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: The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth A history of the various negotiations for her marriage by Hume Martin A S Martin Andrew Sharp - Great Britain History Elizabeth 1558-1603; Queens Great Britain Biography; Elizabeth I Queen of England 1533-1603 Relations wi
THE COURTSHIPS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
A HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS NEGOTIATIONS FOR HER MARRIAGE BY MARTIN A. S. HUME, F. R. HIST. S. EDITOR OF THE CALENDAR OF SPANISH STATE PAPERS OF ELIZABETH
"AND THE IMPERIAL VOTARESS PASSED ON IN MAIDEN MEDITATION FANCY FREE"
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & Co. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN MDCCCXCVI
PREFACE
It has been my pleasant duty to consider carefully in chronological order a great mass of diplomatic documents of the time of Elizabeth, in which are reflected, almost from day to day, the continually shifting aspects of political affairs, and the varying attitudes of the Queen and her ministers in dealing therewith. I have been struck with the failure of most historians of the time, who have painted their pictures with a large brush, to explain or adequately account for what is so often looked upon as the perverse fickleness of perhaps the greatest sovereign that ever occupied the English throne; and I have come to the conclusion that the best way in which a just appreciation can be formed of the fixity of purpose and consummate statecraft which underlay her apparent levity, is to follow in close detail the varying circumstances and combinations which prompted the bewildering mutability of her policy.
To do this through the whole of the events of a long and important reign would be beyond the powers of an ordinary student, and the attempt would probably end in confusion. I have therefore considered it best to limit myself in this book to one set of negotiations, those which relate to the Queen's proposed marriage, running through many years of her reign: and I trust that, however imperfectly my task may have been effected, the facts set forth may enable the reader to perceive more clearly than hitherto, that capricious, even frivolous, as the Queen's methods appear to be, her main object was rarely neglected or lost sight of during the long continuance of these negotiations.
That a strong modern England was rendered possible mainly by the boldness, astuteness, and activity of Elizabeth at the critical turning-point of European history is generally admitted; but how masterly her policy was, and how entirely personal to herself, is even yet perhaps not fully understood. I have therefore endeavoured in this book to follow closely from end to end one strand only of the complicated texture, in the hope that I may succeed by this means in exhibiting the general process by which England, under the guidance of the great Tudor Queen, was able to emerge regenerated and triumphant from the struggle which was to settle the fate of the world for centuries to come.
MARTIN A. S. HUME.
ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER 64
HENRY DE VALOIS, DUKE OF ANJOU 128
FRAN?OIS DE VALOIS DUKE OF ALEN?ON 272
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