[102] Parry had just been made Treasurer of the Household vice Sir Thomas Cheynes.
[103] Spanish Calendar, Elizabeth, vol. i.
[104] The treaty was ratified simultaneously by the French King at Notre Dame, the English special Ambassador being the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Howard of Effingham. The correspondence on, and descriptions of, the ceremonies in France, will be found printed in extenso in Forbes. An account of the festivities in England will be found in Nichols’ “Progresses of Queen Elizabeth,” and in the Calendar of Venetian State Papers.
[105] Spanish Calendar, Elizabeth, vol. i.
[106] Strype.
[107] A great impetus had been given to the building of warships on the accession of Elizabeth, and a programme of naval construction was presented, providing for the building of twenty-eight ships during the ensuing five years; an enormous increase when it is considered that the whole navy when Mary died consisted of only twenty-two sail. The first measure of Elizabeth was to turn a large number of the merchantmen, which had been built under subsidy, into warships. These were probably the ships referred to by Cardinal Lorraine. On the 3rd July, shortly afterwards, the Queen was present at the launch of a fine new warship at Woolwich, which she christened the Elizabeth.
[108] State Papers, Foreign; in extenso in Forbes.
[109] See also Throgmorton to Cecil, 1st July. Ibid.
[110] The Queen to Throgmorton, 17th and 19th July (State Papers, Foreign).
[111] Sadler to Cecil, 16th September 1559 (Sadler Papers, vol. i.).