Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-19
MYSTERIES OF ROYALTY.
Was Queen Elizabeth a Mother?


Queen Elizabeth of England was no
doubt the queen OF mystery About
no woman ruler have there been ask.
ed and discussed so many odd and
pointed questions. Was she man?
Was she really the daughter of Henry
VIII? Was she a murderess? Was
she dark or fair? Was she mother?
All of these questions have been dis.
cussed to the extent of volumes and
such discussion is still going on.
1t has been affirmed, and with some
evidence of authencity, that child
was born to the queen by the Earl OF
Essex at Kenilworth Castle. Regard
ing this statement, a writer in Notes
and Queries" of March s, 1851, says:
ut is tradition in a family with
which | am connected that Queen
Elizabeth had a son, who was sent
over to Ireland and placed under the
care of the Earl of Ormonde. The
earl, ii will be remembered was dis
family related TO the queen, her great
great.grandmother being the daughter
of Thomas. the eighth earl. Papers
are said to exist in the family which
prove the above statement
Another story has it that the child
was that of Robert Dudley Earl of
Leicester. 1t is said that documents
are kept in the state paper office by
the British government which conrin
evidence of a most conclusive char
acter They are kept private and are
not permitted to be used by historical
inquirers. And still another is to the
effect that a daughter was born to
Elizabeth.
on October @, 1872, Sir Edward
Dyer wrote to Sir Christopher Halter
a letter which has been more or less
kept in great seclusion, but which
historian comments upon as follows
at is not lightly, nor upon slight
grounds, that the character Of any
woman should be suspected, much less
when that woman was one of the most
powerful monarchs that ever swayed
the English sceptre. Notwithstanding
all the explanations of historians, and
the unauthenticated stories so COM
monty promulgated against Elizabeth,
the writer's opinion was entirely
against the justice of the accusations,
but the letter under consideration has
produced a conviction of a different
nature which would confirm her i'm
morality, which this letter appears
to establish beyond a doubt.
This important conclusion, ii just.
affords key to many parts of Eliza
beths conduct which have hitherto
been irreconciliable with the magnan-
unity which she sometimes displays"
An entry in a manuscript at free
school Of Shrewsbury tells of a GER
tain son, it is said, Of the Earl of Lei
cester and Queen Elizabeth. This
manuscript once belonged to Roman
Catholic vicar of Shrewsbury who, in
1855, was appointed to the vicarate
Of Queen Mary. There is a tradition
that such a parsonage as this mys-
FERROUS son was brought up secretly
at the free school of Shrewsbury, but
what became Of him is not known,
nor is il easy to account for this Gu
rious entry in the parish church book
OF Shrewsbury.
The Tourists Illustrated Handbook
of Ireland is responsible for the fol-
lowing statement: "One of the inter
esting features pointed out is the
grave of Thomas Butler, the putative
natural son of her maiden majesty.
The burial ground is in the parish
chapel of Garrick-on.Suir
John Burke's "Peerage' gives an
extract from the "Dictianaire de la
Noblesse," Paris, 1771, stating the ira
dition that Thomas Butler, the tenth
Earl of Ormonde K. G., and Queen
Elizabeth were the parents of Piers
Fitzthomas Butler. Sir Edward But
Ter knight, son of this Piers, created
Viscount Galmoye in 1916.
writer of the time SAWS that
Thomas. tenth Earl of Ormonde. was
high in his royal mistress favor,
which the decorations that were his
amply show But there is more: ale
was" says a chronicler "a very come
ly and graceful parsonage and of
black complexion which made the
Irish give him the sobriquet of
"Duffs," and gave occasion to the
queen to call him her black husband"