29 OCTOBER 1921, Page 25

In the English Historical Review for October, Mr. J. E.

Neale has a valuable paper on " Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562-3 and 1566," illustrating Queen Elizabeth's methods of dealing with her faithful Commons. He prints a new and fuller report of her racy sueech to a deputation which

asked her to name a successor, and also a hitherto unknown comment, in her own hand, on a preamble which the. Commons proposed to prefix to a Subsidy Bill. Elizabeth feared to name a successor lest her nominee and his rivals should endanger the peace by their intrigues, and she said so in plain terms.