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a28556	The Character of Queen Elizabeth, or, A full and clear account of her policies, and the methods of her government both in church and state her virtue and defects, together with the characters of her principal ministers of state, and the greatest part of the affairs and events that happened in her times / collected and faithfully represented by Edmund Bohun, Esquire.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Johnston, Robert, 1567?-1639. Historia rerum britannicarum.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3448; ESTC R4143	162,628	414

freed thereby from all fear of Foreign or Domestick Dangers she made it her next great business to reform the Religion of England She foresaw that if she suffered Popery to continue she could never establish her own Government Therefore she resolved with pious and holy care to establish the Reformation that had been begun by her Father and carried on by her Brother and to suppress and eradicate by degrees by the Authority of her Parliaments without force or violence the Popish Superstition which she esteemed a Corrupt and Immoderate Religion and equally i●…jurious to Princes and their Subjects In these times the contending Religions were so near an Equality and so balanced each against other that the Authority of the Prince was able to turn the scale Henry the VIIIth was able to settle a Mongrel sort of Popery Edward the VIth advanced this to a thorough Reformation Queen Mary without much difficulty re-setled the old Mass of unrefined Popery And now when it was become ten times more hated than before on the account of the Perfidy and Bloodshed that had been employed to establish it Queen Elizabeth comes upon the stage resolved to use all her Skill and Authority for the intire Extirpation of it and the People readily and willingly complied with her in it or rather in truth led her the way and were a little too hot on the work She presently summoned a Parliament which was opened the 25th of January after her Accession to the Crown the great Design of which was To put an end to the Distractions of the Nation in matters of Religion and to that end by the Lord Keeper Bacon she desired They would consider of it without heat or partial affection or using any reproachful terms of Papist or Heretick and that they would avoid the Extremes of Idolatry and Superstition on the one hand and Contempt and Irreligion on the other and that they would settle things so as might bring the People to an Uniformity and cordial Agreement in them And as to the State she promised she would use her utmost endeavour to advance the Prosperity and preserve the Affections of her Subjects And tho she had need then of their Assistance yet she professed she would desire no Supply but what they did freely and chearfully offer And at the same time she represented Calais as a thing which they could not at that time hope to recover Thus she would neither wheedle nor deceive her Subjects but with an English Sincerity laid before them the Truth of the Case and left it to God to direct them to what was best to be done The Houses having heard and well considered what was offered on both sides came at last to a full Resolution That all the Acts and Laws of Mary her Sister in favour of the Romish Religion should be Repealed That the good Laws of Edward the VIth and Henry the VIIIth in favour of the Reformation should be Revived and Confirmed That the Mass which had been Restored by the Laws ena●…ted in Queen Mary's time should be Abolished as a thing that was full of Vanity and Levity That all Images should be taken away out of the Churches And all use of Holy Water That the Liturgy and Publick Prayers should be all performed in the English Tongue and by a Form prescribed and then by Act of Parliament Confirmed and Allowed as it had been before in her Brother's Reign that so the People having a full and clear knowledg of the Service of the Church might the better and more devoutly join both Voice and Heart in it By this her prudent Care she gave the Romish Church one of the most mortal Wounds she ever received from any hand by Rupudiating and Despising Abolishing and Exposing all her Pagan Pageantry and Jewish Ceremonies She commanded all her Magistrates to take effectual Care That the Romish Religion should not be exercised in Publick or in any open Churches or Chappels That all the Priests which should exercise the Romish Rites and Ceremonies should be excluded out of the Church and deprived of their Benefices That they should exercise at all times a severe and wholesom Discipline That the minds of men might thereby be reclaimed from Vice and fixed in the true Worship of God She commanded them to get as many of the Popish Books together as they could possibly and burn them and that they should take away and destroy all the Preparations and Vestments belonging to the Mass all the Images and all other the Ceremonies of that Church She commanded That for the future no Respect or Obedience should be paid to the Pope as the Head of the Church Nor did she scruple to assume the Authority of a Governour of the Church in her own Dominions in all cases Sacred and Civil which is called with us The ECCLESIASTICAL SUPREMACY And she abolished by Act of Parliament all that Authority and Jurisdiction which had heretofore been Usurped or used by the Bishops of Rome in this Kingdom in Publick or in Private which is called the Popish Tyranny and was a pretended Supreme both Spiritual and Secular Jurisdiction She also restored the Oath of Supremacy which had been first introduced by Henry VIII her Father continued by Edward VI. her Brother and was taken away and abolished by ●…ueen Mary by which she was acknowledged to be the Supreme Governor in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal within her Dominions and that they renounced all Foreign Power and Jurisdiction and should bear the Queen Faith and True Allegiance She declined the use of the word Supreme Head in this Oath which had been used before by her Brother and Father both in Reverence to our Saviour to whom she thought that Title only belonged and also to abate by this Verbal Compliance the Reluctance she feared from the Popish Party For if she gained her Point she was unconcerned for the Form of Words as all Wife Princes ever were Against the Passing this Act Nine Bishops and Two Peers Protested viz. the Earl of Shrewsbery and Viscount Montacute and they added some words which were very injurious to the Queen and the States but she wisely dissembled it and gave them no disturbance on that account The Popish Bishops and Priests in the mean time were not idle and unconcerned Spectators but being agitated by Hopes and Fears and a confused Expectation what would be the Event of these Counsels they made loud and bitter Complaints That men were drawn away from the Ancient and Established Roman Rites and Ceremonies That Christ's Vicar the POPE was robb'd of his Supremacy and Divine Jurisdiction That the Reverence to the Holy and Apostolick See was brought to nothing and that now the Pope's Authority was despised intolerable Heresies were daily minted So they endeavoured to retain the Nation in the Profession of their Religion and to uphold their Ceremonies by any means and when this failed to alienate the minds of the People

from the Queen and to dispose them to Sedition and Rebellion The Queen saw the Tendence of this and did not think it was fit to despise their Complaints That therefore she might prevent the ill effects of their Malice and withdraw the matter that fed their Fury and threatned her Kingdom with Schisms and Factions which would be the Causes of great Calamities she appointed a Conference or Disputation between the Roman Catholicks and the Protestants at London Concerning the Authority of the Church and the Supremacy of the Pope the Ceremonies in use in the Church of Rome and the Change of the Elements in the Holy Eucharist that she might by this means unite the disagreeing minds of her Subjects in one and the same opinion and mutual Love and Charity to each other In this Conference many of the most reverend Mysteries of the Christian Religion were on both sides debated with great Warmth and Heat and much Learning yet nothing was gained on either side by reason of the immoderate Opposition and the implacable Hatred they bore each to other So when the Popish Party saw that the Pope's Authority which was once reverenced as Divine was now become contemptible and infamous 2nd that all the Reasons they could pretend for the Justification of their Ceremonies were overwhelmed by the load of Infamy their Pride and Cruelty had brought upon them so that it was not possible for them to abate the Hatred or remove the Contempt the people were then possessd with against the Popish Clergy they sullenly pretended That in the Matters of Religion there was no need of Reason and Disputation and defended themselves with more Passion and Anger than Reason and Judgment After this Disputation there were Acts of Parliament passed for the Establishing the English Service and concerning the Ministers of the Church as also for Restoring the Queen's Supremacy with the unanimous Consent of the Peers and the Applause of the Commons But however the Popish Party refused still to comply and openly said These Laws were not to be submitted to and thereupon began a Dissention which is not yet ended The turbulent Bishops and Clergy who still adhered to the old Rites and Ceremonies being thereupon bereaved of their Sees made great Complaints of the Iniquity and Injustice of these Laws and concealing themselves as well as they could in corners and lurking-holes for fear of being prosecuted for their disobedience they said the Queen was guilty of Heresie and solicited that part of the Nobility and Commonalty which still stuck to the Church of Rome to renounce their Obedience to her and stoutly to maintain the Old Service They also sent their Agents to Rome to perswade the Pope to Excommunicate her by Name as one that had brought a New Heresie into the Church and had confined the Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln and many of the inferior Clergy for sticking firmly to the Romish Ceremonies And lastly That she had assumed a Jurisdiction and Royal Authority as well in all Spiritual Causes as Secular The Queen on the other side had by this time found the Inclination of her People and being now well setled in her Throne did not think fit to act any longer with that Reservedness she did at first when she feared the Number and Authority of the Papists who had then the Law on their side but by her Proclamation she couragiously and openly commanded them That they should embrace the True Religion which was most acceptable to God and leave their Popish Rites or otherwise depart out of her Kingdoms Royal City and Dominions within so many months And upon this she removed all those Popish Noblemen which had in her Sister's time been advanced to any Publick Employments or Stations in the Court or Kingdom and she setled Protestants in all those Places and put the whole Management of Publick Affairs into their hands affirming very stoutly That she would sooner lay down her life than desist from that Zeal and Resolution she had taken up for the bringing down the Wickedness of the Papists This Bravery encouraged all her Friends and struck her Enemies dumb Thus was the Popish Religion abolished in England when it had flourished many Ages in great Wealth by the help of a profitable Ignorance and a fallacious and deceitful Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures And the Protestant Religion being restored to that Liberty Esteem and Splendor it had had in the times of Edward the VIth it was soon after by the means of their common Language and Vicinity communicated to the Scots and spread it self not only in their Cities and great Towns but also in their Villages and Countrey Habitations It is impossible to the Life to describe the Calamities this Revolution brought upon the Scots Nation The most sacred and venerable Churches which seem'd to be secured from Violence by the Awe of Religion were burnt down the most sacred Chappels were first Rifled and then Demolished by the Rabble The Sepulchres of their Ancestors were pulled down their Statues beaten down and trodden under foot and the basest and most lewd Injuries done to the Altars as if the Papists had been mere Pagan Idolaters I am so enraged saith my Author a Learned Scot against these men on the account of the great Ruin they wrought in my Native Countrey that I cannot forbear expressing my Resentment For I am of opinion That these Popish Mo●…ments ought indeed to have been shut up not to have been demolished because they were the Ornaments of our Countrey But to teturn to Queen Elizabeth she made it no part of her business to find out those peaceable Ro●…ish Priests who had betaken themselves to private lurking holes and secret places more out of Fear than any Legal necessity And if any of them by chance happened to be taken they were committed to an honourable and easie restraint in the Cities or delivered up into the hands of their own Bishops to the end that by this her Moderation she might in the beginning of her Reign create an opinion of her Clemency in all her Subjects and at the same time deprive these Priests of the opportunity of doing Mischief There was not one of these men put to death till Pope Pi●…s the Vth in the year 1570 excommunicated her by his Bull upon which there followed a Rebellion of the Papists in the No●…th This was in the Twelfth Year of her Reign and in the next Ten Years that followed there was but Twelve men of that Religion executed who were all Convicted of very great Crimes by the most Legal Trials The name of Papist was not punished in any man that was not guilty of great Wickednesses because in the beginning of a Reign it is a dangerous thing to punish Offences with too much Rigor whereas Clemency is of good use And she accordingly took care by her Benefits to allure the minds of her Popish Subjects to her rathet than by Cruelties to fright them

Thus the Entrance of her Reign was made happy and blessed and she was able by the Blessing of God to settle her Religion and to lay the Foundations of a Long Peace at Home and Abroad Having thus totally abolished all that Papal Superstition and Pomp which for so many Ages had domineered over the English so that there was scarce any sign left that it had once been here her first and greatest care was to advance men of Piety and Learning to the Bishopricks and Preferments in the Church There were many Protestant Clergy-men of great Integrity and Honesty Innocency and Holiness who during the Marian Persecution had fled into Germany or being driven from their Churches lurked up and down the Nation in obscure and remote places these she recalled and restored to their former or better Stations with more honour than they had been in before So that after a Recess of Five years Duration thesemen who had been banished with Ignominy were with Honour and Reputation repossessed of their Countrey their Good Names and their Liberties and Fortunes She re granted to them all their Ancient Privileges with some Improvements and she took such as were of good report for their Learning and exemplary Lives and set them to Govern the Church as BISHOPS When any man was commended to her as a man of Learning she would ask if there were not others to be found of more Learning and Piety to whose Authority Fidelity and Prudence she might recommend the Care of the Church She took great care to curb the immoderate Liberty of the PURITANS who licentiously began to sow Discords and Divisions in the Church and with a Fiery Zeal in their Preachments endeavoured to excite the common people who were then quiet and at ease to Sedition by declaiming against the Jurisdiction and Authority of the Bishops and by her Prudence and Authority she reduced many of the first Leaders from their rash courses to a moderate Temper In the Eighteenth year of her Reign A. C. 1575. the Anabaptists first appeared or at least were discovered to be in England a Conventicle of Dutch-men of that Sect being then detected without Aldgate in London and Twenty seven of the Meeters were taken up and Imprisoned of which Four bearing Faggots at Paul's Cross recanted their dangerous Opinions and one Dutch-man and ten Women were condemned to be burnt one of the Ten Women also recanted eight others were banished but two of the number continued so obstinate that the Queen ordered the Writ de Heretico Comburendo to be issued against them tho Mr. John Fox the Author of the Book of Martyrs interceded with the Queen to spare their lives and banish them In this Letter he blesseth God that none of the English were infected with these m●…d Opinions And saith he I will most readily grant That these FANATICK Sects are by no means to be cherished in any State but are to be severely corrected but to exterminate them with Fire and Faggot is I think too hard The Queen thereupon gave them a Months Reprieve and ordered that Learned Divines should endeavour in that time to reduce them which proving without effect these two were burnt in Smithfield the 22d of July and they died in great horror with crying and roaring In the Twenty sixth Year of her Reign one Robert Brown an English Clergy-man began a new Sect also in the City of Norwich his Hearers being half Dutch half English The Queen endeavoured to suppress this Schism in its Rise and prohibited his Books but that not taking effect Thacker and Coping two of his Disciples were hanged at St. Edmonds-Bury in Suffolk The Queen was the more severe upon these Sects because her Subjects were then untainted and these men made it their business to draw in the unlearned multitude and enflame them both against the Eccle siastick and Civil Government and the Queen besides having before this time been forced to be very severe against some Popish Traitors that had conspired against her she did not think it became her to be less concerned for the Majesty of God than for her own Personal Safety After this she caused their Conventicles to be carefully watched and seized the Effects of all Foreign Sectaries she found in England She dealt more gently in the mean time with the English Puritans who were the first beginners of the English Separation and left them to the Discipline of the Bishops and the High Commission where they were often call'd to account for Reproaching the Church Licentious Preachments and Libelling the Bishops in their Prints Having taken these effectual Cares for the Adorning and Confirming the Church she committed all the other Concerns of Religion to the Management of Peaceable Moderate and Judicious men and spent her whole Care and Solicitude in preserving adorning and strengthning her State and Kingdoms In all this time she was never severe against Any Papist who had not first been clearly convicted to have raised Sedition armed the People against her or by Rumors and false Insinuations to have endeavoured to render the Queen odious and contemptible to her People PIUS IV. Pope of Rome in the beginning of her Reign A. C. 1561. having deeply considered the Dangers and Ruin which then threatned the Papacy and Church of Rome though he was enraged against the Protestants to the utmost degree yet seeing how little the Passions and Violences of the last Pope Paul IV. had profited them he thought it became him to act a contrary part and ●…called the Council of TRENT which had been some years before indicted by the Authority of the See of Rome rather for the up●…olding the Pope's pretended Ecclesiastical Authority than for the promoting the Salvation of men and which when things succeeded contrary to the expectation of his Predecessors in that See had been frequently intermitted and had not been assembled since the year 1552 but was now again renewed as the only means left for the healing the Wounds of Christendom In this Council many things which had by the Mistakes Ambition and Avarice of the Popes of Rome been changed and corrupted were considered and debated and particularly that grand Question was to be determined Concerning the Authority and Power of the Pope in Sacred and Civil Ca●…ses When the Protestant Princes were call'd to this Council they answered That they did not own the Pope had any Power to call a Council That it did not belong to him but to the Emperor to Indict Councils That he had no Right to give or take away Kingdoms And having sharply declaimed against the corrupt Manners of his Clergy and deplored the Calamities of the times on that account they represented the Pride Pomp Luxury Ambition Avarice and Cruelty of the Court of Rome in which mere Wolves took upon them the Office of the Pastors of the Church And they said this Council at Trent was not called to Establish Religion and true Piety

but to confirm the Inventions of men or rather of Satan not for the reforming the Lives and Manners of men but to defend the Pretended Dignity of the See of Rome and the vast and boundless Authority of the Pope That it was not intend●…d for the Purging the Christian Flock but for the Establishing and Confirming their inveterate Errors Tho the Pope had had these sharp Replies from the German Protestant Princes and the Guise's and Spanish Faction had represented to him That it would be an undervaluing of his Power and Person to send a Nuncio to England where he would certainly be rejected yet Pius IV. would not be discouraged but said He would humble himself even to Heresie it self in regard that whatsoever was done to gain Souls to Christ did beseem that See And accordingly he sent Abbot Martiningo to the Queen who came as far as Flanders and there he met with her Commands not to cross the Seas but at his Peril and altho the King of Spain and the Emperor of Germany did earnestly intreat he might be heard yet the Queen stood her ground and replied That she could not treat with the Bishop of Rome whose Authority was for ever excluded out of England by Act of Parliament Nay she would give the Pope's Nuncio no other Answer but a flat Denial tho she gave this reason to the French and Spaniards to give them some satisfaction For she well perceived this Remedy did not tend to the healing the Wounds of the Church but to the making them incurable and the Event justified her Conduct In the mean time the Queen clearly foresaw that the Restoring the Protestants to their Native Countrey and their former Stations would disoblige all the Popish Nobility of England who tho for the present they suppressed their Resentment yet when occasion was offered they would not fail to do her the utmost Mischief that was in their Power The only noise of the coming of a Nuncio from the Pope encouraged many to break the Laws made against the Pope and his Authority with great boldness and they spread false Reports abroad That the Queen was going to change her Religion and alter the Government of the Realm to dispose the Protestants to join with the Papists in a Rebellion to her Ruin She saw also that at length she should be involved in a Foreign War and that the Pope would fulminate against her all which Dangers the Greatness of her Soul despised She also changed her Privy-Council into which she chose Protestants of famed Prudence and Moderation and she openly and avowedly broke the Power and lessened the Authority of her Popish Nobility and Gentry The Pope having at this time sent a Legate into Ireland who had joined himself to some desperate Traytors then in Rebellion against her and endeavouring to deprive her of all Right and Title to that Kingdom Some others of that Persuasion were found also to have practised with the Devil by Conjurations Charms and casting Figures to be informed of the Length and Continuance of her 〈◊〉 but Heaven would not and Hell could not help them The Affairs of the Church being thus setled she applied her mind to restore the Civil State of England to its Ancient Strength and Happiness it having been strangely shaken by the Factions and Divisions in the Three Reigns that preceded hers To this purpose she passed many Acts of Parliament and other State-Orders for her own Security and the Welfare of her Subjects She made some new Additions to the old Laws for the better Administration of her Civil Government for the Promoting the common Interest of her Subjects or for the Regu lating her Parliaments She enriched her Kingdom also and whereas she found a great part of the current Money of England adulterared and mixed with Brass she reduced it all to the old Standard and made it good STERLING She furnished all her Havens Sea-Ports Cities and Frontier places with Garisons Forts Castles Cannon Ball Gun powder and Provisions She took care to have her own Gunpowder made in England which before had been fetch'd in from abroad She cast great quantities of Brass and Iron Ordnance after she had discovered a plentiful Mine of Brass at KESWICK in Cumberland She fortified BERWICK anew and caused all the Frontier places towards Scotland to be repaired and placed Garisons of good Soldiers in them Tho she was upon better terms with the Scots than any of her Ancestors for many Ages had been especially after they embraced the Reformed Religion yet she would not so wholly rely on their good affections as to neglect a timely provision for her own Security And when all these great Designs had brought a Debt upon the Crown she chose rather to sell a part of her Crown-Lands to pay it than be over-burthensome to her People She ordered also the Debts contracted by her Father and Brother but neglected by her Sister to be paid She provided a great Magazine and furnished her Kingdom with plentiful Stores of Arms and Ammunition and all sorts of Warlike Provisions that she might always have at hand whatever was needful to secure her against the sudden Insults of her Foreign Enemies or any Insurrections which might be raised at home She caused her Forces to be often drawn out viewed and mustered and with Honours and other Rewards she recompenced those that in this kind had deserved well of her by which she much encouraged her Soldiers and Sea-men She encreased her Fleet and built many large Men of War and furnished her Naval Stores with whatever was needful and she encreased the Wages of her Mariners and Seamen and appointed a Guard of Ships to ride always in the Downs for the Security of the British Seas and carefully scoured the Seas by her Men of War and purged them from Pyrates and Sea-Robbers so that in all her time the Seas were secure safe and open Dr. Heylin in his History of the Reformation acquaints us that she began these Preparations in the year 1560. Ahd that holding it a safer Maxim in the Schools of Policy not to Admit than to endeavour by strong hand to Expel an Enemy she entertained the fortunate thoughts of Walling her Kingdom round about with a puissant Navy for ou●… Merchants had already encreased their Shipping by managing some part of that Wealthy Trade which formerly had been Monopolized by the Hanse-Towns or Easterlings And thereupon she resolved not to be wanting to her self in Building Ships of such Burthen and so fit for Service as might enable her in a short time not only to Protect her Merchants but to Command the Ocean Of which the Spaniard found good proof to his great Loss and almost to his total Ruin in the last Twenty years of her Glorious Government At the same time by her Proclamation dated November 15. 1560. she commanded all the Easterling Flemish and Spanish Moneys to be brought into the Mint

never granting them upon Caprice to shew her Absolute Power upon the Intercession of Favourites or the Letters of Great men to those that were mean and neither deserved nor could maintain the Grandeur of that Noble Title She set a high Value upon the most Noble Order of the Garter and took the utmost care to keep it as the sincerest Reward of an extraordinary Fidelity Industry and Nobility and therefore she would never suffer it to be in the least corrupted by any mixture of mean persons Tho the Lord Burleigh was her Principal Councellor and the First Mover in all her greater Affairs without whose advice she would rarely resolve upon any thing of moment and he had deserved so very well of her by his unparallel'd Care Labour and Vigilance yet because he was but a Gentleman born and a Peer of her own Creation only it was very long before she could persuade her self to take him into the Order of the Garter which has flourished now Three hundred years and more and has in all times been given to the Greatest and Best of the Nobility at Home for the best Services they could do for their Princes and Countrey or to Foreign Princes Abroad who were united to us by the most strict and indearing Bonds of Friendship and Interest She gave Governments Magistracies Court-Offices and other Places of Trust Reputation and Profit to those that deserved well of her that by the example of these Rewards she might provoke others to imitate their Fidelity and Industry She would never endure that any man she employed should raise to himself an odious or oppressive Gain either from the Power or Office she had given him If she observed a man to do nothing but for Money she would never trust him and as for any Offices or Governments she took care to keep them as much as was possible out of such men's hands Yet she was not too hard to or suspicious of her Servants she extended her Favour to all those she found good men and her Friendship and Kindness was lasting to all those she found honest thrifty sober men but then in Law-Suits she would not suffer any the least distinction to be made between her Servants and Favourites and the rest of her Subjects lest they being exalted by it above measure should any way endanger the common Liberty of her People or the Publick Peace and Safety She raised Sadler from nothing Mildmay and Fortescue from mean Fortunes to the Honour of Knighthood and made them Privy Councellors for their good Services and lest that Dignity should suffer by the meanness of their Estates she gave them a Competency by way of Addition to what they had before She would always remember to Reward those well that had served her faithfully as her Ambassadors in Foreign Courts And she raised many of her servants for their Fidelity and protected others of them from the Violence of Great Men She protected Sir Thomas Knevet from the Violence of the Earl of Oxford who to revenge a Wound he had received from Sir Thomas in a Duel was mustering up all his Friends and Servants to destroy him which the Queen prevented by giving him a Guard for some time She so effectually recommended the Cause of her Bishops to her people when they were attacked by the Clamours and Reproaches of the Puritans that nothing was more dear to the Multitude than their Bishops and no Name was more Popular or beloved than theirs so that all men stood up for their Dignity and Authority She curbed the Boldness Rage and Fury of these Pretenders to Godliness by Laws well and severely executed and she made it her business to preserve the Church to the utmost of her Power as well from the Disturbance of Seditious Preachers within as the Insults of Declared Enemies without Her Motto was Semper eadem Always the same and in this affair she took the greatest care to verify it never departing one tittle from what she had once setled or changing the Methods she had established but upon great reason She had a very great Love for Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State who was one of the Pillars of her Kingdom and so intent upon the Preservation of the Publick Safety and the Discovery of the Designs of her Enemies against her Person and Government that he took little care of his own private Family and made no provision for those he left behind him But then it was hardly well taken by the body of the Nation to see the most part of his Inheritance sold after his death to repay those Moneys to the Treasury which he had spent in the Queen's Service The Envy of which however fell heaviest upon the Treasurer and the Earl of Leicester who were none of his Friends whilst he lived and took this opportunity to revenge the Affronts they had received from him She had also a particular favour for Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal who was the Ornament of the Court and the great Luminary of Westminster-Hall She highly esteemed Egerton and Popham But above all her other Councellors and Ministers of State she valued Burleigh the Lord Treasurer and Howard the Lord Admiral of England the Ornament of his own Family and a strange Example of Modesty Civility and Liberality These men enjoyed her Favour to the last and were ever of great Authority with her She loved a Prudent and Moderate Habit in her private Apartment and conversation with her ownServants but when she appeared in Publick she was ever richly adorn'dwith the most valuable cloaths set off again with much gold and Jewels of inestimable Value and on such occasions she ever wore High Shooes that she might seem Taller than indeed she was The first day of the Parliament she would appear in a Robe Embroidered with Pearls the Royal Crown upon her Head the Golden Ball in her Left-hand and the Scepter in her Right and as she never failed then of the loud Acclamations of her People so she was ever pleased with it and went to the House in a kind of Triumph with all the Ensigns of Majesty There was at such times so great a Concourse of the People to see and salute the Queen that many were trodden down and some have been lamed The Royal Name was ever venerable●… to the English Nation but this Quee●… was more sacred than any of her Ancestors She alone was able to furnish her whole Sex with the Examples of Chastity Temperance and all other Vertues And she was very vigilant to keep her Family and Court in severe Discipline She persuaded all Married Women to pay a modest Respect to their Husbands as to their Superiors She kept a severer Guard upon her own desires than upon those of others that were about her so that by degrees she made them seem at least like her self because she ever laboured so to have them She banished from her Court all