ANNALS

OF THE

CHURCH and STATE

Under the REIGN of

Queen Elizabeth.

Being a CONTINUATION of

The ANNALS of the CHURCH of England,
and of the RELIGION there Established.

TOGETHER

With many Affairs of STATE occurring within the last Twelve
Years of that QUEEN'S Government, unto the Accefs of JAMES King of
Scotland, her immediate Succeffor, and fome few Years after his Entrance.

Confifting of a large COLLECTION of

Original and Authentic Records, Papers, and Letters of State,
Correfpondences of Princes, Noblemen, Bishops, and other Perfons of Quality
in the Univerfities or elsewhere; Information from Ambaffadors, Foreigners,
Spies, Jefuits, and others from Abroad.

Which Manuscript Papers, digefted from Year to Year, as Matters
fell out, will give a great Light, and communicate more Knowledge of the
faid Remaining Years of that Reign, than the World hath been acquainted
with before.

TOGETHER

With many short Additions, interspersed in divers Places for the
Explaining and better Understanding of various Matters in those Papers, more
obfcure, occurring.

And to which is added,

A SUPPLEMENT of feveral RECORDS
Suiting with the Years of the former Volumes.

By JOHN STRYPE, M. A

VOL. IV.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON,

Printed for EDWARD SYMON, against the Royal-Exchange in Cornbill.
M DCC XXXVIII.

THE

PREFACE.

M

Y Store of Authentic Papers, tranfcribed by me from the Originals,are fufficient to furnish me with Matter to carry on my ANNALS to the End of Queen ELIZABETH'S REIGN in the fame Method with the former Volumes, and to be digefted into a juft and methodical Hiftory; a Thing which many of my Learned Friends and Readers have defired to fee. But my great Age and Infirmities accompanying it, require me to forbear. And yet that thofe Papers might not be quite loft, or remain in Obfcurity and of no Ufe, I have at laft, in Intervals of better Health, prepared a great Number of the most important and useful of them, as I took them by my own Pen at first from the Originals, and have now digefted them into a Courfe of Hiftorical Matters, fucceeding Year by Year, as they fell out. By which Means a Knowledge of the Affairs both of the Church and State may be attained, until the Accefs of King JAMES to the Kingdom, and fome Tears after. Wherein will be difcovered divers remarkable Occurrences during the latter Part A 2

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