Excerpt from Queen Elizabeth and Her Times, Vol. 2 of 2: A Series of Original Letters; Selected From the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Most of the Distinguished Persons of the Period Don Lewis Zuniga de Requesens, great Commendator of Castile, who had now succeeded the Duke of Alva in the government of the Netherlands. To conciliate Queen Elizabeth, he ordered the English rebels to quit Flanders, and dissolved the seminary at Douay, during the present year. A commendator was one who enjoyed the rents of an abbey or other benefice. Dr. Wilson was sent over as ambassador at the latter end of the preceding year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.