"Not surprisingly, the cult of Elizabeth grew directly in proportion to the perceived Catholic menace. In the autumn of 1626, while ladies at court were dallying with the Mass, and while Spanish forces appeared ascendant in Europe, the anniversary of Elizabeth's accession produced a resounding clamour of bells. "Today these bells rang merrily in remembrance of famous Queen Elizabeth" wrote one London correspondent on 17 November. Similarly in 1630 there was "universal ringing of bells for Queen Elizabeth's coronation" on 17 November... This anniversary ringing, quite innocent of official prompting, combined elements of reassurance and defiance, as if the commemoration of Elizabeth could somehow restore the virtues of her reign. "Our Elizabeth" had become the unofficial patron saint of England."
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David Cressy, Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England (1989), p. 136
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