Volume the Second: Diplomatic Display London British Library, Add. MS. 59874
It was the peculiar Misfortune ofthis Woman to have bad Ministers Since wicked as she herself was, she couldnot have committed such extensive Mis==cheif, had not these vile & abandoned Men connived at, & encouraged her in her Crimes. I know that it has by many peo--ple been aſserted & beleived that Lord Burleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, & the rest of thosewho filled the cheif Offices's1 of State weredeserving, experienced, & able Ministers.But Oh! how blinded such Writers & such Readers must be to true Merit, to Merit despised, neglected & defamed, if they can persist in such opinions when they reflectthat these Men, these boasted Men were
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