The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10

and minion-and twenty muskets, be-
sides calivers and all other necessary
weapons, as swords, targets, pixies, and
the like" were hired, and the crews
paid. for Ave months. at total cost Of
f1,S96.
The year was not exceptionally mark
ed by religious troubles, or by executions
of Jesuits and Seminarists; but the let
tiers of the Bishop OF Durham to Burgh-
ley. and of the Bishop OF Worcester to
Sir r. Cecil show that 1t was necessary
for the Government to be at least well
informed on the subject of recusancy
The Bishop Of Durham names several
important recusants. and laments the
failure Of the plot laid by him to catch
Jesuit-the matter being "unsecretly
carried''-and has the gravest fears OF
Spanish invasion. The Bishop of Wor-
cester sends a detailed list Of the
names and qualities OF the weather. sort
of recusants in Worcester Diocese" and
list Of inharmonious households in
which "the gentlewomen refuse the
church, though their husbands do not"
In all, he says, there are -four score and
ten households where the man or wife
or both are recusants, besides children
and servats." He proposes ITO serve
God and her majesty" In this case, by
various alternative processes Of persua-
sion and coercion.
A considerable number of letters re-
late to Sir Henry Upton's special mis-
sion to the French court, mission that
was distasteful to him from the first,
and ended In his death from a malig-
nant fever. One Of his servants reports
that In this fatal illness purple spots
appeared about his heart, and that the
French physicians gave him a confec-
ton OF musk, amber, pearl, gold, and
uniforms horn. with pigeons applied to
his side, and all other means that art
could devise, sufficient to expel the
strongest poison and he be not bewitched
withal."
More important are the various scat
tered references and incidents that ex-
hibit the Queens character in her old
age. She, at least. is not shadowy,
but very human, parsonage Some
later installment of these papers will
perhaps contain an account of her vio-
lent scene with Essex. whose ears she
boxed; the present volume illustrates
her hasty temper, and, 1t must be said,
her increased love of money.
Sir John Hawkins on his deathbed
sent her his loyal service and good
meaning even to his last breathing"
and. like an old courtier of the Queens,
bequeathed to her $4,000, most improv-
identity and superfiuously, and the
money seems to have been exacted from
his widow, Notwithstanding her profess
tation that, rather than incur the
Queens displeasure, she would sell all
that she possessed and leave herself a
beggar.
Money the Quenn would take, and
compliments, but the privilege Of free
speech was reserved to herself, and not
even bishop might hint from the pull
pit that she was growing old. The
Bishop Of st. Davids, DR.. Anthony Rudd,
was imprisoned for charging on this un-
welcome topic in sermon preached at
Richmond. His words, as quoted, are
pious and consoling, but 1t was doubt
less indiscreet to speak Of the "clymac-
terycall year Of mine age" and Of a ~
daily decay Of the body. In his petition
for release, he complains that that
which I spoke Of old age in general ~
made personal" and that divers things
were mistaken"