Queene Elizabeths speech to her last Parliament
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1201; Early English books online
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1628
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Monopolies; Early works to 1800; Speeches, addresses, etc., English; History
Other titles: Qveene Elizabeths speech to her last Parliament; Queene Elizabeth's speech to her last Parliament
Work titles: Golden Speech
Notes: Signature: A⁴.

Regarding date of publication see Thomas Birch, The court and times of Charles I (1848), I, 378.

A different version was published in 1601 with title "Her Maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe ... on the last day of Nouember 1601"; other versions are preserved in "The journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham" (Camden Miscellany, X (1902)), p. 44-47, and in Sir Simonds D'Ewes's "The journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth" (1682), p. 659-660; a broadside printing of 1659 has title "The golden speech of Queen Elizabeth".

In this form the speech chiefly concerns monopolies.

Known to exist in several states: in one, sig. A3 is unsigned; in another, the "A" in sig. mark "A3" on p. [5] is under the "o" in "knowes"; in another, it is under the "k"; in another, it is under the "y" in "you".

STC (2nd ed.) 7579

English short title catalogue, S122944