Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

by Lucy Aikin

[143] Carte.

[144] Printed in Nichols's Progresses.

[145] See the evidence for this extraordinary story fully stated in Birch's Negotiations. On the whole, it appears sufficient to warrant our belief; yet it should be remarked that the accounts which have come down to us differ from each other in some important points, and are traceable to no original witness of the interview between the queen and the countess.

[146] Bohun's Character of Queen Elizabeth.

[147] Bohun's Character of Queen Elizabeth.

[148] Bohun's Character of Queen Elizabeth.

[149] Description of England prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles.

[150] Views of most of the buildings here mentioned may be found in Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vols. i. ii. and iv.

[151] Lysons's Environs of London, vol. iv.