Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... Refuses to aid the Huguenots, 344. Mission 1 if M. do l'Hopital, 345. Her navy, 356--362. Commands Howard to take the ships into the Channel, 364. Countermands her orders, and disperses the fleet, 366. Again commands her fleet to sail, 368. Appoints Leicester to the land command, 392. Her treat- ment of Howard, and the fleet, 430. Accuses Howard of peculation, 433. Her treatment of Hawkins, 434. Bestows the chancellorship on Hatton, 437. Her relations with the Church, 488. Her con- tempt for the Anglican bishops, 489. Her position analogous to that of Henry IV., 491. Perse- cutes the Puritans, 495, 496. Her death, 503. Her character, 503-- 5"> Elizabeth of France, Philip II.'s offer of his hand to, vi. 184. Mar- ried to him, iqp Ellerkar, Sir Ralph, bis hunting party, ii. 533. Carries the petition of the rebels to the King, 571 EUice, Captain, x. 334 Elphinstone, Nicholas, viii. 303,319; Ix. 191, 193 Elstowe, a preacher, i. 373. Ely, Bishop of. See Coxe; Thirlby Enclosures Commission, iv. 364, 406 Enclosures, Act of, i. 349 England, social state of, in the 16th century, i. 1 et seq. Food and physical strength of the people of, 19, 20. Changes in the art of war, vi. 109. Social changes, 109. Growth of a middle class, 11o. Lord Paget's opinion of the peril of England, iio, 167. State of parties in 1559, 208. Tendencies towards a union between England and Scotland, 217. Social condition of the country in 1560, vii. 9--11. Cecil'sinquiries into the state of the people, 11. State of religion, mo- rality, and the clergy, 13--17. Acts of Parliament of 1563 for the reorganization of society, 44, 45. State of parties in 1564, 173 Sketch of the struggle which trans- ferred the dominion of the sea from Spain to England, viii. 1 et seq....
