Secret memoirs of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, prime minister and favourite of Queen Elizabeth : containing an instructive account of his ambition, designs, intrigues, excessive power, his engrossing the Queen, with the dangerous consequence of that practice, &c. / written during his life, and now published from an old manuscript ; with a preface by Dr. Drake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drake, James, 1667-1707.

Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.

Standardized Title:

Leycesters commonwealth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588.

Leicester, Robert Dudley.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Great Britain.

History.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages, 118, that is, 218 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition corrected.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by Ben. Bragg ..., 1706.

Notes:

Reprint of: Leicester's commonwealth, conceived, spoken, and published ... (1641), a revision of The copy of a letter wrytten by a Master of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London ... (1584). Sometimes attributed to Robert Parsons. Cf. Bibliotheca Britannica, v. 1, p. 317a and v. 2, p. 735; DNB, v. 15, p. 418; Halkett & Laing, v. 5, p. 21 and v. 1, p. 433; Wing L968-969A and P569.

Preface signed: J. D. [i.e. James Drake]

Local Notes:

Copy contains notes believed by Fielding's biographer, Prof. Martin C. Battestin, to be in his handwriting. If they are, this copy contains the only Fielding marginalia known to exist. From a letter to the Library by Dr. Frederick G. Ribble of Charlottesville, Va., dated Feb. 4, 1983.

OCLC:

13603402