-18;
confers an Irish captaincy on R., 19;
R. first favourite with, 19-25;
gifts to R., 24, 25;
grants charter to R. for discovery of N.-W. passage, 28;
Virginia named in honour of, _ib._;
leases Durham House to R., 31;
feelings towards Leicester, 32;
keeps R. from politics, 35;
R. supplanted by Essex, 35;
appropriates pirated fine raiment, 42;
R. restored to favour by, 43, 49;
praised in _Cynthia_, 45;
Spenser introduced to, 48;
commands publication of _Colin Clout_, 49;
happy retort of R. to, 53;
instals a pliable Bishop of Salisbury and receives fine from R., 53;
supports R. in Spanish plate-ship venture, 54, 59;
buys the 'Ark Raleigh,' 54;
vanity and resentment, 55;
recalls R. from Frobisher's fleet, 56;
discovers R.'s Throckmorton intrigue, _ib._;
confines R. in Tower, 57;
R.'s letter of devotion to, _ib._;
acknowledges R.'s marriage, 63;
works of travel published in her reign, 85;
irresolution to attack Spain after Armada, 88;
R. seeks reconciliation with, 100;
claims Cadiz prize-money, 101;
R.'s position with, 101, 103, 111, 115;
reconfers captaincy of the Guard on R., 103;
her custom to retire early to rest, 111;
festivities on her sixty-fifth birthday, 113;
sends R. to Ostend, 115;
confers Governorship of Jersey and Manor of St. Germain on R., 116;
Essex accuses R., Cecil, and Cobham to, 118;
refuses communication with Essex, _ib._;
said to have shown skull of Essex, _ib._;
R. sends her a supposed diamond, 128;
interviews R. on Irish policy, _ib._;
R. advises as to MacDermod, _ib._;
her death, 129;
reference to, 186

Elizabethan poets engaged in Ireland, 10

El Nuevo Dorado, or Guiana, 66

Elphinstone, Sir James, eager for R.'s estate, 143

Elyot, Sir John, his _Monarchy of Man_, 217;
describes R.'s end, _ib._

_England, Breviary of the History of_, 182;
Archbishop Sancroft and MS. of, _ib._;
Samuel Daniel's share in, 183;
attributed to R., _ib._

Epuremi tribe in Guiana, 78

Erskine, Sir Thomas, supplants R. in the Guard, 133;
his position with King James, 133

_Essays_, Bacon issues his, 85

Essex, Earl of, competes with R. for royal favour, 35;
demands R.'s sacrifice, 35, 36;
Court attacks on R., 40;
challenges R., _ib._;
drives R. from Court, 42;
more friendly with R., 50;
perceives value of the Puritans, _ib._;
his Protestantism, _ib._;
to consider attack on Cadi