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Updated: May 24, 2025
Leicester again turned towards him with looks of unabated ferocity, and the combat would have recommenced with still more desperation on both sides, had not the boy clung to Lord Leicester's knees, and in a shrill tone implored him to listen one moment ere he prosecuted this quarrel. "Stand up, and let me go," said Leicester, "or, by Heaven, I will pierce thee with my rapier!
He made very little mystery either of the crime or of its motives alleging that there was sufficient against him to deprive him of Leicester's confidence, and to destroy all his towering plans of ambition. "I was not born," he said, "to drag on the remainder of life a degraded outcast; nor will I so die that my fate shall make a holiday to the vulgar herd."
Norris himself then stepped forward to the breach, and cried aloud the terms, lest the returning herald, who had been sent back by Leicester, should offer too favourable a capitulation. It was arranged that the soldiers should retire without arms, with white wands in their hands the officers remaining prisoners and that the burghers, their lives, and property, should be at Leicester's disposal.
He had also been disappointed in the government of Zeeland, to which post his uncle had destined him. The cause of Leicester's ambition had been frustrated by the policy of Barneveld and Buys, in pursuance of which Count or Prince Maurice as he was now purposely designated, in order that his rank might surpass that of the Earl had become stadholder and captain general both of Holland and Zeeland.
They were dreading, said Barneveld, a course of crimes similar to those which under the Earl of Leicester's government had afflicted Leyden and Utrecht.
In the same month 1,100 veterans arrived at Dublin under Sir Simon Harcourt; early in February arrived Sir Richard Grenville with 400 horse, and soon after Lieutenant-Colonel George Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, with Lord Leicester's regiment, 1,500 strong.
This was the news which had necessitated the appointment of Maurice of Nassau. The Dutch and English in Sluys fought magnificently. But the dissensions of the opposing parties outside prevented any effective relief. Leicester's arrival did not, mend matters. The operations intended to effect a relief were muddled.
Ill-timed Interregnum in the Provinces Firmness of the English and Dutch People Factions during Leicester's Government Democratic Theories of the Leicestriana Suspicions as to the Earl's Designs Extreme Views of the Calvinists Political Ambition of the Church Antagonism of the Church and States The States inclined to Tolerance Desolation of the Obedient Provinces Pauperism and Famine Prosperity of the Republic The Year of Expectation.
The Effects of her Anger Quarrels between the Earl and the Staten The Earl's three Counsellors Leicester's Finance Chamber Discontent of the Mercantile Classes Paul Buys and the Opposition Been Insight of Paul Buys Truchsess becomes a Spy upon him Intrigues of Buys with Denmark His Imprisonment The Earl's Unpopularity His Quarrels with the States And with the Norrises His Counsellors Wilkes and Clerke Letter from the Queen to Leicester A Supper Party at Hohenlo's A drunken Quarrel Hohenlo's Assault upon Edward Norris Ill Effects of the Riot.
As warm and bright as so much state may be, as delicately redolent of pleasant scents that bear no trace of winter as hothouse flowers can make it, soft and hushed so that the ticking of the clocks and the crisp burning of the fires alone disturb the stillness in the rooms, it seems to wrap those chilled bones of Sir Leicester's in rainbow-coloured wool.
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