[44] Collins's "Historical Collections."
[45] Bohun's "Character of Queen Elizabeth."
[46] "Burleigh Papers," by Haynes, p. 212.
[47] See Camden's "Remains."
[48] "Burleigh Papers" by Haynes, p. 368.
[49] "Burleigh Papers" by Haynes.
[50] It was by no remissness on the part of the queen that this town was lost; the preservation of which was an object very near her heart, as appears from a letter of encouragement addressed by the privy-council to Warwick, which has the following postscript in her own handwriting.
"My dear Warwick; If your honor and my desire could accord with the loss of the needfullest finger I keep, God so help me in my utmost need as I would gladly lose that one joint for your safe abode with me; but since I cannot that I would, I will do that I may, and will rather drink in an ashen cup than you or yours should not be succoured both by sea and land, yea, and that with all speed possible, and let this my scribbling hand witness it to them all.
"Yours as my own,
"E.R."