...long life of power, prosperity, and national glory. She expired on the twentyfourth of March, 1603, in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign." By order of Cecil, and contrary to Elizabeth's express commands, her body was embalmed. It was then...

...voice failed, and her senses were lost ; and falling into a lethargic slumber, she gently expired, in the seventieth year of her age, and the fortyfifth of her reign. So dark was the cloud which overspread the evening of that day, whose meridian splendour dazzled the...

...principles of the English constitution were not yet developed. Elizabeth died in the year 1603, being then in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reigu. IV. COTEMPORARY HISTORY.—1. If we pass from European history to that of other portions of...

...voice soon after left her; she fell into a lethargic slumber, which continued some hours ; and she expired gently, without a groan, in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign 11. Her character differed with her circumstances ; in the beginning she was moderate and humble ;...

...policy than either the justice or the legality. Elizabeth died on the twenty-fourth of March, 1603, in the seventieth year of her age and the fortyfifth of her reign. One of the first requests addressed to her by the Parliament after she came to the throne was that...

...you — I never can ! " Elizabeth did not recover this shock, but died a few days after at Richmond, in the seventieth year of her age and the forty-fifth of her reign. JAMES THE FIRST. JAMES the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, was descended from Margaret...

...by the execution of the ill-fated Essex, whose death she never ceased to lament. She died in 1603, in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign, leaving to her successor a kingdom which she had raised to the highest rank among European states,...

...enacted that the surname of Ruthven should be abolished. Queen Elizabeth died on the 24th of March, 1604, in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign. A short time previous lo' her death, she declared to Cecil and the lord-admiral, " that her cousin,...

...married, her policy making her entertain an aversion to the marriage state. She died March 24th, 1603, in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign. OF STUART. JAMES I. Kome, June 19th, 1566, but was afterwards educated in the Protestant religion....

...their invasion. She died at Richmond on the 24th of March, 1608, after a short but very sad illness, in the seventieth year of her age, and the fortyfifth of her reign. She was a great queen, though as a woman anything but admirable. She swore occasionally when roused;...