Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish 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 & abandonedMen connived at, & encouraged her in herCrimes. I know that it has by many peo--ple been aſserted & beleived that Lord Burleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, & the rest of thosewho filled the cheifOffices's1 of State weredeserving, experienced, & able Ministers.But Oh! how blinded such Writers & suchReaders 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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