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       INTRODUCTION

       THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 1547-1603

       EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD VI. (1547-1551) .

       COMMISSION FOR CONTINUANCE OF SCHOOLS, PREACHERS, ETC. , AND PENSIONS

       REPORT OF THE SCHOOLS COMMISSIONERS FOR STRATFORD-ON-AVON (about 1550) .

       COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE. SCHOOLS CONTINUANCE WARRANT 6 (about 1550) .

       LADY JANE GREY (1550) .

       A PROCLAMATION, THAT ALL COURTESY SHOULD BE USED TO KING PHILIP AND HIS TRAIN, COMING INTO ENGLAND TO MARRY THE QUEEN (1554) .

       A SPEECH OF QUEEN MARY’S TO HER COUNCIL, UPON HER RESOLUTION OF RESTORING CHURCH LANDS. Anno. Reg. March 4. (1555-56.)

       A PROCLAMATION SETT FORTHE BY THOMAS STAFFORDE, FROM SCARBOROW CASTLE: EXCITING THE ENGLISH TO DELIVER THEMSELVES FROM THE SPANYARDS. (End of April, 1557.)

       THE BEHAVIOUR OF DR. RIDLEY AND MASTER LATIMER AT THE TIME OF THEIR DEATH, WHICH WAS THE 16TH OF OCTOBER, 1555.

       INTERROGATORIES TO CHURCHWARDENS (1558) .

       PRESBYTERIAN DEMANDS (1572) .

       THE ANGLICAN POSITION (1572) .

       THE ELIZABETHAN POOR LAW (1572) .

       THE CONDITION OF IRELAND (1571-2) .

       THE RISING IN THE NORTH (1569) .

       BULL DEPOSING QUEEN ELIZABETH (1569-1570) .

       AN ACT AGAINST THE BRINGING IN AND PUTTING IN EXECUTION OF BULLS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS FROM THE SEE OF ROME (1571) .

       AN ACT AGAINST JESUITS, SEMINARY PRIESTS, AND SUCH OTHER LIKE DISOBEDIENT PERSONS (1584) .

       DEATH OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (1586) .

       THE CATHOLICS’ DILEMMA BETWEEN LOYALTY TO COUNTRY AND LOYALTY TO CHURCH (1587) .

       THE ARMADA (1588) .

       THE NAVY OF 1588.

       THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE (1591) .

       THE EARL OF ESSEX: HIS APOLOGY TO THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY’S COUNCIL, AFTER HE HAD BEEN PRISONER IN THE LORD KEEPER’S HOUSE (1600) .

       QUEEN ELIZABETH’S SPEECH TO HER LAST PARLIAMENT, IN ANSWER TO THE COMMONS’ THANKS TO HER FOR SUPPRESSING THE “ENGROSSING” OR MONOPOLIES, November 30, 1601.

       QUEEN ELIZABETH’S DEATH AND NOMINATION OF KING JAMES VI. OF SCOTLAND AS HER SUCCESSOR (1603) .

       APPENDIX

       THE ENTERTAINMENT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH (1575) .

       LONDON IN THE PLAGUE (about 1593) .

       A PESSIMIST ON THE AGE.

       PURITANISM ON DRESS.

       PURITANISM ON SPORT.

       PURITANISM AND THE STAGE: THE ATTITUDE OF THE CITY OF LONDON TOWARDS THE THEATRES.

       EUPHUISM, A FASHION OF 1580.

       AN ELIZABETHAN MAN OF LETTERS: THOMAS NASHE DEFENDS ROBERT GREENE’S MEMORY AGAINST GABRIEL HARVEY.

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