The history of the reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the first written by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; the other three by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Godwyn, Lord Bishop of Hereford.
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- The history of the reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the first written by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; the other three by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Godwyn, Lord Bishop of Hereford.
- Author
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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- London :: Printed by W.G. for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and J. Edwyn,
- 1676.
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- Subject terms
- Henry -- VII, -- King of England, 1457-1509.
- Henry -- VIII, -- King of England, 1491-1547.
- Edward -- VI, -- King of England, 1537-1553.
- Mary -- I, -- Queen of England, 1516-1558.
- Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.
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"The history of the reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the first written by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; the other three by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Godwyn, Lord Bishop of Hereford." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28237.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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The Translator's Dedication.
To the Right Honorable, the Lord SCUDAMORE, VISCOVNT SLEGO.
My Lord,
ALthough I have ever been averse from works of this nature, as desirous to know them in the Original, rather than in any after∣taught Language, yet have I not unwillingly undergone the task of this Trans∣lation. It is an English History of those tur∣bulent times, whereof no one hath written either so largely or freely as this Author, who intended it for the common good, whereof the meer English, without these or the like pains of some other would have been incapa∣ble. Your Lordship hath known it in the Latin, which Tongue you have naturalized. Wherefore this Dedication may seem needless.
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But it is due to you as the work of your Ser∣vant, in which regard it craves your Honorable Patronage. It hath hitherto walked under Royal Protection. Other would not have be∣fitted the Author of this ingenuous History, by the exemplified Miseries whereof the busie Spirits of these times may learn rightly to deem of our modern Happiness. But even small grievances in any Part make us insensible of the general good estate of the Whole. We will be ignorant of our good, and unhappy. As for these Annals, they have long passed with approbation. If they now distast, let the fault be the Translators, and the Pardon Yours; to whom alone my maiden pen sueth for favour, and to whose service dedicateth himself
Your Honours most humbly devoted, MORG. GODWYN.