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Sir Francis Walsingham, .... Frontispiece 



Sir Francis Walsingham was born about 1530. He 

 matriculated at King's College, Cambridge, and 

 subsequently entered Gray's Inn. On Queen 

 Mary's accession he left England and travelled on 

 the Continent, but returned home on her death. 

 He then entered Parliament as member for Ban- 

 bury, and later represented Lyme Regis and Surrey. 

 His knowledge of foreign affairs brought him under 

 the notice of Burghley, and through his foreign 

 friends and correspondents he obtained much valu- 

 able secret intelligence. In 1570 he went on an 

 embassy to Paris, and later in that year was ap- 

 pointed resident ambassador at the French Court. 

 In December, 1573, Walsingham was appointed one 

 of the principal Secretaries of State, and in 1577 

 was knighted. He was one of the Commissioners 

 who tried Mary, Queen of Scots, and it was largely 

 on the secret information obtained by him that she 

 was condemned. Walsingham died in London on 6th 

 April, 1590, and was buried privately the next night 

 in St. Paul's. The portrait here reproduced is from 

 the engraving in the British Museum of the original 

 formerly in the collection of the Duke of Dorset. 



John Eldred, 8 



According to the tablet beneath the monument, which 

 is here pictured, in Great Saxham Church, Suffolk, 



