Makers of History
Queen Elizabeth
BY
JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT.
[Illustration: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.]
PREFACE.
The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information which this country affords; and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in all historical accounts, more or less of imperfection and error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it.
CONTENTS.
Chapter Page
I. ELIZABETH'S MOTHER 13
II. THE CHILDHOOD OF A PRINCESS 39
III. LADY JANE GREY 57
IV. THE SPANISH MATCH 81
V. ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER 100
VI. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE 120
VII. THE WAR IN SCOTLAND 141
VIII. ELIZABETH'S LOVERS 161
IX. PERSONAL CHARACTER 187
X. THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA 208
XI. THE EARL OF ESSEX 232
XII. THE CONCLUSION 260
ENGRAVINGS.
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PORTRAIT OF DRAKE _Frontispiece._
PORTRAIT OF HENRY VIII 16
PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN 20
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott
- 2: In ascending the Thames by the steamboat from Rotterdam
- 3: Illustration PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN
- 4: He brought Anne Boleyn forward as his queen
- 5: Just as Anne herself had supplanted Catharine
- 6: Conveyed to her palace in Greenwich
- 7: They who think Anne Boleyn was innocent
- 8: There is an ancient letter from Lady Bryan
- 9: A part of the privation which Elizabeth seems
- 10: Being brothers of Jane Seymour
- 11: Seymour was very jealous of all this greatness
- 12: When the cofferer learned that they were at the gate
- 13: She told Lady Tyrwhitt that Mrs
- 14: Aylmer afterward became a distinguished man
- 15: Illustration LADY JANE GREY AT STUDY
- 16: Northumberland was much alarmed at this
- 17: And that of Anne Boleyn on another
- 18: Northumberland then told him that there was one way
- 19: Northumberland was in a great rage at this
- 20: Northumberland himself was taken prisoner
- 21: The Duke of Suffolk sent to the Tower
- 22: These rumors produced great excitement
- 23: The leader in this plan was Sir Thomas Wyatt
- 24: Wyatt was reserved a little longer
- 25: Until her health was at last seriously impaired
- 26: Courteney's attentions to Elizabeth
- 27: Courteney gave an obvious preference to Elizabeth
- 28: In his confessions he implicated the Princess Elizabeth
- 29: The barge and the boats came down the river
- 30: Illustration ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER
- 31: She arrived finally at Woodstock
- 32: Elizabeth persisted in asserting her innocence
- 33: Her desire to please her Catholic husband
- 34: Then the queen went to Hatfield to visit the princess
- 35: She revived her persecutions of the Protestants
- 36: To the new sovereign at Hatfield
- 37: Elizabeth had known Cecil long before
- 38: And made the air resound with shouts and acclamations
- 39: Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots
- 40: The marriage with Anne Boleyn was null
- 41: Anne Boleyn would in that case
- 42: Who were Catholics like herself
- 43: Leith was strongly fortified in those days
- 44: These commissioners met at Edinburgh
- 45: Elizabeth's attachment to Leicester
- 46: The chief ostensible reason was
- 47: Though she made him Earl of Leicester
- 48: They had hated Leicester before
- 49: And granted him the magnificent castle of Kenilworth
- 50: The name of this agent was Simier
- 51: Elizabeth's fondness for pomp and parade
- 52: Mary had undoubtedly designed the dethronement of Elizabeth
- 53: As long as a hereditary succession goes smoothly on
- 54: When Elizabeth interrupted her
- 55: And threatened violently by Leicester
- 56: Elizabeth evinced her gratitude by turning to her
- 57: The embassador said that Mary was
- 58: They used to call these fleets armada
- 59: Things were in this state in 1585
- 60: Toward the Straits of Magellan
- 61: Drake gave chase to the Cacofogo
- 62: They were to rendezvous finally at Cadiz
- 63: The preparations for the sailing of the great armada
- 64: Illustration THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA
- 65: Robert Cecil and Robert Devereux for that was
- 66: Essex urged his views and wishes with much importunity
- 67: The name of the leader of the rebels was the Earl of Tyrone
- 68: At length the tidings came to her that Essex
- 69: Essex was not restored to office
- 70: Essex standing calmly at the head of them
- 71: Essex himself was excited in the highest degree
- 72: Essex laid his head upon the block
- 73: Even while the trial of Essex was going on
- 74: Harrington replied that he had
- 75: These closets were of the form of small galleries
- 76: Her voice grew fainter and fainter
- 77: In the ancient place of sepulture of the English kings