such Scandals to their Country & their Sex as toallow & aſsist their Queen in confining for theSpace of nineteen Years, a Woman who if thethe claims of Relationship & Merit were of noavail, yet as a Queen & as one who condescended to place confidence in her, had every reason toexpect Aſsistance & protection; and at length in allowing Elizabeth to bring this amiableWoman to an untimely, unmerited, and scan--dalous Death. Can any one if he reflects but for a moment on this blot, this ever--lasting blot upon their Understanding& their Character, allow any praise to Lord Burleigh or Sir Francis Walsingham? Oh! whatmust this bewitching Princeſs whose onlyfreind was then the Duke of Norfolk, and