yed in that behalf being guarded by certain harquebusiers."

[813] Queen Elizabeth was born September 7, 1533; Henry was born in
September, 1551 (the day is variously given as the 18th, 19th, and 21st),
and was just nineteen.

[814] Letter of Catharine to La Mothe Fenelon, Oct. 20, 1570,
Correspondance diplomatique, vii. 143-146.

[815] Despatch of La Mothe Fenelon, Dec. 29, 1570. Ibid., vol. iii. 418,
419.

[816] And with a freedom which might be mistaken for Arcadian simplicity,
did we not know that innocence was no characteristic of either court in
that age. "J'en cognoissoys ung," he told her, "qui estoit nay a tant de
sortes de vertu, qu'il ne failloit doubter qu'elle n'en fut fort honnoree
et singulierement bien aymee, et dont j'espererois qu'au bout de neuf mois
apres, elle se trouveroit mere d'ung beau filz," etc. La Mothe Fenelon,
iii. 439, 454, 455.

[817] Despatch to Cecil, Jan. 28, 1571, Digges, 26.

[818] Ibid., 27.

[819] Digges, 27.

[820] Catharine to La Mothe Fenelon, Feb. 2, 1571, Corresp. diplom., vii.
179; and Walsingham to Cecil, Feb. 18, 1571, Digges, 43.

[821] Catharine, _ubi supra_.

[822] La Mothe Fenelon, March 6, 1571, ibid., iv. 11, 12. The ambassador
exhibits his own incredulity respecting the stories circulated to the
queen's disadvantage.

[823] To La Mothe Fenelon, Feb. 18, 1571, ibid., vii. 183.

[824] To the same, March 2, 1571, ibid., vii. 190.

[825] Walsingham to Burleigh, May 25, 1571, Digges, 101.

[826] Digges, 96.

[827] Ibid., 55.

[828] "So it doth appear, if he would omit that demand, and put it in
silence, yet will her Majestie straitly capitulate with him, that he shall
in no way demand it hereafter at her hands. Which scruple, I believe, will
utterly break off the matter; wherefore I am in small hope that any
marriage will grow this way." Leicester to Walsingham, July 7, 1571,
Digges, 116.

[829] Digges, 119, 120.

[830] A league with France, Walsingham maintained, would be an advancement
of the Gospel there and everywhere, and "though it yieldeth not so much
_temporal_ profit, yet in respect of the _spiritual fruit_ that thereby
may insue, I think it worth the imbracing." Ibid., p. 121.

[831] Digges, 120.

[832] Anjou's humor, she told him, "me faict bien grande peyne." Letter of
July 25, 1571, Corresp. diplom., vii. 234.

[833] Ibid., _ubi supra_. This expression deserves to be noticed
particularly, inasmuch as it effectually disposes of the