in Grindal's place: he and Cheke maintained their positions after the fall of Seymour in January to March 1548/9, though Cheke had to defend his own innocency and withdrew temporarily from the court. Elizabeth's fluency in Latin never deserted her, but was among the exceptional attributes of her royal authority, empowering her in all the formal business of the state. Her celebrated extempore harangue of a Polish ambassador in 1597, in which she poured out "a rolling flood of vituperative Latin, in which reproof, indignation, and sarcastic pleasantries followed one another with astonishing volubility", led her to conclude in English, smiling to her courtiers, "God's death, my lords! I have been enforced this day to scour up my old Latin which hath lain long rusting!" Rusty or not, the soundness of the structure was the work of Grindal and Ascham. Family William Grindal was married. Further research is needed on his wife's name as most documents just list her as William Grindal's wife. William Grindal had children Rachel(Grindal) Hooker (1538-1565) who married John Hooker (1524- unk). References 1548 deaths Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 16th-century scholars 16th-century English educators 16th-century deaths from plague (disease)