LADY JANE GREY AT STUDY 63 PORTRAIT OF PHILIP OF SPAIN 84 ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER 112 ELIZABETH'S PROGRESS TO LONDON 135 THE FIRTH OF FORTH, WITH LEITH AND EDINBURGH IN THE DISTANCE 156 LEICESTER 169 THE BARGES ON THE RIVER 182 PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH 203 THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA 229 THE HOUSE OF THE EARL OF ESSEX 242 ELIZABETH IN HER LAST HOURS 270 HEAD OF JAMES I. 275 ELIZABETH'S TOMB 279 QUEEN ELIZABETH CHAPTER I. ELIZABETH'S MOTHER. 1533-1536 Greenwich.--The hospital.--Its inmates.--Greenwich Observatory.--Manner of taking time.--Henry the Eighth.--His character.--His six wives.--Anne Boleyn.--Catharine of Aragon.--Henry discards her.--Origin of the English Church.--Henry marries Anne Boleyn.--Birth of Elizabeth.--Ceremony of christening.--Baptism of Elizabeth.--Grand procession.--Train-bearers.--The church.--The silver font.--The presents.--Name of the infant princess.--Elizabeth made Princess of Wales.--Matrimonial schemes.--Jane Seymour.--The tournament.--The king's suspicions.--Queen Anne arrested.--She is sent to the Tower.--Sufferings of the queen.--Her mental distress.--Examination of Anne.--Her letter to the king.--Anne's fellow-prisoners.--They are executed.--Anne tried and condemned.--She protests her innocence.--Anne's execution.--Disposition of the body.--The king's brutality.--Elizabeth's forlorn condition.