The Perfect picture of a favourite [electronic resource] : Or, Secret memoirs of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, prime minister and favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and standholder of Holland. Containing an instructive account of his rise and fall; his excessive power and wealth; his cruel oppressions; the exorbitant grants made to him; his ambitious aim at the crown; his lusts, hypocrisie, and irreligion; also his secret combination with the papists and fanaticks, to undermine the Church of England, and exclude the Royal Family. Written during his life, and now publish'd from an old manuscript: with a preface by James Drake; Fellow of the Royal Society and College of Physicians.

Format:

Book

Standardized Title:

Leycester's commonwealth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Great Britain.

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588--Early works to 1800.

Leicester, Robert Dudley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([32],160,163-210,111-118p. )

Edition:

The third edition, corrected.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by James Woodward, in Scaulding-Alley against Stocks-Market; and John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1711.

Notes:

First published in 1584 as 'The copie of a leter, wryten by a master of arte of Cambridge' and republished in 1641 as 'Leycester's common-wealth'; also published in 1706 as 'Secret memoirs of Robert Dudley', and reissued in that year as 'The second edition corrected'; subsequently reissued in 1721 as 'The picture of a favourite: .. The third edition, corrected'.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N20065.

OCLC:

508021417