Copy 1, Volume 1

Annals of the first four years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth / By Sir John Hayward. Ed. from a MS. in the Harleian Collection, by John Bruce.

  • John Hayward
Date:
1840
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annals of the first four years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth / By Sir John Hayward. Ed. from a MS. in the Harleian Collection, by John Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘circumstances out of which it arose—circumstances which afford a glance at our author's position in so- ciety in 1605, when they occurred, although the work was not published until 1624. ‘ During the time of the Parliament held in 1605, I dined,’ Hayward says, “at the House of the most reverend Thobie Mathew, then Bishop of Durham, since Archbishop of York: a man of eminent esteem both for industry and abilitie in his pro- fession, equall both for sharpnes of understanding and for sweetnesse, both in conversation and in speech: whose table beimg much frequented by persons for different qualities well reputed, and their speeches both excited and maintained by him, had commonly the great variety of dishes answered by like varietie of discourse. “The first part of the dinner was passed over in sad and sober silence ... . at the last, silence was broken, and some speeches spent in matters of conceit. In which veine one of the company tooke often occasion to speake of a ‘terrible blow, alluding to the same words in that letter whereby the late practise against His Majesty and the whole body of the state was beaten out and brought into light. “ Hereupon a Gentleman somewhat more severe by *[longe] exercising the office of Justice in his country,” * The words within brackets are derived from an interleaved copy of this work in the British Museum, which contains those and various
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