Two English queens and Philip

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Accession of Elizabeth—The beginning of the long duel—Feria
  urges Philip to use force—Philip’s many difficulties—He offers
  his hand to Elizabeth—The Peace of Cateau Cambresis—The
  Franco-Spanish Alliance—Fears of a Catholic League—Philip marries
  a French Princess—English Catholics appeal to Philip—Mary
  Stuart claims the Crown of England—War with Scotland—Philip’s
  efforts to effect a reconciliation—Bishop Quadra—His relations
  with Leicester—Intrigue for a Catholic reaction in England—Mary
  Stuart approaches Philip—Disgrace and death of Quadra—A war
  of tariffs—Guzman de Silva, ambassador—The interviews of
  Bayonne—Failure of the Catholic League

                                CHAPTER VI

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  Mary Stuart marries Darnley—Their intrigues with Philip through
  Guzman—Plan to promote revolution in England in favour of
  Mary—Expulsion of the English ambassador from Spain—Recall of
  Guzman—Don Gerau de Spes ambassador—His character—Commences
  conspiring at once—His turbulent behaviour—Seizure of Philip’s
  treasure in England—Indignation of de Spes—His imprudent and
  disastrous action—Alba stops trade—Strained relations—Proposed
  declaration of war against England—The views of Philip and
  Alba—The Norfolk plot—The Northern rebellion

                               CHAPTER VII

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  Desperation of Alba—Fresh Catholic conspiracies—De Spes’s
  complicity—Alba and the Ridolfi plot—Discovery—The revenge
  of John Hawkins—De Spes outwitted—His expulsion from
  England—Guaras appointed Spanish Agent—Reopening of trade—Guaras’
  intrigues with Mary Stuart and Don Juan of Austria—The plot
  discovered—Imprisonment of Guaras—Fall of Don Juan—Bernardino de
  Mendoza appointed ambassador in England

                               CHAPTER VIII

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  Mendoza and Elizabeth—His haughty behaviour—The French in
  Flanders—Elizabeth’s approaches to Philip—The Spanish designs
  on Portugal—Renewed plots of Mary Stuart—Appeals to Philip to
  aid her in England—Philip’s attitude towards Guise—Co-operation
  with him in Britain—The Jesuit mission—Mendoza and the Catholic
  plot in Scotland—Elizabeth aids the Portuguese Pretender—Anger
  of Mendoza—His altercation with Elizabeth—Progress of the
  plots—Collapse of Lennox—The interference of Guise in the
  plans—The jealousy between English Catholic exiles and the
  Scots—Development of the Anglo-Spanish plans and intended
  exclusion of Guise—Arrest of Francis Throckmorton—Discovery of
  the plot—Expulsion of Mendoza—Philip faces the inevitable and
  slowly prepares for a war of invasion

                                CHAPTER IX

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