The girlhood of Queen Elizabeth, a narrative in contemporary letters . dout on as I now shall be, yea and without cause ; letconscience move your Highness to take some betterway with me than to make me be condemned in allmens sight afore my known desert. Also I mosthumbly beseech your Highness to pardon this myboldness, which my innocency procures me to do,together with hope of your natural kindness, which Itrust will not see me cast away without desert, whichwhat it is I would desire no more of God but thatyou truly knew. Which thing I think and believeyou shall never by report know, unless b
The girlhood of Queen Elizabeth, a narrative in contemporary letters . dout on as I now shall be, yea and without cause ; letconscience move your Highness to take some betterway with me than to make me be condemned in allmens sight afore my known desert. Also I mosthumbly beseech your Highness to pardon this myboldness, which my innocency procures me to do,together with hope of your natural kindness, which Itrust will not see me cast away without desert, whichwhat it is I would desire no more of God but thatyou truly knew. Which thing I think and believeyou shall never by report know, unless by yourselfyou hear. I have heard in my time of many castaway, for want of coming to the presence of theirprince ; and in late days I heard my Lord of Somersetsay that if his brother had been suffered to speakwith him he had never suffered, but persuasions weremade to him so great that he was brought in beliefthat he could not live safely if the admiral lived ; andthat made him give his consent to his death. Thoughthese persons are not to be compared to your Majesty,. n hHKHbK crt^Hc mt only on^ Wor^Urbf fir\lwtr froyour fclfc \ w. fftiv-OKI- liiil try tL ^Yim tLt n kmp^s Worrit w«s moWthn Hf mHf^ J .t ««^r yo>,,y^ 2^t£h .^c thc^tf. i ^^ow. ^ kcrn^ - «»*. J^^ - f;^! ^ft re.{.u Jc. L ,f . ;^^-i^p-\e;;VT;;# £ic Met cop/cmncn rtifnto oc V«fo . innmtfimi L ^ ?\tUo^JP.^i^ojUprckir ftnn .„oWc ^«Ic. |>/^ --. y r ,^^„,^ ly til ? ? - - ? -/^wrlfffi W Facsimile of the lettei Elizabeth to Mary I on being ordered tn the Tower o r>irjr cRw;- ^^y^^ 7 jy ^f^^tj>c4ie^ nm not if^i^neWe not ^yjaffe Wtoj}- cfere ((Sj^knoWif( as Joy hke trnitov^,vVi(^t kt nMhft pfirnyitnfm Wfff rom firm f1» f^tc (H /cfMv buf- on wy_^ newfr rec^efi any f)s foy f-f>^ ^^<^ of tfiy Tthnx fcfit- iv th^ fr?tf)e (tl(f if CK(r jrf fi*^^ F ^\^
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