Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men Author:Henry Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " or attributed unto him: Yea (good, and gracious King) If any one, of all the great "number, of the very strange and frivolous fables, or histories reported and... more » told of " him (as to have beene of his doing) were True : as they have beene told, or reason- " ably caused any wondring among or to, the many headed Multitude, or to any other, " whosoever, els." And, then, your Highnesse said Suppliant, (upon his said Justi- cation and Clearing, made herein,) will conceyve great and undoubted hope, that your Majestie will, soone after, more willingly have Princely regard of redressing of your Highnesse said Suppliant his farder griefes, and hinderances ; no longer of him possibly to be endured : so long hath his utter undoing, by little and little, beene most unjustly compassed. The almightie and most mercifull God always direct your Majesties royal heart, in his wayes of Justice and Mercy, as is to him most acceptable; and make your Majestie to be the most blessed and Triumphant Monarch, that ever this Brytish Empire enjoyed. Amen. XVII. Sir Thomas Heneage to Lord Burghley,from the Court, 14th May, 1590. The Queen commands the Suppression of Sir John Smythe's " Discourses on the forms and effects of divers sorts of Weapons." [Lansd. MS. 64. art. 43. Oriy.] My Lord, " Her Majesty hath even now told me that Sir John Smith hath lately sette forthe a Booke in printe, of the dyscourses of the use of sundry weapons, in which (as her Majesty telleth me) he tocheth dyvers persons in a sorte so, as Her Highness dowteth that yt may breed discredyt to dyvers of great quarrell. And therfore Her Majestie hath commanded me to wryte to your Lordship that you should give present order that those bookes wear called in, both bycause they be printed without privileage, and that they may b...« less