Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Makers of History Queen Elizabeth BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1901 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT. [Illustration: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.] PREFACE. The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information which this country affords; and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in all historical accounts, more or less of imperfection and error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it. CONTENTS. Chapter Page I. ELIZABETH'S MOTHER 13 II. THE CHILDHOOD OF A PRINCESS 39 III. LADY JANE GREY 57 IV. THE SPANISH MATCH 81 V. ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER 100 VI. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE 120 VII. THE WAR IN SCOTLAND 141 VIII. ELIZABETH'S LOVERS 161 IX. PERSONAL CHARACTER 187 X. THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA 208 XI. THE EARL OF ESSEX 232 XII. THE CONCLUSION 260 ENGRAVINGS. Page PORTRAIT OF DRAKE _Frontispiece._ PORTRAIT OF HENRY VIII 16 PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN 20 GROUP OF CHRISTENING GIFTS 25 TOWER OF LONDON 31 PORTRAIT OF EDWARD VI. 44