QUEENS 0F ENGLAND,

From The Norman Conquest.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM

OFFICIAL RECORDS & OTHER AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS,

PRIVATE AS WELL AS PUBLIC.

BY

AGNES STRICKLAND.

"The treasures of antiquity laid up

in old historic rolls, I opened."

BEAUMONT.

Fourth Edition.

WITH ALL THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS.

EMBELLISHED WITH

PORTRAITS OF EVERY QUEEN.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

ELIZABETH,

SECOND QUEEN-REGNANT OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

BY HIS SUCCESSORS, HURST AND BLACKETT,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1854.