Volume the First: Diplomatic DisplayOxfordBodleian Library, MS.Don.e.7.
Her Grace as soon as she had readafter having read it, the letter,which sufficiently explained the whole
af::fair, flew into the most violent paſsion &after having spent an agreable half hour,in calling them
by all the shocking Namesher rage could
suggest to her, sent out afterafter them 300£ armed Men, with orders notto
return without their Bodies, dead or alive; in::tending that if they should be brought to
herin the latter condition to have them put toDeath in some torturelike manner, after afew
years Confinement.
In the mean time Cecil & Elizacontinued their flight to the Continent, whichthey1 judged to be thmore2 secure than theirnative Land, from the dreadfull effects of
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