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and descendants.— Hostility of Spain. - Wylson's translation

of Demosthenes. — Walsingham ambassador to France. -

Treaty with that country.- Massacre of Paris. — Temporiz-

ing conduct of Elizabeth.- Burleigh's calculation of the queen's

nativity. — Notice of Philip Sidney.

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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

,