Word: walsingham
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Conyers Read '03, recently Professor of History in the University of Chicago, is the author of "Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth," a work of great historic value. In this story of the life of Elizabeth's second great minister, Sir Francis Walsingham, a patron of the arts and advocate of oversees expansion, Mr. Read has publication during the present month, of the most intriguing corners of English history...
...discovery of the letters by Walsingham caused Mary's trial for treason; but she refused to answer before the court, saying that, as a crowned Queen, she was not a subject of Elizabeth and could not therefore be guilty of treason against her. Her silence was probably immaterial because her enemies were so powerful and numerous and state reasons for her death so strong that she would probably have been executed even had the truth been known...