liberty,
and the undisturbed enjoyment of all that he held under her, by the
sacrifice of no less than eighty thousand pounds due to him as admiral.
Such was the disinterested purity of that zeal for morals of which
Elizabeth judged it incumbent on her to make profession!

It may be curious to learn, from another incident which occurred about
the same time, at what rate her majesty caused her forgiveness of
lawful matrimony to be purchased.

Robert Cary, third son of lord Hunsdon, created lord Leppington by James
I. and earl of Monmouth by his successor,--from whose memoirs of himself
the following particulars are derived,--was at this time a young man and
an assiduous attendant on the court of his illustrious kinswoman. Being
a younger son, he had no patrimony either in possession or reversion; he
received from the exchequer only one hundred pounds per annum during
pleasure, and by the style of life which he found it necessary to
support, had incurred a debt of a thousand pounds. In this situation he
married a widow possessed of five hundred pounds per annum and some
ready money. His father evinced no displeasure on the occasion; but his
other friends, and especially the queen, were so much offended at the
match, that he took his wife to Carlisle and remained there without
approaching the court till the next year. Being then obliged to visit
London on business, his father suggested the expediency of his paying
the queen the compliment of appearing on _her day_. Accordingly, he
secretly prepared caparisons and a present for her majesty, at the cost
of more than four hundred pounds, and presented himself in the tilt-yard
in the character of "a forsaken knight who had vowed solitariness." The
festival over, he made himself known to his friends in court; but the
queen, though she had received his gift, would not take notice of his
presence.

It happened soon after, that the king of Scots sent to Cary's elder
brother, then marshal of Berwick, to beg that he would wait upon him to
receive a secret message which he wanted to transmit to the queen. The
marshal wrote to his father to inquire her majesty's pleasure in the
matter. She did not choose that he should stir out of Berwick; but
"knowing, though she would not know it," that Robert Cary was in court,
she said at length to lord Hunsdon, "I hear your fine son that has
married lately so worthily is hereabouts; send him if you will to know
the king's pleasure." His lordsh