Her passionate temper may also be proved from many lively instances; and it was not unusual with her to beat her maids of honor.

See the Sidney Papers, vol.ii.p.

38.

The blow she gave to Essex before the privy council is another instance.

There remains in the Museum a letter of the earl of Huntingdon's, in which he complains grievously of the queen's pinching his wife very sorely, on account of some quarrel between them.