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Title: Queen Elizabeth
Makers of History

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: June 13, 2009 [EBook #29107]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Queen Elizabeth

BY

JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT.

[Illustration: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.]

PREFACE.

The author of this series has made it his special object to confine
himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records,
to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history,
but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the
strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive
examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves
occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail
himself of the best sources of information which this country affords;
and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in all
historical accounts, more or less of imperfection and error, there is no
intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minute
and apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed good
historical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the record
as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose and
a careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it.

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page

I. ELIZABETH'S MOTHER 13

II. THE CHILDHOOD OF A PRINCESS 39

III. LADY JANE GREY