Which speech, after Sir Thomas Heneage had devised, and we both perused and allowed, he, by our consent and advice, pronounced to the council of state.

This we did think needful--especially because every one of the council that was present at the reading of her Majesty's first letters, was of the full mind, that if her Majesty should again show the least mislike of the present government, or should not by her next letters confirm it, they, were all undone--for that every man would cast with himself which way to make his peace." Thus adroitly had the "poor gentleman, who could not find it in his heart to come again into the place, where--by his own sufferings torn--he was made to appear so lewd a person"-- provided that there should remain no trace of that lewdness and of his sovereign's displeasure, upon the record of the States.

It was not long, too, before the Earl was enabled to surmount his mortification; but the end was not yet.
The universal suspicion, consequent on these proceedings, grew most painful.

It pointed to one invariable quarter.

It was believed by all that the Queen was privately treating for peace, and that the transaction was kept a secret not only from the States but from her own most trusted counsellors also.