Bayan haka, sai ya amsa tambayar a baya a cikin wannan harshe kamar yadda aka wuce: Passage: Babban mashawarcin Elizabeth, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, ya mutu a ranar 4 ga Agusta 1598. Matsayinsa na siyasa ya wuce ga dansa, Robert Cecil, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya zama shugaban gwamnati. Ɗaya daga cikin ayyukan da ya yi magana da shi shi ne don shirya hanya don maye gurbinsa. Tun da Elizabeth ba zai taba sunansa ba, Cecil ya tilasta shi ya ci gaba a asirce. Saboda haka, ya shiga cikin tattaunawa tare da James VI na Scotland, wanda yake da karfi amma ba a san shi ba. Cecil ya horar da James mai haƙuri game da Elizabeth da kuma "tabbatar da zuciyar Elizabeth, wanda ba shi da jima'i da inganci ba shi da kyau kamar yadda yake buƙatar nuna rashin fahimta ko kuma sha'awar sha'awa a cikin ayyukanta".
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