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* ELIZABETHAN ARCHITECTURE. Cliristmas, Rodolph Symonds, and Tliomas Holt. Consult: Richardson, ".4rr/ii(cr/i-«/ Hemaiun of the Reig-iis of Elizubrth and -fniues I. (London, 1840) ; Blomlield, Hintori/ of livnaissaiwe Archi- BLICELINO HALL. tecture in England (London, 1S07) : Gosch and Brow-n, Architecture of the Renaissance in Eng- land (London, 1894). ELIZABETH CHARLOTTE (ie52-1721). A Puchess of OrU'ans. Slie was born at Heidel- berjr, and was a daughter of the Elector Palatine, Charles Louis, and a Hessian princess. Although thoroughly German in temperament and tastes, she was for political reasons married to Duke Philip of Orleans, brother to Louis XIV., in 1671. The fearful devastation of the Palatinate by Louis XIV. (1689), which filled all Europe with horror, was the result of claims to territory which the 'Grand Monarque' made on the strength of this marriage. The extensive correspondence of Elizabeth with her family (7 vols., •2d ed., pub- lished in 1867-82) and with Leibnitz throws very interesting side-lights upon the history of the period. ELI'ZABETH CITY. A town, port of entry, and the county-seat of Pasquotank County, N. C, 411 miles south of Norfolk, Va.. on the Pas- quotank River, and on the Norfolk and Southern 807 ELIZABETH PETROVNA. Railroad. A State X'ormal School and a custom- house are located here. The city has a good har- bor, is in a productive agricultural region, and carries on a eonsideralile trade in cotton, lumber, and fish, oyster cultivation being an important industry. There are saw and planing mills, .shingle - factories, cot- ton - mills, cotton - gins. Hour Mand grist mills, iron - works, maehine-shops, a shipbuild- ing yard, and manufactures -' ' " of bricks, carriages and wag- ons, mattresses, etc. I'nder a charter of 1899, the gov- ernment is vested in a mayor, who hohls otlice for two years, and a municipal council, which elects the mayor as well as the police. Elizabeth City was settled and incor- porated in 179.3. Population, in 1S90, :'.2.')I ; in I'.MKI, t',:U8. ELIZABETH FARNESE, far-na'za. Sec Kahnesi:. ELIZABETH ISLANDS. A group of 10 small inlands belonging to Massachusetts. Iving southwest of Barnstable County and between Buzzard's Bay and Vineyard Sound ( jiap : Massachusetts, F .5 ) . They form the town of Gos- nold. Dukes County, and cover 14 square miles. The islands, of which Naushoii and Nashawena are the two largest, have a fine climate and scenery and afford excel- lent fishing. They are popu- lar summer resorts. Perma- nent population, in 1900, 164. On Cuttyhunk Island the foundations of the first Eng- lish colony of New England were laid in 1602 by Bar- tholomew Gosnold, only to be abandoned the same year. ELIZABETH PETROVNA ( 1 709-62 ). Em- press of Russia from 1741 to 1702. She was the daugliter of Peter the Great and Catharine I., and was born December 29, 1709. On the death of her nephew. Peter II.. in 1730. she sulVored Anna, Duchess of Courland, daughter of Ivan V., to ascend the throne. (See Anna Ivanovna.) Anna died in 1740, and Ivan, the son of her niece Anna Karlovna (q.v.), an infant of two months, was declared Emperor, and his mother made Regent during his minority. Shortly after this a plot was formed to place Elizabeth upon the throne; the two principal agents in it were Lestocq, a surgeon, and the Marquis de la Che- tardie, the French Ambassador. The otlicers of the army were won over, and on the night of Decem- ber 5. 1741, the Regent and her husband were taken into custody, and the child Tvan was con- veyed to Schliissciburg. By eight o'clock in the morning the revolution was accomplished. La Chetardie was handsomely rewarded; and Les- tocq was created first physician to the Empress, president of the College "of Medicine, and Privy Councilor. Elizabeth lacked energy, knowledge.