Page of the Catholic Governments inadvertently betrayed to Other Schemes of repressing the Heresies of the Age; A General Council 343 346 347 Eluded by the Court of Rome a Quarter of a Century after 349 351-354 354-360 VOL. III. CHAP. I. FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. 21 24 31 34 Marriage of Mary Stuart to the Dauphin Philip II. solicits the Hand of Elizabeth 1559, 1560. 1561. Relations with the See of Rome; Bull of Paul IV. 1561-1567. Proposals of Marriage to Queen Elizabeth and Mary Marriage, Character, and Death of Lady Catherine Grey 1565. 1566. Elizabeth forms a Party in Scotland Death of Francis II.; Mary returns to Scotland Proposals of Marriage to her Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots with Lord Darnley David Rizzio 48 - 51 58 61 62 64 Darnley coalesces with the Scottish Protestant Lords 75 77 Flight of Bothwell, and Imprisonment of the Queen of Attempted Escape of the Queen of Scots, and its Failure 107 Assassination of the Regent Moray Proceedings against the Queen of Scots in England - 127 - 129 131 et seq. 134 - 140 142 1571, 1572. Her Relations with the Duke of Norfolk; the Duke's Trial and Execution Bold Tone of the Puritans in the House of Commons 1566-1575. The Queen's Progresses; Visit to Sir Thomas Gresham; the Royal Exchange built 1567-1585. Spirit of Maritime Discovery Drake's Voyage round the Globe 175 et seq. - 182 CHAP. IV. 1565-1577. A. D. 1565. Page Progress of Calvinism on the Continent, - to the Interview Authority of Margaret of Valois, Marshal Tavanes, and 227 228 et seq. Its Effects on the Situation of Mary Queen of Scots - 243 War in the Low Countries; Alva recalled, and succeeded by Requesens Conduct of Elizabeth Defeat of the Netherlanders; Two Brothers of the Prince 254 et seq. 255 1576. Sovereignty of the States offered to Elizabeth, and de- 259 Death of Requesens, who is succeeded by Don John of 261 et seq. Secret Project of Don John against England The Duke of Anjou (Alençon) invited to the Low Coun Proscription of the Prince of Orange, and his "Apology" 276 276 A. D. Page - 281, 282 Anjou's Return to the Low Countries; his Treachery, 1581. 283 And against Puritans The Jesuit Campion and others tortured, condemned, and 1583,1584. High ecclesiastical Commission Court 283 - 285 - 288 - 290 - 293 Employment of Spies, Informers, and forged Letters Association for the Queen's Safety against popish Con - 293 296 Incapacity of Leicester as Commander-in-chief and Go HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAP. I. ELIZABETH. FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. 1558-1561. WHEN the lords and commons, assembled under Mary's writs of summons, met on the 17th of November, 1558, they found parliament, according to the ancient constitution, legally dissolved by the decease of the sovereign who had called it together. The lords, however, desired the attendance of the members of the house of commons to receive an important communication; and when they came to the bar, archbishop Heath, the chancellor, desired their concurrence, as considerable men of the realm, in the solemnities which the de mise of the crown required. "The cause of your calling hither," said he to those who had just ceased to be the knights, citizens, and burgesses, "is to signify to you that the lords are certified that God has this morning called to his mercy our late sovereign; a mishap heavy and grievous to us; but we have no less cause to rejoice that God has left unto us a true, lawful, and right inheritress in the person of the lady Elizabeth, of whose title to the same (thanks be to God) we need not to doubt."* Wherefore * Holinshed, iv. 155. The information in the Journals is scanty. |