. Historical portraits ... ll this time Leicester professed to be supporting the successivepretensions of the two French Valois princes to Elizabeths 1585 Elizabeths fondness induced her to entrust him with theEnglish army sent to succour the Protestant Netherlands in theirstruggle with Spain. The Earl displayed great extravagance andgreat incompetence; he allowed the States-General to name himto the Governorship of the Provinces, and thereby incurred muchscolding from his mistress, and wasted much time, which wouldhave been better employed in fighting the Spaniards, of whichbusiness L
. Historical portraits ... ll this time Leicester professed to be supporting the successivepretensions of the two French Valois princes to Elizabeths 1585 Elizabeths fondness induced her to entrust him with theEnglish army sent to succour the Protestant Netherlands in theirstruggle with Spain. The Earl displayed great extravagance andgreat incompetence; he allowed the States-General to name himto the Governorship of the Provinces, and thereby incurred muchscolding from his mistress, and wasted much time, which wouldhave been better employed in fighting the Spaniards, of whichbusiness Leicester did very little. He was recalled in November 158 ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER 1587, but his failure did not prevent the Queen from entrustinghim with the command of her troops at Tilbury in August 1588,when the diefeat of the Spanish Armada was yet hardly in the following month Leicester died suddenly. Perhapsthe best thing that can be said for him is that he was a considerablepatron of SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTONFrom the portrait in the possession of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham Face p. 15S 159 SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON (1540-159^) Lord Chancellor, son of William Hatton and Alice Saunders, wasborn of an ancient family at Holmby or Holdenb}, Northampton-shire, was educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and became a studentat the Temple. In 1564 he commenced courtier, and, favouredby a handsome person and a quick wit, rose rapidly in the gracesof Elizabeth:— His bushy beard and shoe-strings green, His high-crowned hat and satin doubletMoved the stout heart of Englands Queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it. He appears to have been a faithful and on occasion an out-spoken servant to the tyrannical mistress, who showered gifts ofland and plate on him, and quarrelled with him less often thanwith any other of her statesmen-courtiers. Some indignation wasexpressed when, in 1587, he was preferred to be Lord Chancellor,but it was soon
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