"Sir, there was never, since England was England, such a stratagem and mask made to deceive England withal as this of the treaty of peace."
— England

January 1, 1970

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Howard of Effingham to Francis Walsingham (27 January 1587), quoted in John Knox Laughton, State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588, Volume I (1894), p. 49