Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Answer to the Lords' petition that she marry (April 10, 1563)
By permission of The British Library (MS Lansdowne 94, art. 15B, fol. 30r)
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The draft of Elizabeth's speech in 1563 shows scribbled corrections and insertions in her own hand. She promises Parliament that she will marry, but only when she is ready.

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