Queen Elizabeth - Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

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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 H ARPER & B OTRRSHE , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Copyright, 1876, by J ACOB A BBOTT .

S IR F ARCNIS D RAKE .

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 MOTHER13 II. THE CHILDHOOD OF A PRINCESS39 III. LADY JANE GREY57 IV. THE SPANISH MATCH81 V. ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER100 VI. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE120 VII. THE WAR IN SCOTLAND141 VIII. ELIZABETH'S LOVERS161 IX. PERSONAL CHARACTER187 X. THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA208 XI. THE EARL OF ESSEX232 XII. THE CONCLUSION260

 

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PORTRAIT OF DRAKEFrontispiece PORTRAIT OF HENRY VIII16 PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN20 GROUP OF CHRISTENING GIFTS25 TOWER OF LONDON31 PORTRAIT OF EDWARD VI.44 LADY JANE GREY AT STUDY63 PORTRAIT OF PHILIP OF SPAIN84 ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER112 ELIZABETH'S PROGRESS TO LONDON135 THE FIRTH OF FORTH, WITH LEITH AND EDINBURGH IN THE DISTANCE156 LEICESTER169 THE BARGES ON THE RIVER182 PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH203 THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA229 THE HOUSE OF THE EARL OF ESSEX242 ELIZABETH IN HER LAST HOURS270 HEAD OF JAMES I.275 ELIZABETH'S TOMB279

QUEEN ELIZABETH C HAPTER I. E LIZABETH ' S M OTHER . 1533-1536 T ot eht t f oambeaste thy  o ,madrettoR morrn fretueir n thisnocxrunae or m varn ascendelers, ihTmaseb ni ght e reenG.hciw   The hospital. Rhine, have often their attention strongly attracted by what Its inmates. appears to be a splendid palace on the banks of the river at Greewncih Greenwich. The edifice is not a palace, however, but a sbreavotry.O hospital, or, rather, a retreat where the worn out, maimed, Manner of taking and crippled veterans of the English navy spend the time. remnant of their days in comfort and peace, on pensions allowed them by the government in whose service they have spent their strength or lost their limbs. The magnificent buildings of the hospital stand on level land near the river. Behind them there is a beautiful park, which extends over the undulating and rising ground in the rear; and on the summit of one of the eminences there is the famous Greenwich Observatory, on the precision of whose quadrants and micrometers depend those calculations by which the navigation of the world is guided. The most unconcerned and careless spectator is interested in the manner in which the ships which throng the river all the way from Greenwich to London, "take their time" from this observatory before setting sail for distant seas. From the top of a cupola surmounting the edifice, a slender pole ascends, with a black ball upon it, so constructed as to slide up and down for a few feet upon the pole. When the hour of 12 M. approaches, the ball slowly rises to within a few inches of the top, warning the ship-masters in the river to be ready with their chronometers, to observe and note the precise instant of its fall. When a few seconds only remain of the time, the ball ascends the remainder of the distance by a very deliberate motion, and then drops suddenly when the instant arrives. The ships depart on their several destinations, and for months afterward when thousands of miles away they depend for their safety in dark and stormy nights, and among dangerous reefs and rocky shores, on the nice approximation to correctness in the note of time which this descending ball had given them.

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Portrait of Henry VIII This is Greenwich, as it exists at the present day. At the time when the events occurred which are to be related in Henry the Eighth. this narrative, it was most known on account of a royal Hsictraha c sis . H er seviw xi. palace which was situated there. This palace was the   residence of the then queen consort of England. The king reigning at that time was Henry the Eighth. He was an unprincipled and cruel tyrant, and the chief business of his life seemed to be selecting and marrying new queens, making room for each succeeding one by discarding, divorcing, or beheading her predecessor. There were six of them in all, and, with one exception, the history of each one is a distinct and separate, but dreadful tragedy. As there were so many of them, and they figured as queens each for so short a period, they are commonly designated in history by their personal family names, and even in these names there is a great similarity. There were three Catharines, two Annes, and a Jane. The only one who lived and died in peace, respected and beloved to the end, was the Jane.

Portrait of Anne Boleyn. Queen Elizabeth, the subject of this narrative, was the daughter of the second wife in this strange succession, and leyn. Catharine of oB ennA her mother was one of the Annes. Her name in full was A Anne Boleyn. She was young and very beautiful, and arog.n nH rri

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