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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D.

CHAPTER XLIX
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She loved shows and expensive amusements, but possessed little taste in her pleasures.

A great comet appeared about the time of her death; and the vulgar esteemed it the prognostic of that event: so considerable in their eyes are even the most insignificant princes.
He left only one son, Charles, then in the twenty-fifth year of his age; and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to the elector palatine.

She was aged twenty-nine years.

Those alone remained of six legitimate children born to him.

He never had any illegitimate; and he never discovered any tendency, even the smallest, towards a passion for any mistress.
The archbishops of Canterbury during this reign were Whitgift, who died in 1604; Bancroft, in 1610; Abbot, who survived the king.


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