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The Armada and the fire-ships off Calais<br />

Battle of Gravelines<br />

Defeat of the Spaniards<br />

Spanish and English losses<br />

Expedition to Portugal, 1589<br />

v ailure at Lisbon<br />

Expedition to the Azores. Loss of the Revenge. Capture of the Madre de Dios<br />

Poverty of Spain<br />

Expedition of 1595-6. Death of Hawkins<br />

Death of Drake<br />

Expedition to Cadiz, 1596<br />

Cadiz taken by storm<br />

The Islands' Voyage. End of the naval war, 1598 . . . . .<br />

Its results<br />

CHAPTER X.<br />

THE LAST YEARS OF ELIZABETH.<br />

By SIDNEY LEE, Litt.D.<br />

England before and after 1588<br />

The Queen and the Court factions . . . . . . . .<br />

Domestic discontent. The Queen's chief minister, Burghley .<br />

Sir Francis Walsingham<br />

Rise of Sir Robert Cecil .<br />

Sir Walter Ralegh. Rise of the Earl of Essex<br />

Sir Philip Sidney<br />

Anthony Bacon and foreign intelligence. Trial and execution of Dr Lopez.<br />

Francis Bacon and his connexion with Essex<br />

Improvement in Essex' position . . . . . . . .<br />

Division in the Queen's Council<br />

Essex in Ireland. His downfall<br />

His rebellion and execution, 1601<br />

Growth of Puritan discontent. Browne and Cartwright . . . .<br />

Whitgift Primate<br />

His policy of repression . . . . . . . . . .<br />

Assertion of the episcopal authority. John Penry's petition to Parliament<br />

The Martin Mar-prelate controversy . . . . . . . .<br />

Anti-Puritan Statute of 1593<br />

"litgifVs misconceptions . . . . . . . . . .<br />

je " Lambeth Articles." Bacon's plea for toleration . . . .<br />

newel's Apologia and Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity<br />

Political perils of Catholicism. Bull of Excommunication, 1570<br />

Catholic mission in England. Acts of 1581 and 1585 . . . .<br />

The loyal Catholics<br />

English Catholics at home and abroad . . . . . . .<br />

Appointment of an Archpriest in England . . . . . .<br />

Continued policy of coercion against Catholics. Possion of Parliament<br />

under Elizabeth<br />

Economic distress<br />

Poor-law. Taxation and the City of London<br />

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