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"Her Highness," said Burghley, "cannot be induced, by any writing or harangue that you can make, to accept the principality or proprietorship as sovereign, and it will therefore be labour lost for you to exhibit any writing for the purpose of changing her intention. It will be better to content yourselves with her Majesty's consent to assist you, and to take you under her protection."

There had been much delay in the arrival of those deputies, on account of the noise raised by Barneveld and his followers; but Burghley was now sanguine that the exposure of what he called the Advocate's seditious, false, and perverse proceedings, would enable Leicester to procure the consent of the States to a universal peace.

In a long note he commented upon the Bishop's inclination to resist, and showed how the "proud prelate" was "brought to reason by means so instructive on Elizabeth's mode of conducting business when she had not Burghley or Walsingham to keep her in order that" the whole account is given at length in the words of Lord North, whom she employed for the purpose.

After that event, Buckhurst emerged from confinement, received the order of the garter and the Earldom of Dorset, and on the death of Burghley succeeded that statesman in the office of Lord-Treasurer. Such was the substantial recognition of the merits of a man who was now disgraced for the conscientious discharge of the most important functions that had yet been confided to him.

That man must have been a subtle negotiator who could outwit such a statesman as Burghley and the other counsellors of Elizabeth, and a bold one who could dare to trifle on a momentous occasion with Alexander of Parma.

This, so far as Walsingham could divine, and Burghley fathom, was the present intention of the Queen. He averred that he had ever sought most painfully to conform his conduct to her instructions as fast as they were received, and that he should continue so to do.

In consequence of the representations of Norris, those of Signor Grafigni, and those by way of Antwerp, his Highness determined to send me to England." Burghley to Croft. "Did you order your servant to speak with Andrea de Loo?" Croft. "I cannot deny it." Burghley. "The fellow seems to have travelled a good way out of his commission.

Leicester's Letters to his Friends Paltry Conduct of the Earl to Davison He excuses himself at Davison's Expense His Letter to Burghley Effect of the Queen's Letters to the States Suspicion and Discontent in Holland States excuse their Conduct to the Queen Leicester discredited in Holland Evil Consequences to Holland and England Magic: Effect of a Letter from Leicester The Queen appeased Her Letters to the States and the Earl She permits the granted Authority Unhappy Results of the Queen's Course Her variable Moods She attempts to deceive Walsingham Her Injustice to Heneage His Perplexity and Distress Humiliating Position of Leicester His melancholy Letters to the Queen He receives a little Consolation And writes more cheerfully The Queen is more benignant The States less contented than the Earl His Quarrels with them begin.

Lord Burghley could hardly be censured least of all ridiculed for the patient and somewhat timid attributes of his nature: The ineffable ponderings, which might now be ludicrous, on the part of a minister of the British Empire, with two hundred millions of subjects and near a hundred millions of revenue, were almost inevitable in a man guiding a realm of four millions of people with half a million of income.

In spite of their care, it would seem that the Argus-eyed Walsingham had been able to see after sunset; for, the next evening after Bodman had been introduced with the same precautions to the same company, in the same place Burghley, before a word had been spoken, sent for Sir Francis.