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OF THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA. 263
by the present dangers, iihied aH her orders with tranquillity*
animated her people to a Ready rehRance, and employed every
relource, which either her domeRicstuation or her foreign
alliances could afford her. She sent Sir Robert Sydney into
Scotland; and exhorted the King to remain attached to her,
and to coniider the danger, which at present menaced his sove-
reignty no less than her own, Rom the ambition os theSpanifh
tyrantThe ambahador found James well dilposed to cultivate
an union with England, and that prince even kept himlels pre-
pared to march with the force os his whole kingdom to the
asHRance of Elizabeth. Her authority with the King osDen-
mark, and the tye os their common religion, engaged this
monarch, upon her application, to seixe a squadronof ships,
which Philip hadbought or hired in theDanish harbours: The
Hanse Towns, though not at that time on good terms with
Elizabeth, were induced, by the same motives, to retard so long
the equipment os seme vehels in their ports, that they became
nseless to the purpoie of invading England. All the protcRants
throughout Europe regarded this enterprize as the critical
event, which was to decide for ever the fate os their religion;
and though unable,by reason os their diRance,to jointheirforce
to that os Elizabeth, they kept their eyes iixed on her conduA
and fortune, and beheld with anxiety, mixed with admiration,
the intrepid countenance, with which sile encountered that
dreadful tempelt, which was every moment approaching to-
wards her.
The Queen also was fenRble, that, next to the general po-
pularity, which she enjoyed, and the confidence, which her
lubjeAs reposedinherprudent government, the iinneR sup-
port of her throne contiRed in the general zeal of the people
for the proteRantreligion,and the Rrong prejudices which they
had imbibed againR popery. She took care, on the present oc-
casiou,to revive in the nation this attachment to their own seA*.
and this abhorrence os theopposte. The English were re-
minded of theirformerdangersrom the tyranny of Spain: All
the barbarities, exercised by Mary againR the proteRants,were
aseribed to tbecounsels osthatbigottedandimperiousnation:
The bloody massacres in the Indies, theunrelenting executions
in the Low Countries, the horrid cruelties and iniquities os the
inquistion, were let before men's eyes: AliRanddelcription
was published,and pi Aures ditpersed, os the several inRruments
os torture, with which, it was pretended, the Spanish Armada
was loaded: And every artijee, as well ns reason, was em-
R 4 ployed*
by the present dangers, iihied aH her orders with tranquillity*
animated her people to a Ready rehRance, and employed every
relource, which either her domeRicstuation or her foreign
alliances could afford her. She sent Sir Robert Sydney into
Scotland; and exhorted the King to remain attached to her,
and to coniider the danger, which at present menaced his sove-
reignty no less than her own, Rom the ambition os theSpanifh
tyrantThe ambahador found James well dilposed to cultivate
an union with England, and that prince even kept himlels pre-
pared to march with the force os his whole kingdom to the
asHRance of Elizabeth. Her authority with the King osDen-
mark, and the tye os their common religion, engaged this
monarch, upon her application, to seixe a squadronof ships,
which Philip hadbought or hired in theDanish harbours: The
Hanse Towns, though not at that time on good terms with
Elizabeth, were induced, by the same motives, to retard so long
the equipment os seme vehels in their ports, that they became
nseless to the purpoie of invading England. All the protcRants
throughout Europe regarded this enterprize as the critical
event, which was to decide for ever the fate os their religion;
and though unable,by reason os their diRance,to jointheirforce
to that os Elizabeth, they kept their eyes iixed on her conduA
and fortune, and beheld with anxiety, mixed with admiration,
the intrepid countenance, with which sile encountered that
dreadful tempelt, which was every moment approaching to-
wards her.
The Queen also was fenRble, that, next to the general po-
pularity, which she enjoyed, and the confidence, which her
lubjeAs reposedinherprudent government, the iinneR sup-
port of her throne contiRed in the general zeal of the people
for the proteRantreligion,and the Rrong prejudices which they
had imbibed againR popery. She took care, on the present oc-
casiou,to revive in the nation this attachment to their own seA*.
and this abhorrence os theopposte. The English were re-
minded of theirformerdangersrom the tyranny of Spain: All
the barbarities, exercised by Mary againR the proteRants,were
aseribed to tbecounsels osthatbigottedandimperiousnation:
The bloody massacres in the Indies, theunrelenting executions
in the Low Countries, the horrid cruelties and iniquities os the
inquistion, were let before men's eyes: AliRanddelcription
was published,and pi Aures ditpersed, os the several inRruments
os torture, with which, it was pretended, the Spanish Armada
was loaded: And every artijee, as well ns reason, was em-
R 4 ployed*