Christopher Hatton

Family

Notable 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

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