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Title: Two English queens and Philip
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 Mary I, queen of England, 1516-1558. (from old catalog) Elizabeth I, queen of England, 1533-1603
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons (etc., etc.)
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n religion. . . . You will enforce this by all the good arguments and persuasions that you can employ, but if you can obtain no success in that way you will consider whether it will be well to press the Queen by saying that if this change is made, all idea of my marriage with her must be broken off. If she has any thoughts that way this may be effective. 2 Feria was in a quandary, for he knew how impossible it was, seeing Elizabeth's temper, to deal with her in this way. After two or three inconclusive interviews with the Queen, in which the question of the religious changes was pressed and the marriage broadly hinted at, Feria came to close quarters with her. She began with her usual professions of disinclination to marry at all, and was proceeding, as he feared, to decline her brother-in-laws proposal, when the ambassador ^ The English correspondence on this matter is of much interest. It is in Forbess State Papers. = Philip to Feria, 14th February, 1559.—Spanish Calendars of Elizabeth (Hume).
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QUEEN ELIZABETH FROM A PAINTING BY ZUCCHERO IN THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. ELIZABETH AND FERIA 193 stopped her and said he did not want an answer then. After some coquettish verbal fencing she promised him that she would give him a good answer if she gave him one at all. And then came the serious part of the business. Howard had written to her that Alba had said that they (the Spaniards) could not stand out for Calais any longer, but must make peace in any case. Elizabeth worked herself up into a rage about this,and began to storm about Mary of Scotland's claims upon England. She was not so poor that she could not get what money and soldiers she needed to hold her own, she said. Her people were all grumbling, she declared, at the waste of money upon the fleet for Philips service and other heavy expenditure the late Queen had incurred for him; and Feria had much a do to enforce his view that England owed a deep debt of gratitude to Philip, and the unreasonableness of expecting that he would keep a

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