Note 387 — Chapter XI

So highly was this treaty esteemed by the statesmen of the following reign, that in the negotiations for a marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, the marriage articles of Philip and Mary were repeatedly quoted in a memorial endorsed by Lord Burghley, and still preserved at Hatfield, in answer to objections brought forward against the Queen’s marriage with a foreign prince. “It behoves her Majesty” said Elizabeth’s ministers, “to have the like proceedings herein as was for Queen Mary’s marriage.” The country should not be governed by a foreigner, but by the Queen herself and her Council, by the laws of the realm “as it was in the time of King Philip and Queen Mary” (Historical MSS. Commission, Hatfield MSS., vol. ii., pp. 241, 243, 288, 291-93, 544, 556).