Francis Walsingham, principal secretary and spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I. Secretaire d’Elisabeth. Head of medusa and cock’s heads on plaque. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Stevens van Gunst after Adriaen van der Werff from Isaac de Larrey’s Histoire d’Angleterre, d’Ecosse et d’Irlande, Amsterdam, 1730.

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