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
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TO THE MOST HONOURABLE