History of England: Elizabeth

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Longmans, Green, 1879
 

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Page 69 - Your mariners," said the Spanish ambassador to Elizabeth, " rob my master's subjects on the sea, and trade where they are forbidden to go ; they plunder our people in the streets of your towns ; they attack our vessels in your very harbours, and take our prisoners from them ; your preachers insult my master from their pulpits ; and when we apply for justice we are answered with threats. " We have borne with these things, attributing them rather to passion or rudeness of manners than to any deliberate...
Page 522 - God came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Saint David was an adulterer, and so was she. Saint David committed murder in slaying Uriah for his wife, and so did she. But what is this to the matter? The more wicked she be, her subjects should pray for her to bring her to the spirit of repentance.
Page 509 - Queen their sovereign objected against them, and their allegiances ; for so much as there has been nothing deduced against them, as yet, that may impair their honour or allegiances ; and, on the other part, there had been nothing sufficiently produced nor shown by them against the Queen, their sovereign, whereby the Queen of England should conceive or take any evil opinion of the Queen, her good sister, for anything yet seen...
Page 30 - Biscay, fired into her, killed her captain's brother and a number of men, and then boarding when all resistance had ceased, sewed up the captain himself and the survivors of the crew in their own sails and flung them overboard.
Page 524 - Darnley ;• thirdly, she matched with the murderer, and brought him to the field to be murdered ; and last of all, she pretended marriage with the Duke, with whom, as he thinks, she would not long have kept • faith, and the Duke should not have had the best days with her.' Well might Doctor Wilson exclaim, ' Lord, what a people are these: what a Queen, and what an ambassador...
Page 141 - The Queen returns this day from Stirling. The Earl of Bothwell hath gathered many of his friends. He is minded to meet her this day, and take her by the way and bring her to Dunbar. Judge ye if it be with her will or no.
Page 235 - I have heard what you have said unto me, I assure you, if you should use this speech unto them, which you do unto me, all the world could not save the queen's life three days to an end ; and as the case now standeth, it will be much ado to save her life.
Page 145 - Bothwell ravish her,2 to the end that she may the sooner end the marriage whilk she promised before she caused Bothwell murder her husband.
Page 96 - my ears have been so astounded, my mind so disturbed, my heart so shocked, at the news of the abominable murder of your late husband, that even yet I can scarcely rally my spirits to write to you ; and however I would express my sympathy in your sorrow for his loss, so, to tell you plainly what I think, my grief is more for you than for him. Oh, Madam, I should ill fulfil...
Page 436 - who call themselves of the religio purissiraa go on increasing. They are the same as Calvinists, and they are styled Puritans because they allow no ceremonies nor any forms save those which are authorized by the bare letter of the Gospel. They will not come to the churches which are used by the rest, nor will they allow their minister to wear any marked or separate She was going on progress at the end of the summer.

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