Title: Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth.
Authors: Read, Conyers, 1881-1959.
Publisher: Knopf,
Year: 1960
Subjects: Burghley, William Cecil,; Elizabeth
Abstract: Concluding volume of the definitive biography of Lord Burghley, dealing with him as Peer and Lord High Treasurer. Preceded by "Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth.
Contents: The captive queen of Scots, 1570 -- Cecil becomes Lord Burghley, 1571 -- The Ridolfi plot, 1571-72 -- French marriage projects, 1571-72 -- French alliance and Dutch revolt, 1572 -- St. Bartholomew's and its consequences, 1572 -- Scotland, 1572-73 -- Anglican and puritan, 1572-75 -- Theobalds and the Oxford marriage -- Hunguenots and sea beggars, 1573-76 -- The low countries, 1576-78 -- The alencon courtship, 1579-81 -- The Jesuit menace, 1570-83 -- Alencon and the low countries, 1581-84 -- Scotland, 1581-85 -- Puritans in parliament, 1584 -- Leicester in the low countries, 1585-87 -- The end of Mary Stuart, 1586-87 -- Henry of Navarre and the French sucession -- Peace overtures, 1587-88 -- The coming of the armada, 1588 -- The year after the armada, 1589 -- The rise of essex, 1590-93 -- The attack on puritanism, Burghley's swan song, 1593-95 -- 1596 -- Last days, 1597-98.