-Scottish affairs-The Master of Gray-Sidney as Master of the Ordnance-The Low Countries deputation-Queen Elizabeth's help to the Netherlanders-Sidney's West Indian Flushing and its governor-The Earl of Leicester as Lord Lieutenant in the Netherlands-Sidney's appeals and pro- tests-"Called ambitious and proud"-Preliminary fighting Sidney's difficulties in the Netherlands-The battle of Zut- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (FROM AN ENGRAVING, BY H. 66 PAGE Frontispiece PENSHURST PLACE, KENT, AS SEEN FROM THE GARDEN . SIR HENRY SIDNEY (FROM AN ENGRAVING BY E. HARD 16 20 24 32 38 ING). . PHILIP SIDNEY AND HIS BROTHER ROBERT AS YOUTHS 46 (FROM AN ENGRAVING, BY O. LACOUR, OF THE CROWN" OF QUEEN ELIZABETH . 94 SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM (FROM AN ENGRAVING, BY OLD ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE BACK- 104 138 PAGE LUDLOW CASTLE, SHROPSHIRE (FROM AN GRAVING). . THE BARONIAL HALL OF PENSHURST PLACE CORNER OF WILTON HOUSE EDMUND SPENSER (FROM AN ENGRAVING BY W. B. OLD EN . 150 . 178 186 THE MINSTRELS' GALLERY IN THE BARONIAL HALL ZUCCHERO'S PORTRAIT AT PENSHURST) FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (FROM AN ENGRAV 66 ING IN LODGE'S PORTRAITS"). THE GATE AT WHITEHALL (FROM AN ENGRAVING BY . G. VERTUE) OLIVER, AT WINDSOR CASTLE) . ENGRAVING IN HEROOLOGIA ANGLICA"). CENTRAL TOWERS, NONSUCH HOUSE THE BLACK PINNACE (FROM THOMAS LANT'S CESSION AT THE OBSEQUIES OF SIR HEARTH IN THE OLD HALL AT PENSHURST 220 232 ROBERT DEVEREUX, SECOND EARL OF ESSEX (FROM AN ENGRAVING IN LODGE'S " PORTRAITS") SIDNEY'S TREE · 322 · 335 340 · 350 HE chivalry that grew up in Europe as part of the feudal system, giving it much of its strength and most of its adornment, was never so firmly established in England as in France. or in some other countries. And among Englishmen the medieval institution was broken down during the Wars of the Roses, about a century before Sir Philip Sidney was addressed by Edmund Spenser, and honoured by all whose honour was worth having in his day, as the president Of nobless and of chivalry. |