Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-06-29
QUEEN ELIZABETH.


teeple, the streets were spread wi b
ables, aGd, as the twilight closed,
olazed as before with bonfires." Aud
he bells of Westminster, nging for
Elizabeth's succession, were probably
he last sounds heard by Mary s friend,
Reginald Pole. Ii he heard and identi-
led them, be must have recognized in
he sound the knell of his hopes and
Efforts. His death saved hum from i'm
orisonment or banishment, for he was
rs obnoxious to Elizabeth as he had
been dear to Mary Heath, Archbish-
Jp of York and Lord Chancellor, an
bounced Mary's death and Elizabeth's
ucces sion in Parliament, and was met
~ glad shJLts of ''God save Queen
: lZabethp' In the meantime Eliza
beth remained in retirement at Hat
ield, where she held her first Council.
t was then aud there she achieved the
naster-stroke of her future wise gov
rnment-she appointed William Cecil,
conspicuous for his sagacity aud
patriotism, her secretary. He had
ong leen her friend, and had already
within an hour of Mary's death, written
5lizabeth's proclamation, changed the
guard at the Tower, despatched enyoys
o the principal foreign courts. and
,hosen who was to preach the following
sunday at st. PauPs Cross, Cecil's
)rother-in-law, Sir Anthony Bacon,
mother upright man, was made Lord
Keeper. c, ell and Bacon were leaders
IF the Protestant party, and their
wives, the learned daughters of Sir
John CoEe, who had found places in
Nary's household because of their
'rien ship with Catherine Parr, and
;he tastes they had in common with
ler and her stepdaughters, were Iu
,trung sympathy with the Reformed
Jhurch. Elizabeth's own household
lai always been deeply tinged with
he so-called heresy IN which she was
cared, while her opinions were more
)r less an arbitrary tumble of intel
ec;ual prepossesslons and individual
, 0iases. She inclined more to the doc
rines of Luther than to those of Cal
7in, her inclInati being IN opposition
o the bent of the English Protestant
SIN of the time. She had n distinct
version to the views of John Knox,
md rooted dislike to the man. She
I'D not forgive his UoHstrOus Regi-
Hent Of Women, treatise directed
against the practice of sovereignty be-
ng placed in the hands of women.
She was regarded as the champion of
; liberty. Neither was 1t in her nature
% reckon "an opiuioh crime. Not
only were her political interests, and
he cause of the mother whose name
she never mentioned, bound up with
! Professionalism; she had not forgotten
what she herself had endured in the
conflict, and she could feel for and
With those who had borne a clearer
'estimony, and fought harder battle.
II is said of her that, unlike her sister
Mary, her safety ana strength lay IN
Ter remark Ible capacity for ascertain
ng and responding to the national
oulse; and at the succession England's
most passionate heart-throbs we're for
he hecatombs of mnrtys, the victims
# the dogmstism and bigotry OF Mary
and Pole. Elizabeth was not honest
enough to be either dogmatic or big
Oted. but she desired with all her heart
% be fair, and her common-sense told
ler that her strength was to be found
! n fairness. Her scholarly instincts
tended to temporizing middle course,
and she was confirmed In 1t by her
share of ''the free, proud spirit of the
, educated laity which declined to be
dictated to by priests whether of
Rome or Geneva.
( Elizabeth came to London on the 22d
I If the month, six days after Mhry's
/ leath. She was the centre of a mag
/ 1lficent company, and was met by vast
crowds journC yIng ont of the city to
welcome her. Hayward has an enthu-
,iastic description of her bearing on
The occasion:-'1f ever any person had
ihe gift or skill to win the hearts of the
people, it was their Queen, and if ever
she did express the same il was at that
resent, in coupling m illness with
majesty, as she did, and in stately
STOPPING to the meanest sort Her
aye was set upon one, her ear listened
% another, her judgment ran upon a
.hird, to a fourth she q ldressed her
speech Some she commanded, some
she pitied, some she thai ked, at others
I She pleasantly and wittily jested."
The exception to this universal gra-
ciousness was in the case of Bishop
Bonner. When Mary's bishops knelt
oy the wayside to offer the new Queen
heir homage, she received them gra-
ciously. But she declined to let Bon
ner kiss her hand. Those lips which
had passed many a brutal sentence
should never touch her fingers.
In fact, Elizabeth, ''the peoples
dol" was in her glory in this cheer
.ng, swaying multitude of great
and small. Yet there was not a more
lonely young woman in England than
she was that day. OF near relations
she had not one. Her nearest surviv-
.ng relation IN point of law was her
lifelong rival, Mary Queen of Scots,
ha hoH o1rao1r occunnn1 tho nf
England; while the cousins had never
met, and were never destined to meet.
Elizabeth's position was perilous in the
extreme. She was hedged about with
stumbling blocks and pitfalls. She had
many advisers, but few friends. Among
the advisers were such insidious coun-
,illors as the Count e,teria, Philip IL.
Of Spain's ambassador, the husband OF
Mistress Jane Dormer, one of the late
Queen Mary's ladies, a potent person
with the Catholics. Suitors, led by her
lead sisters widOwer, Philip, were
coming round her in swarms; and
oeither adviser nor suitor doubted that
Elizabeth would be governed by him,
md would become little better than a
puppet in his hands. Nobody, unless
t were Cecil, guessed that Elizabeth
aad not only a mind of her own, it was
20 great mind tGat it could carve out
in original course for a sovereign oi
England; it conld rule by the sheer
orce of splendid judgment, and a
burning zeal for the welfare of her
people.
! Hayward has a personal descrip.
ton of Ellzabe.h at this time
which, if allowance be made
for an excess of dazzled laudn
lion, is graphic and fairly lifelike:-
"She was a lady on whom Nature had
bestowed, and wellplaced, many of her
fnvors. OF stature 'mesne' (middliDg),
slender and straight, and amiably
composed of su III state in her carria, {
as every motion of her seemed to bear
majesty; her hair was inclined to pale
uaIlnur. hnr fnrahaad lnrna and fair