. Historical portraits ... d to England, he became a zealousmember of the House of Commons, and was able through his foreigncorrespondents to keep Cecil informed of many important events onthe Continent. He was employed upon several diplomatic missionsby Elizabeth; in particular he negotiated the Treaty of Blois withFrance in 1572, and was in Paris as ambassador at the date of themassacre of St. Bartholomew. But none of his missions werecrowned with special success, because his outspoken Protestant zealled him to undervalue the results obtained by the Queens policy ofvacillation. He never ceas
. Historical portraits ... d to England, he became a zealousmember of the House of Commons, and was able through his foreigncorrespondents to keep Cecil informed of many important events onthe Continent. He was employed upon several diplomatic missionsby Elizabeth; in particular he negotiated the Treaty of Blois withFrance in 1572, and was in Paris as ambassador at the date of themassacre of St. Bartholomew. But none of his missions werecrowned with special success, because his outspoken Protestant zealled him to undervalue the results obtained by the Queens policy ofvacillation. He never ceased to remonstrate with her on this sub-ject, and one is surprised when one reads the remonstrances whichshe tolerated from his pen. In 1573 he became Secretary of Statein succession to Cecil, now Lord Burghley, and it is no exaggera-tion to say that on his skill in unravelling plots, and on thatalone, the life of the Queen, and with that life the future of anindependent Protestant England, really depended. In particular it. uo w c2; ou COW > c H c;c c r: O O ■r, c
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