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Description: | Summary: Although such a concourse of learned men a maiden blush might challenge silence, yet, the earnest entreaties of her nobles and her own well wishing have incited her on the ground of the increase of scholarship in general and on the expectation of something to be done at this time for the furtherance of learning. The former she prays for and entreats them to employ their best endeavours in achieving the second she will neglect nothing that would prejudice their loving and kind conceit of her. In the forenoon she had seen the stately structures built by princes of famous memory, her predecessors, and grieved, as did Alexander, on beholding the monuments of other princes, that any for his own time should exceed him. She consoled herself that she was not so aged but that before she died she might perform some noble act and if she should die first she would yet have some noble work to survive her and by her example add cheerfulness to their studies.
After the apparently verbatim account of the Queen's speech are set out subjects for debate. These are the pholosophic positions: a monarchy is the best state of a commonwealth; the often change of laws is dangerous; of physic, one kind of meat is better than many; a large supper is better than than a large dinner; of divinity, the authority of the scriptures is greater than that of the church; a civil magistrate hath authority in ecclesiastical affairs; of civil law, any private person may be compelled to undergo a public office; he that lends money to one playing at dice cannot require it again.
The writer notes that the last positions were not debated because of lack of time.
Richard Bertie had attended the Queen at Cambridge. Printed in modernized spelling in G. Bertie, Five Generations of a Loyal House, 1845, pp. 37-40. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 1564 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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