The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys, : written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie..
Salisbury, Robert Cecil,Earl of,1563-1612.
Crompton, Richard,active 1573-1599.
Elizabeth,I,Queen of England,1533-1603.
Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie,
1586..
The letter signed: R.C., i.e. Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.
Sometimes attributed to Richard Crompton.
Regarding the proposed execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The last leaf is blank.
From p. 4 on, even numbers are on the rectos.
The letter comes in two versions; A3r, text starts (1) "Albeit with earnest" or (2) "Albeit the earnest".
Signatures: A-E⁴.
A1v = woodcut coat of arms.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.