...customary champion rode into the room, in complete armor, and offered to defeud against all gainsayers the "most high and mighty princess, our dread sovereign, Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of Q0d, Queen of England, France, Ireland, Defender of the true, ancient and catholic faith, most worthy...

...and ratified upon the Thursday next after the feast of Easter, in the xiij. year of the reign of our sovereign lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, by the oaths of Nicholas Olivers, then mayor of the said town,...

...proclamation made by Garter King-at-arms during the banquet in Westminster Hall, styled her majesty : " The most high and mighty princess our dread sovereign...of the true ancient and Catholic faith, most worthy Empresa of the Ossade Isles, to the mountains Pyranee." At the very time the new sovereign assumed...

...failings which disfigured the fair fame of 'Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland ; Defender of the true, ancient, and Catholic...worthy Empress from the Orcade Isles to the mountains Pyrenee.' * We have had to deal mainly with her private and personal character ; her more strictly...

...failings which disfigured the fair fame of " Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the true, ancient, and Catholic...worthy Empress from the Orcade Isles to the mountains Pyrenee."* We have had to deal mainly with her private and personal character; her more strictly political...

...which disfigured the fair fame of ' Elizabeth, by the grace of Giod, Queen of England, France, and Ireland ; Defender of the true, ancient, and Catholic...worthy Empress from the Orcade Isles to the mountains Pyrenee.' * We have had to deal mainly with her private and personal character ; her more strictly...

...failings which disfigured the fair fame of " Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the true, ancient, and Catholic...worthy Empress from the Orcade Isles to the mountains Pyrenee."* We have had to deal mainly with her private and personal character; her more strictly political...

...Elizabeth, in 1559, when the champion, Sir Edward Dymock, cast down his gauntlet, and offered to defend the " Most high and mighty princess, our dread sovereign,...worthy empress from the Orcade Isles to the Mountains Pyrenee." The words in italics are singular, inasmuch as the Bishop of Carlisle was the only bishop...

...seal unto these presents : given the xxiiid day of Januarie, in the fiveth yere of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. (Ledger F. 87.) Ee hit knowen unto all men, to whome these presents shall come, that we...

..." This indenture, made the 1st day of February, in the one-and -thirtieth year* of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Between the Honorable Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight, Lord Warden...