The History of the Life Reign and Death of Queen Elizabeth, Title page – To the reader
THE HISTORY OF THE GLORIOUS Life, Reign, and Death Of the ILLUSTRIOUS Queen ELIZABETH.
CONTAINING
An Account by what means the Reformation was promoted and established, and what Obstructions it met with: the Assistance she gave to all Protestants abroad; the several Attempts of the Papists upon her Life; the Excommunications of Rome; Bishop Jewel's Challenge to the Papists; the several Victories she gained; and more particularly that in 1588; with all the other Remarkable Occurrences of that time.
By S. CLARK.
Illustrated with Pictures of some considerable matters, curiously ingraven in Copper Plates.
London, Printed for Henry Rodes, next door to the Bear Tavern, near Bride Lane, in Fleet-street. 1682.
TO THE READER.
Reader,
I Here present thee with the Glorious Life and Reign of the ever Renowned Queen Elizabeth; a Piece as full of various Occurrences and Transactions, as can well be comprehended in so small a Volume. Thou hast here an Account of the many Persecutions she suffered both under the Reign of her Father, and that of her Sister, from her Mortal Enemies, the Blood-thirsty Papists; and how, after that, it had pleased God to shield her from all their Execrable Designs and Attempts. Being placed upon the Throne of her Ancestors, she introduced the Reformed Religion, regulating it according to the Word of God, the General Consent of the Fathers, the Practice of the Primitive Times, and the Example of such Churches as were freest from Superstition and Idolatry. Here is likewise a Relation of the several Commotions in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and by what means raised and suppressed. Thou art here also entertained with a Faithful Narrative of the Supplies she gave to those of the Reformed Religion abroad, and the Courses she took to defend and promote Protestantism in the Dominions of her Neighbours; The whole Affair of the Queen of Scots is herein couched; the several Conspiracies of the Papists against her Life during her Reign, inserted, and the utter Defeat of the, so called, Invincible Armado in Eighty Eight, represented; with all her other Victories, both over the French and Spaniard; and an Account of the Veneration and Respect that the Great Turk himself, and the most barbarous Princes of that time, had for this Illustrious Queen; with all the other material Circumstances of her Victorious Life and Reign: wherein, if thou meetest with that Satisfaction I desire thee, I shall think my Endeavours well bestowed.
S. CLARK.