was increasing fearfully, and she thought it would be easier for her to
merely her lieutenant-general, and not stadholder for the Provinces.
effect upon her mind. Upon this subject, the Queen and Burghley,
than the Secretary, whom, however, it had been impossible wholly to
was not to be blinded to intrigues going on before his face. The Queen,
that informal transactions were pending, but had authorised the Secretary
knowledge and full concurrence. "She doth think," wrote Walsingham to
acquaint the council of state there that certain overtures of peace.html">peace.html">peace.html">peace are
their good liking and privity, being persuaded that there can no peace be
safety; and she doth acknowledge hers to be so linked with theirs as
their harm."
This communication.html">communication was dated on the 21st April, exactly three weeks after
bruits" concerning the pretended peace-negotiations; and the Secretary
hand, that she would "do nothing that might concern them without their
of the August treaty between the Queen and the States did not provide
of the other, there could be no doubt at all that its spirit absolutely
alone, or by the Netherlands alone, and that such an arrangement would be
advantage of the day when she was writing her letter to Heneage on the
On the 26th of the month--and only five days after the communication by
have been made to the States of their right to participate with her in
further--in assuring the States that we would make no peace without their
if our meaning had been well.html">well set down, and not mistaken by our Secretary
might pass between us and Spain, they might be well assured we would have
.
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