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THe first line names me, [One Mr. Sanderson (saith he) who hath lately written a Book, which hee calls a Compleat History of Mary Queen of Scotland, and Iames her Son, the Sixth of Scot∣land and first of England.] He is false in his first Page; not vouchsafing to recite the truth▪ or to afford him the Title, K. Iames; and goes on [that it is not a History, but a Libell, against all good Men, and good actions, and with most servile flattery, prayseth and exalteth the bad, both Men and matters: That this whole Booke is a Rapsody of Notes, and scattered papers, without order or method, exceedingly defective, both in time, place, and Nomination; unseem∣ly and disjoynted▪ a stile without understanding, &c. The language darke, harsh and intelligible.]
Thus, his first page fills, and is fals in all▪ In reciting my Ti••le which is, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reignes of Mary Queene of Scotland, and of her Sonne and Successor Iames the sixth, King of Scotland, and (after Queen Elizabeth) King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland the first, of ever blessed memory. And in all and every one of the rest▪ his scandalls, as to every particular, I submit to to the sensure of wiser men than my selfe, and honester than he the Ob∣servator, or these, his Book-sellers, Bedell and Collins.