Excerpt from The Reign of Elizabeth, Vol. 3 Spain, and Mary Stuart would have found a champion. Had Mary Stuart been unconnected with France, the difficulty would have been greater but still not insur mountable. And again, had there been no Spain, the French would never have submitted to be driven out of Scotland, or would have found an easy means to revenge themselves in the intestine divisions of Eng land. But as with the calms in the Northern latitudes, which are caused by the conflict and counterpoise of opposed atmospheric currents, the mutual jealousies of the two Powers left Elizabeth more free to settle her own difficulties than if the ditch which divided England from the Continent had been the Atlantic it self. She had the advantage of the neighbourhood without its evil, for her disaffected subjects, instead of trusting to their own energies, built their hopes on as sistence from abroad which never came. She had robbed Philip of his money, imprisoned his ambassa dor, destroyed his commerce, assisted his subjects in rebellion, and invaded his Indian colonies yet to keep her on the throne continued the same necessity to him as when ten years before he had rejected the entrea ties of De Feria and De Quadra to make himself mas ter of England by force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.