Chap.

l6oz.The Earl ojTir-Oensubmits to■the Queen’sMercy.

The Queen,last Sickness.

Her Heath•

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C H A P. LXX.

Sundry Transactions of the Tear 1603, to the Death of Queen Elizabeth.

T OWARDS the Conclusion of st Spain,. & nd curbed the Insolence ofthe Year 1602. the Earl o i Tir- " the Hcmfe-tow.ns. The Terror ofoen was reduced to the Necessity Her Successes held France, tho’ go-of submitting to the Queen’s " verned by the great ■ Henry* so muchMercy and having surrendered him- st in AWO* that the Sea-Fo.rces of thatself to the Lord Deputy, was sent Pri- " Kingdom could not become formida-sonerto Enr land's and thereby an End " ble during Her Reign : And havingnut to the Troubles in Inland. “ the & rlJ ’ Ramahns and Flushing, the

F In the Beginning of the Year 1603. " Keys of Holland,, and Zealand in Her

5 Queen Elizabeth was sensible of the " Hands., She could, as it were, lockSss Attacks of a Distemper, which in ^ up thySea-Forces, of the Hutch, atthe End caused Her Death. In the " Her Pleasure. Thus She remainedBecn’nning of March it besan to encreafe .st ’till her Death, the absolute Mistressupon her daily, and she was seized with :st of the Seas, and, by Consequence thea Heaviness in all her Limbs, which Arbitrefs of the Affairs of Europe.11 mnib deprived her of Motion, and A To %mfy this, : ssie caused a Portcul-rendered her Speech difficult. She Us to be stamped on some of Herlinp-ered on till the four and twentieth, " Coin, intimating thereby, that it wasants then died in the seventieth Year of “ m He, Power to stut op the Sea.her Age of which ffie had reigned four Which She made sufficiently Appear,and forty Years, four Months, and eight when Le King of Denmark, and theDavs Thus ended the long and happy " Hanfe-tozvns, folhciting. a PassageReL of Queen Elizabeth, who, by " thro’sier Seas to transport Corn tothe many erelt Exploits atSea, perform- " were refused ».t . ? And when

ed uncle/her Influence, raised the Na- " the Hanfiattck Fleet,-. which hadtion’s Glory to the highest Pitch it ever " dared to attempt a Passage, WithoutBefore reach’d, and fully made good the " her Permission, was ssissitzd and con-Tirles which have justly been bestowed st fifeated. I shall only adds from Mr.on her; that ssie was the Restorer of Na- * Echœrd, Lat the utmost Bounds ofV al Glory, and the Mistress of the Ocean, f Europe,. Russia and Twtary couldNot to enlarge upon her Character and g" not Irmit the Extent of Her greatGlorv I shall finissi with the Author of " Kamo; But it spread'-farther, intothe Columna Rofrata : " By Her wise " the most remote Parts of Asia, Africa« Conduct and the Bravery of Her " anc * America, among the Turks, theSea-Commanders, ssie spread Her " Persians, Barbarians^ Indians. In" Fame into all Parts of the known " mostpof whose Dominions, to the« World She was sensible of the great enriching of Her Kingdom, SheXR u E Fo u N DA T!o n o f H e r Gr ea x- " fettled Commerce^ and-gamed largeNESS an d looked upon Manufac- " Privileges for th© - Encouragement of-« T u r rs as the RichestMine of the " H erMerchants, whom She cherissi-tc State and the Dominion of the Seas, " ed, as a most Necessary and Im-« as the 'Chief Jewel of Her Crown. " portant Part of Her Common-" This disposed Her to take all possi- ™ LTH ;' ■ - , T „ „ .

,< ble Measure both to promote Trade, To conclude this Book, 1 shall givec( and to deprive the Neighbouring the Reader a List of the Royal Navy,Nations of the Means of rivalling the as it was at the Death of this great'«- English at Sea. By Her ,yUpxjou.sy^.Qtzben. Y| h,\ VArms ssie broke the Naval’Force os ' ‘ '

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