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456 REIGN OF ELIZABEHT. [CH. 4 s Botli Queen and lords carried their complaints to de Silva ; the lords urging him to use his influence to force her into taking the Archduke; Elizabeth complaining of their insolence and especially of the ingratitude of Leicester. Her very honour, she said, had suffered for the favour which she had shown to Leicester ; and now she would send him to his house in the country, and the Archduke should have nothing to be jealous of. 1 The committee- went on with the work. ' On the 2nd of November the form of the ad- dress was still undetermined ; they were undecided whether to insist most on the marriage, or on the nom- ination, or on both. In some shape or other however a petition of a serious kind would unquestionably be pre- sented, and Elizabeth prepared to receive it with as much self-restraint as she could command. Three days later she understood that the deliberations were con- cluded. To have the interview over as soon as possible Elizabeth sent for the committee at once ; and on the afternoon of the 5th of November, ' by her Highnesses special commandment/ twenty-five lay Peers, the Bishops of Durham and London, and thirty members of the Lower House presented themselves at the palace at Westminster. The address was read by Bacon. After grateful acknowledgments of the general go vernment of the Queen the two Houses desired, first, to express their wish that her Highness would be pleased 1 De Silva to Philip, November 4 : MS. Simancas.