Scrinia Ceciliana, mysteries of state & government in letters of the late famous Lord Burghley, and other grand ministers of state, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James, being a further additional supplement of the Cabala.

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Title: Scrinia Ceciliana, mysteries of state & government in letters of the late famous Lord Burghley, and other grand ministers of state, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James, being a further additional supplement of the Cabala.
Publication: London :: Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins ...,; 1663.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1625.
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Sir Francis Bacon, to the King, upon the sending unto him a beginning of a History of his Majesties time.

It may please your Majesty,

HEaring that you are at leisure to peruse story, a desire took me to make an experiment what I could do in your Majesties times, which, being but a leaf or two, I pray your pardon, if I send it for your recreatiou, considering, that love must creep, where it cannot go. But to this I add these petitions: First, that if your Majesty do dislike any thing, you would conceive I can amend it upon your least beck. Next, that if I have not spoken of your Majesty encomiastically, your Majesty will be pleased only to ascribe it to the Law of an History, which doth not clutter together praises, upon the first mention of a name, but rather disperseth them, and weaveth them throughout the whole Narration: And as for the proper place of commemoration (which is in the period of life) I pray God I may fiever live to write it. Thirdly, that the reason why I presumed to think of this oblation, was, because whatso∣ever my disability be, yet I shall have that advantage which almost no writer of History hath had, in that I shall write the times, not only since I could remember, but since I could observe. And lastly, that it is only for your Majesties reading.