Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Opening of the book

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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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.
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MEMOIRS
OF
THE COURT
OF

QUEEN ELIZABETH
By LUCY AIKIN
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IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I. & VOL. II. combined
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LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND
BROWN,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
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1818.
PRINTED BY RICHARD AND ARTHUR TAYLOR, SHOE-LANE.

Volume I.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX,
X, XI, XII, XIIIa, XIIIb, XIV, XV, XVI.
Volume II.
CHAPTER XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII,
XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII.
On The Domestic Architecture of The Reign Of
Elizabeth.
INDEX.
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

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