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Christopher Hatton
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Sir Christopher Hatton (12 December 1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I. He was one of the judges who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason.
Quotes
England hath been accounted hitherto the most renowned kingdom for valour and manhood in all Christendom; and shall we now lose our old reputation? If we should, it had been better for England we had never been born.
Speech at the opening of Parliament (4 February 1589), in J. E. Neale, Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments, 1584–1601 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1957) p. 201
About Hatton
So you, great lord, that with your counsel swayThe burden of this kingdom mightily,With like delights sometimes may eke delayThe rugged brow of careful policy.
Edmund Spenser, dedicatory sonnet, The Faerie Queene (1590)
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Category:1540 births
Category:1591 deaths
Category:Members of the Parliament of England
Category:Lord Chancellors (United Kingdom)
Category:University of Oxford alumni