"I doe assure your lordship since Queen Mary's time the papists were never in that jollity they be at present in this country."

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Politicians from EnglandMilitary leaders from EnglandProtestantsChancellors of the University of OxfordPeople of the Elizabethan era
Original Language: English

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From a letter to Lord Burghley (20 October 1579), written at ; BL, Harley MS. 6992, fol. 112r; see also: Edgar I. Fripp, Shakespearean Studies (1930), p. 91