I have seen _something_  _somewhere_ in which Elizabeth I's
popularity and public image is "traced" to her "replacing" the
Virgin Mary in the hearts of the English people after the
Reformation. I will attempt to track that down. I believe I
read it in a moderately recent (10 to 30 years old)
biography.

Elizabeth Whitaker
Alexandria, Virginia -- from the "Jabez" line but my folks left
the state in the early 1700s for North Carolina

Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
> This is a very good question that has been asked here and elsewhere
> before but not adequately answered. Everybody knows that Walter Ralegh
> named the place for the queen, but has anybody found a source (his or
> another's) that explicitly states as much and gives a date? Ralegh wrote
> quite a bit, and the answer may be concealed somewhere in one of his
> books or in some obscure British archival source. What everybody knows
> ain't always so.
>
> Brent Tarter
> The Library of Virginia
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>   

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