The Puritans And Queen Elizabeth: Or, the Church, Court, And Parliament of England, From the Reign of Edward Vi. to the Death of the Queen
The Puritans And Queen Elizabeth: Or, the Church, Court, And Parliament of England, From the Reign of Edward Vi. to the Death of the Queen
Samuel Hopkins
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(Wright, might not be suspected a hinderer IT. 103; Leicester to Burleigh, No- of that matter," — the queen's mar- vember 12, 1679.) riage, — "which all the world de- * Lodge, II. 100. VOL. u. 18 Digitized by Google 138 COURTSHIP AND BLOOD. [Ch. VL Stafford ; and thus, by adultery, saved her life.^ Im- mediately after the death of Essex,^ Leicester for- sook the Lady Douglass; more openly than hfore showed his love for the Lady Lettice; and soon* married her privately at Kenilworth* But Sir Fra...ncis Knollys, her father, knowing well the in- fidelity and arts of Leicester, and " fearing he might put a trick upon his daughter," was not satisfied with this clandestine marriage, and caused the ceremony to be performed again at Wanstead, in Essex, on the twenty-first day of September, 1578,^ in presence of himself, the Earl of Warwick, Leicester's brother, the Lord North, a Notary Public, and several other wit- nesses.® This transaction, though generally known at Court, was carefully concealed from the queen ; ^ for, " everybody being either within the obligation of his courtesies or the reach of his injuries," ® no one dared to make him his enemy by revealing a fact which would bring the Earl under the royal dis- pleasure.
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