A STUDY IN ELIZABETHAN
STATECRAFT BY

MARTIN A. S. HUME

Author of “The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth,” Editor of the Calendars of Spanish State Papers (Public Record Office)

He can never be a good statesman who respecteth not the public more than his own private advantage.”—Lord Burghley

London
JAMES NISBET & CO., LIMITED
21 BERNERS STREET
1898

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press


TO THE MOST HONOURABLE