With the year 1588, then, he closed his labours.

Even the perverse critics who had assumed to treat the History of Henry VIII.

as an anti-ecclesiastical pamphlet were compelled to show more respect for volumes which gave so much novel information to the world.

Moreover Henry's daughter was a very different person from her father.

Scandal about Queen Elizabeth had been chiefly confined to Roman Catholics, and few Englishmen had forgotten who made England the mistress of the seas.