The British nation a history / by George MWrong . of j^rofound sagacity, like /oMsellOTs. *^^^ ^^illiim Cecil, afterward Lord Burgliley,and Sir Thomas Walsingham. Burghley was sedate, far-sighted, free from passion, unscrupulous, but wholly true to hisroyal mistress, whoalways treated hiniwith more respectthan she usually gaveto her servants. Butno single ministerruled under Elizabetlias Wolsey had ruled inthe time of her her own hands sheheld the strings ofstatecraft, and herwill was supreme; theTarliament, at leastearly in tlie reign,was eager to obey herslightest wisluand Masspeci
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . of j^rofound sagacity, like /oMsellOTs. *^^^ ^^illiim Cecil, afterward Lord Burgliley,and Sir Thomas Walsingham. Burghley was sedate, far-sighted, free from passion, unscrupulous, but wholly true to hisroyal mistress, whoalways treated hiniwith more respectthan she usually gaveto her servants. Butno single ministerruled under Elizabetlias Wolsey had ruled inthe time of her her own hands sheheld the strings ofstatecraft, and herwill was supreme; theTarliament, at leastearly in tlie reign,was eager to obey herslightest wisluand Masspecially favouralde toher Church dangers threatened Elizabeth. Tbe Pope would not recognise her as queen, and her next of kin, ^lary Stuart, tlie young queen of Scotland, and alsoElizabeths j!t-i ^ii •<< r ii • ti i dangers, ^^ xTancc, as the wife of rrancis J J, assumed the arms and titles of the sovereigns of Eng-land ; at the court of France the ushers cried before her Place for the Queen of Englaiul. Marys attitude seemed. Su: Cecil, Lord Hi UViO-loKS). THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND 303 X
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