THE

HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO 1839.

AUTHOR OF

BY

THOMAS KEIGHTLEY,

THE HISTORY OF GREECE,"
"HISTORY OF ROME,"
OUTLINES OF HISTORY," &c.

FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.

WITH NOTES, &C.,

BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS
NO. 82 CLIFF STREET.

NARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

. GIFT OF

JAMES STURGIS PRAY

september 15,1977

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

HOUSE OF TUDOR,

CONTINUED.

CHAPTER IX.

ELIZABETH.

1558-1565.

Accession of Elizabeth; her Coronation.-The Reformatior. es-

tablished.-Foreign Affairs.-Affairs of Scotland.-Return of

Mary to Scotland.-Relative Situation of Elizabeth and Mary.

-Suiters to the British Queens.-Mary and Darnley; their

Marriage.-Flight of Murray and his Friends

-

CHAPTER X.

ELIZABETH (CONTINUED).

1566-1571.

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Murder of Rizzio.-Mary's affection for Bothwell.-Murder of the

King.-Proceedings in consequence of it.-Mary marries Both-

well. Association of the Nobles.-Surrender of the Queen;

her Imprisonment and Abdication; her Escape and Flight into

England.-Conference at York and Hampton Court.-Proposed

Marriage with the Duke of Norfolk.-Rising in the North.-

Death and Character of the Regent Murray.-State of Politics.-

Elizabeth excommunicated

CHAPTER XI.

ELIZABETH (CONTINUED).

1571-1587.

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Religious Parties.-Trial and Execution of Norfolk.-Massacre

of St. Bartholomew; its Consequences.-Sir Francis Drake.-

Elizabeth's Coquetry with the Duke of Anjou.-Persecution of