[39] Hosack, vol. ii. p. 426.
[40] Chantelauze, pp. 240, 241.
[41] See [Appendix], p. [271].
[42] Chantelauze, p. 539.
[43] Walsingham, writing upon the same subject to Leicester, says: "We have received a secret counter-order, and have found ourselves constrained to adjourn our assembly upon some pretext. This accused creature seems to have been chosen by God for the punishment of our sins, as it appears the Queen is powerless to act against her as her safety demands."—See Hosack, vol. ii. p. 430; also Letter Books of Sir Amyas Paulet, p. 296.
[44] Chantelauze, pp. 539, 540.
[45] The Queen's words in the original French are too expressive to be omitted: "Sa Majesté dict que c'estoit manteau blanc, ou blanc manteau—mais qu'enfin estoit tout ung, quelque coulleur qu'ils luy en baillassent."—Chantelauze, pp. 540-545.
[46] Letter Books of Sir Amyas Paulet, pp. 300, 301.
[47] "Parlt. has pressed E. to proceed to the execution, adding thereto that the forbearing thereof was, and would be daily, a certain and undoubted danger not only to her own life but to themselves, their posterity and the public state of this realm, as well for the cause of the Gospel and the true religion of Christ, as for the peace of the whole realm. Greenwich, 1 Feb., 29 Eliz."—Yelverton MSS., f. 534.
[48] Hosack, pp. 430-433.