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 th

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.

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