invalid's litter to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... the 23rd, for the purpose of attending the Queen on her State entry into London. It must have been a grand procession, and Elizabeth's mind must have exulted gratefully at the contrast between her position now and the last time she travelled that road, when she was conveyed in an invalid's litter to stand her trial for high treason. The new Queen was twenty-five years of age, good looking, well educated, accomplished, cautious, courageous; but flighty, vain, and fond of admiration--"Brave, wary, sane to the heart of her, A Tudor schooled by the shadow of death, A Boleyn, too, glancing across the Tudor, Not so well."t The bishops--Mary's nominees--met the procession at Highgate, and all except one (the blood-thirsty Bonnerj) were allowed to kiss the Queen's hand. Elizabeth was a Protestant at heart, but she very cautiously and wisely abstained from declaring her religious sentiments at first, and hardly appeared to favour one party more than another; in fact, she acted on Sir Ralph Sadleir's dictum that "moderation was the interest of a public State--that the Protestants should be kept in hope, and the Papists not cast into despair." No wiser advice could be given under the circumstances. The Papists were a powerful body in the State, and numerically stronger than the Protestants; were, therefore, Protestant fanaticism encouraged and Catholic spirit persecuted, an insurrection would certainly take place in favour of Mary Queen of Scots, who was next heir to the throne by right of birth, and a decided Papist. Instead, therefore, of creating an entirely new Privy Council, Elizabeth retained thirteen of the old members and added eight new ones, and thus formed a cabinet composed of loyal Catholics and moderate Protestants. Those...
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