An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq.

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An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq.
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Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.
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London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge, and Richard Tomlins,
1656.
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Mary, -- Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
James -- I, -- King of England, 1566-1625.
Sanderson, William, -- Sir, 1586?-1676. -- Compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son and successor, James the Sixth.
Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James.
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"An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62143.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.

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My mistakes, [That the Duke and Yelverton had no communi∣cation in the Tower.]* 1.1 And why? [Because Belfore that said so, was not Lieutenant then, but after Moor, which was since.] and could not Belfore be acquainted with what was done before, and so a suf∣ficient Author to report it?

[The like of Ree and Ramsey's Duell.]

Discoursing of Combats, tempore Iacobi, I mention many before

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and since, in reference to time, and give a hint of these (of late) two Scots, meaning the year (lately) when I write this History, 1655. for all men may know▪ it was in King Charles his time, and so to be understood from my own words.

To carp at me, [He cleers Chelsey house, that the Duke did not buy it, but had it for nothing; and bids me ask the Countesse of Mid∣dlesex, whether she did not tell him so?]

A pretty employment to enquire of a Lady, whether No-body does bely her?

The like of Copt-hall, [And that my mistakes, ignoranc, and errors are infiite, in language and matter.]

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