![]() ![]() It was about this incident that Elizabeth is supposed to have said ‘My dogs wear my collars’. Michael, but the Queen, in a ‘passion’ and ‘rage’ at his wearing at court foreign insignia accepted without her leave, imprisoned him first in the ‘noisome’ Fleet, then in the Tower ‘where I look rather to die than live’, and forced him to return the order, though to do so was to make ‘a scorn of that nation, which is so jealous of their honour’. ![]() Henri IV conferred on him the order of St. Like his first cousin Sir Conyers, Clifford was in the service of his cousin Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, who knighted him for gallantry at Rouen. ![]()
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