The compleat ambassador
Subtitle: or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory
By: comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France ; together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others ; wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood ; with many remarkable passages of state, not at all mentioned in any history ; faithfully collected by the truly Honourable, Sir Dudly Digges, knight.
Contributors: A. H.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Newcomb, Thomas, d. 1681 or 2, printer.; Bedell, Gabriel, d. 1668, bookseller.; Collins, Thomas, fl. 1650-1682, bookseller.
Publisher: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins
Published: 1655
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France; France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Edited by A. H.

"From copies found among his papers, the correspondence of Elizabeth with Leicester, Burghley, Walsingham and Sir Thomas Smith ... was published ... under the title of 'The compleat ambassador.'"--Dict. nat. biog.

Includes index.

Title in red and black.

Head-pieces, decorative initials.

Signatures: 4 unsigned leaves, a4, c4, B-Z4, 2A-2Z4, 3A-3I4, 3K2.

Signing errors: D1 missigned as C1, I2 occurs twice, Nn1 not signed, Ss1 missigned as S1, Eee2 as Ee2.

With: Cabala, sive scrinia sacra: mysteries of state and government. London : G. Bedell and T. Collins, 1663.

Wing, D-1453.

WSU MASC copy 1 lacks (i.e. is not bound with) Cabala, sive scrinia sacra.

WSU MASC copies are: 002-117303362, c. 1 ; 002-117303370, c. 2.