THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE PRESENT TIME.

A New Edition,

RE-ARRANGED, AND ENRICHED WITH SEVERAL

ADDITIONAL LIVES,

BY THE

REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, LUDGATE street; AND FOR
BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER ROW.

C. Baldwin, Printer, New Bridge-street, London.

Lowe

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

XX. Sir Philip Sidney .. (1554-1586)

XXI. Robert Dudley, Earl

of Leicester.... (1532-1588) 72

XXII. Sir Francis Walsing-

ham

(1536-1590) 104

XXIII. Sir Francis Drake .(1545-1596) 122

XXIV. Sir John Hawkins.. (1520–1598) 138

XXV. Edmund Spenser... (1553-1598) 155

XXVI. William Cecil, Lord

(1520-1598) 177

Burghley

XXVII. Robert Devereux,

Earl of Essex (1567-1601) 215

XXVIII. Charles Howard, Earl

of Nottingham.. (1536-1603) 247

XXIX. Thomas Sackville, Earl

of Dorset

(1536-1608) 259

XXX. Sir Robert Cecil, Earl

of Salisbury (1550-1612) 277

XXXI. William Shakspeare. (1564-1616) 296

XXXII. Sir Walter Ralegh. (1552—1618) 322

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XXXIII. William Camden .(1551-1623) 403

XXXIV. Francis Bacon, Vis-

count St. Alban's. (1561-1626) 430

XXXV. George Villiers I.,

Duke of Bucking-

ham

(1592-1628) 492

XXXVI. George Abbot......(1562-1633) 519

XXXVII. Sir Edward Coke.. (1550-1634) 543

XXXVIII. Ben Jonson

(1574-1637) 575

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