Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

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Lucy Aikin. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Table of Contents

PREFACE

MEMOIRS

OF

THE COURT

OF

Volume I

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIIIa

CHAPTER XIIIb

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

MEMOIRS

OF

THE COURT

OF

Volume II

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

ON THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. OF. The Reign of Elizabeth

INDEX

FOOTNOTES:

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Lucy Aikin

Published by Good Press, 2019

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That ill-directed restlessness which formed so striking a feature in the character of Henry VIII. had already prompted him to interfere, as we have seen, on more than one occasion, with the order of succession; and the dangerous consequences of these capricious acts with respect to the several branches of the royal family have already been observed. To the people at large also, his instability on so momentous a point was harassing and alarming, and they became as much at a loss to conjecture what successor, as what religion, he would at last bequeath them.

Under such circumstances, great indeed must have been the joy in the court and in the nation on the occurrence of an event calculated to end all doubts and remove all difficulties—the birth of a prince of Wales.

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