The compleat ambassador: or Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France. Together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of state, not at all mentioned in any history. Faithfully collected by the truly honourable, Sir Dudly Digges Knight, late master of th Rolls.
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London: printed by Tho: Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1655.
- Publication year
- 1655-1655
- ESTC No.
- R22010
- Grub Street ID
- 94552
- Description
- [16], 232, 231-414, 419-434, 439-441, [7] p. : ill. ; 2⁰
- Note
- Editor's preface signed: A.H.
Includes index.
Text continuous despite pagination.
With additional engraved title page (pi1v).
- Uncontrolled note
- DFONOTE blg leaves 3H1 (although correctly signed) and 3H4 are actually duplicates of 3G1 and 3G4, so that text is discontinuous ; text is also discontinuous from 2B4v-2C1r ; includes final blank (c)4, so pag. stmt. should end: <...> 439-441, [9] p. ; engr. add'l. t.p. signed "Gu: Faythorne sculp:"; t.p. printed in red and black