ROBERT DEVEREUX, SECOND EARL OF ESSEX.
(After a contemporary portrait in the collection
of the Earl of Verulam.
)

THE YEAR AFTER
THE ARMADA

AND OTHER HISTORICAL STUDIES
BY MARTIN A. S. HUME, F.R.HIST.S.
EDITOR OF THE CALENDAR OF SPANISH STATE
PAPERS OF ELIZABETH (PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE)
AUTHOR OF "THE COURTSHIPS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH," ETC.

Dieu et mon droit

SECOND EDITION

"'There is no book so bad,' said the bachelor, 'but that
something good may be found in it.' 'There is no doubt of that,'
replied Don Quixote."—Don Quixote, pt. ii.