. The courtships of Queen Elizabeth; a history of the various negotiations for her marriage. ^cj^m^-). CHAPTER X. Simiers departure with the draft agreement—The Queensuddenly cools towards the match—Her perplexity—Herefforts to temporise—Suggestions for an alliance withFrance—Simiers letters pleading Alencons cause—Alencons plans in Flanders—Signature of the Peace ofFleix—Queen Margarets intrigues against the Alenconmatch—Simiers disgrace—Catholic intrigues to gainAlenc;on—Alencpons new envoys to England—Clausse deMarchaumonts negotiations—His favour with the Queen— La belle jarretiere. On the
. The courtships of Queen Elizabeth; a history of the various negotiations for her marriage. ^cj^m^-). CHAPTER X. Simiers departure with the draft agreement—The Queensuddenly cools towards the match—Her perplexity—Herefforts to temporise—Suggestions for an alliance withFrance—Simiers letters pleading Alencons cause—Alencons plans in Flanders—Signature of the Peace ofFleix—Queen Margarets intrigues against the Alenconmatch—Simiers disgrace—Catholic intrigues to gainAlenc;on—Alencpons new envoys to England—Clausse deMarchaumonts negotiations—His favour with the Queen— La belle jarretiere. On the 9th of November, 1579, Simier came to theQueen and told her he could delay no longer goingback to his master ; and if a final decision was notat once adopted, he must return w^ithout it. He wascloseted with her for several hours, and the nextday she summoned the principal councillors to herchamber, and told them that she had made up hermind to marry, and they need say no more about it;their duty now was simply to devise the necessarymeans for carrying out her wishes. S
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