| Show DAWS ADS LETTER by JAMES IL II WALUS WALLIS the execution ot of mary queen loueen of scots made philip alna ot spain fuli otts lie ile threatened to do greater things than ever had been doie yet to set up the catholic religion lell glon and punish protestant england elizabeth hearing that ho was wag making great warlike p separations preparations epa rations for this purpose li order to be beforehand sent out adalia Adint ial drake a falcus navigator who had sailed about tile the world to the port part of 0 cadiz spain he burned a hundred vessels tull full of stores this great los loss 3 obliged the king ot of spain to put off his invasion tor for a year but it was none the less fo for that amounting to ships 8 sailors soldiers 2000 slaves and between two and thousand great guns england was not idle in making ready to resist this great force all tlc alc me ane i between sixteen years old ind and sixty were trained and dif hilled fled the national fleet of ships in number only 34 at first was enlarged by public ia s ind by private ships hills title 1 out by ly noblemen if ever thle the national spirit was aroused in III england it was low some of the queens advises ad were tor for seizing the principal rin cipAl eng Enri sll i catholics and ratting ing them to death but the qubell who to her honor used to 0 say that she would never believe any aay ill ot of her subjects a parent would not no bellee believe of it her own child childen en rejected the adofice adv fice and only confined a few a t these who were the most suspected the great body of catholics deserved dese ived this a tor for hey behaved most loyalty loyally nobly and nd bravely so 0 o with all england tiling up like ike one stong angry man and with both sides of the ra alier I 1 er thames fortified and with the soldiers bader arms and with the sailors in their ships the countey waited for the comin coming of the proud aroud spanish fleet which which was called ailed the invincible armada queen ideen elizabeth herself riding in armor on a whito borse made a 2 brave arave speech to the troops at G i which was revolved with such enthusiasm as is seldom then camo came the ish arnida armada nto into tile t ne english channel salling sailing along in the form of a halt half moon of if such great size that it was seven even miles wide but the eig lish ish we e upon it and woe then hen to all the he spanish ships tint that dropped cropped a little bit out of tho the half nicon for the english destroyed them instantly one sumner summer night the bold admiral drake seit se it eight blazing tire fire ship rig right ht in into a the midst of I 1 it t in n t te elble ble consternation the spaniards tried to get out to sea and so became dispersed tie english pursued hem at a areat reat ad intake A storm came on and drove the spaniards aprong locks and shoals and tile the swift end of the invincible fleet was that it dinst thirty great ships and nd ten thousand men and defeated and clr disgraced aced sailed home aga so ended d this ais 51 gaoat oat aftem attempt pt to invade I 1 ant and conquer england and I 1 restore a catholic government en alanl was forever freed from I 1 r popish nish at this time the favorite of he queen was tho the earl of p essex a sp uplifted lifted and handsome handson le young man ile ho was also a fa favorite with the people and possessed S ot of marys admirable qualities it was much debated at court whether there should be peace or war naith kith spain esses was very urgent tor for war one day while this question was ta ii dispute he hastily took offense and turned his back upon the queen As a gentle reminder of such impropriety 1 the queen gave him a tre idous box on the car and told him to go to the devil lie went home instead and did n not ot appear at court tor for months wh when en ha aud a id tile the queen were reconciled though never thoroughly floii this time the fate of the earl ot at essex and that of the quen seemed to be blended toe ether ile he was sent over to ii ireland eland as lord lieutenant to the great joy ot of his en onen exiles aies but soon ae returned turned the queaa being taken by surprise when he appeared before her save gave him her hand to kiss ind nd ho he was overjoyed but in the defuse of the same day acue oder ed him to confine himself to his room and two or three days afier er wards had him taken into c custody ill s with the same soft of cap a ice she beat hin hi n broth froni from her own tible table OA 01 his falling ill from anxiety and cried about him the angry in ry earl turned against the queen whom he called a vain old woman who had grown as crooked in bemi ler id as she had in her figure these centary nen tary expressions the ladies of the court immediately snapped up ind and carried to the queen tiia this lie he followed up with an attempt to kidnap the queen which dismally tailed failed aid aad a id he was promptly declared declai ed a traitor ile he was brought to trial ind and found guilty six days later he was executed on tower HUI at thirty foul years of age it is probable that the death of her and gallant favorite in lie cie prime of his gcoy qualities was never oft off her mind afterwards she lived for ten tell years after this until maich 10 1603 IIa been ill of a very bad cold she tell fell into a stupor and was supposed to be dead sho she recovered her consciousness how 1 ever eve and then nothing would induce lier her to go to bed for she said she knew that it if she died she should never get up asari there she lay for or ten days on oil cushions on the floor without any food until the cie lord admiral got her into bed at last partly by persuasion and partly by main force bhea they asked who succeed her she replied that her seat had been the seat of kings and that she would have as her no rascals lascala son but a kings upon thas tho the lords lord present stared at one another and took the liberty of asking whom she met mea it at to which she replied whom should I 1 mean but our cousin of scotland this was on the 2 3 id day of 0 march they asked ier once again that day after she was speechless whether she w was is still in the same same irvind she atril iti aled and raised herself up in bed and jok jaried led her hinds hands over her head in the form of a crown as aa tile the only reply she could make at I 1 three next tn tm orning she very quietly died in the forty fifth year of hei bei reign and in her seventy third year her reign had been a glorious lor lous one and Is made for or ever memorable by tha th distinguished men who flourished in it apart from the great voyagers statesmen and sch olais whom it produced t the le names of bacon aser and Shakespea ic will always be ic with pride and venera aton by the civilized civilize world will always impart thong though and us geat reason 1 perhaps amith of their hi lustre hitre tre tn corn name nama of elizabeth Ellz ibeth herself tnt it be 8 i great lelan lor jar discovery dis descove coVely ay iy was ara commerce and for Eig llah ani for prise and spirit in eneval it enter a ineat cheat reign for the P Pio t tp a A religion and lor for to te reri lat lt t which made england tree free 1 was very popular tah 9 and 1 i her proe sg or of journeys I 1 was ery where I 1 by ane wild 07 joy she was not half half as go she has bee been n nade made out arar halt half so bad as she had bad been w out she had her tine fine qua kakta but she sae was coarse caprI clou ii k ind and had all the tail of an excessively vain you houi v man long after she wag a an W 0 one thus conci concludes udes our sketch hes three queens bloody mary u ilar 9 queen of scota and queen EN eliat 7 beth j |
