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Project Gutenberg's Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, by Lucy Aikin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Author: Lucy Aikin Release Date: May 16, 2007 [EBook #21500] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COURT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH *** Produced by Paul Murray, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's note: A small number of typographical errors found in the original, printed book have been corrected; neither the language nor the spelling has been modernized. There are two chapters numbered thirteen; they have been labeled XIIIa and XIIIb.] [Illustration: QUEEN ELIZABETH In the dress in which she went to St Pauls, to return thanks for the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Engraved by Bond, from the extremely rare print by Crispin de Passe, after a drawing by Isaac Oliver.] MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH BY LUCY AIKIN IN TWO VOLUMES. (combined) LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1818. PRINTED BY RICHARD AND ARTHUR TAYLOR, SHOE-LANE. PREFACE. In the literature of our country, however copious, the eye of the curious student may still detect important deficiencies. We possess, for example, many and excellent histories, embracing every period of our domestic annals;--biographies, general and particular, which appear to have placed on record the name of every private individual justly entitled to such commemoration;--and numerous and extensive collections of original letters, state-papers and other historical and antiquarian documents;--whilst our comparative penury is remarkable in royal lives, in court histories, and especially in that class which forms the glory of French literature,--memoir. To supply in some degree this want, as it affects the person and reign of one of the most illustrious of female and of European sovereigns, is the intention of the work now offered with much diffidence to the public. Its plan comprehend
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