The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the united Provinces of the Lowe Countreys
Subtitle: written before, but delivered at his returne from thence : with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two severall times, from all the Lordes and Commons lately assembled in Parliament : and her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe delivered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were uttered by her Maiestie
Contributors: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603; Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588; Crompton, Richard, active 1573-1599; Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599, printer
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 212
Publisher: By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Reformation; Biography; Politics and government
Notes: Signatures: A-E⁴.

The last leaf is blank.

Pages 5-33 misnumbered 4-32.

Royal arms (Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714, 6) on verso of A1 and (Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714, 7) on verso of E3.

The letter comes in two versions; A3r, text starts (1) "Albeit with earnest ... I have alwayes" or (2) "Albeit the earnest ... hath alwayes".

The letter to the Earl of Leicester is signed "R.C." on p. 3; "R.C.", wrongly attributed to Richard Crompton, stands for Robert Cecil -- Cf. Elizabethan government and society / edited by S.T. Bindoff et al. London, 1961. P. 43.

Regarding the proposed execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

STC (2nd ed.) 6052