LONDON:
PRİNTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1818.

Printed by A. Stratian, Printers-Street, London,

CONTENTS

OF

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. • • Page 1

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

VOL. II.