Abstract
Elizabeth I approved of mediation and practised it herself. Among the manuscripts preserved by the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield House is the agreement between the Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife, Bess of Hardwick, dated 7 August 1586.2 The queen herself presided over the mediation, which she put into the hands of Lord Chancellor Bromley and the head of her administration, Lord Treasurer Cecil, Lord Burghley:3 1. … these things being reported to her Majesty by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer, her Majesty called the Earl and his wife unto her, and in many good words shewed herself very glad thereof, and thanked the Earl, for that she knew he had conformed himself to this good act for her sake and at her request, adding that she took it to tend much to her honour that by her mediation they both were thus accorded. And with many good comfortable speeches required them both to proceed and persevere in this godly act of reconcilement. And so they both shewed themselves very well content with her Majesty's speeches, and in good sort departed together.
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