Note 1484 — Chapter XV

This objection was one so difficult to make without giving offense that it required all the delicacy of the English envoys to say anything at all. In C. S. P. For., No. 494 under date of July 20, 1572, will be found a draft of instructions to Walsingham in Burghley’s handwriting on this matter, and by him endorsed: “Not sent.” Burghley evidently preferred to leave this delicate subject to his sovereign. See the queen to Walsingham, ibid., No. 502, July 23, 1572, printed in full by Digges, p. 226.