The world: historical and actual . of treason, and after long years of waiting broughtMary to trial for conspiring against Elizabethand the Crown. He;- complicity in the mur-der of Darnley had been proved before. Convictedof treason, Elizabeth signed her death-warrant, andshe was beheaded. Mary Queen of Scots has longbeen a favorite object of romantic interest, but in strict justiceshe hardlymerited hersubjects QueenElizabeth hadtwo favoritesat differenttimes, the Earlof Leicesterand the Earlof Essex, nei-ther of whomdeserves es-pecially theprominencegenerally giv-en
The world: historical and actual . of treason, and after long years of waiting broughtMary to trial for conspiring against Elizabethand the Crown. He;- complicity in the mur-der of Darnley had been proved before. Convictedof treason, Elizabeth signed her death-warrant, andshe was beheaded. Mary Queen of Scots has longbeen a favorite object of romantic interest, but in strict justiceshe hardlymerited hersubjects QueenElizabeth hadtwo favoritesat differenttimes, the Earlof Leicesterand the Earlof Essex, nei-ther of whomdeserves es-pecially theprominencegenerally giv-en him. InLord Burleighand Sir WalterRaleigh shehad realstates-men and fastfriends. SirFrancis Drake,who sailedaround theworld, received the order of knighthood from herroyal hand on boardhis own ship. Hermariners showedwonderful enterprisein the New Worldand India. Thecommon people might well be classedamong her friends,for during her reignthe condition of theagricultural and in-dustrial classes improved SIR WALTER KALEIHI- The Eliza- 45 5JT ¥ 36° THE TUDORS. bethan Age was the golden age of English litera-ture. During that period flourished William Shak-speare, who scaled all the peaks of thought audflooded the land and age with glory. But we re-serve all further discussion of literature for a sub-sequent chapter. There was much which was barbaric in Englandwhen the last of the Tudors died. She herself wascoarse and rude to a shocking degree. In profanityshe could vie with our army in Flanders. It isnone the less true that during the reign of the greathouse of Tudor the nation rose from the mere rudi-ments of greatness to rank with the foremost na-tions of Europe. Once rid of the idea of becominggreat by continental conquest and possessions, Brit-ain set about in right good earnest becoming indeedas in name, Great Britain. As early as the reign of Henry the Second, En-gland east covetous glance across the channel andsent an army into Ireland for its subjugation ;
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