A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, Vol. 1: From A. D. 1485 to 1559It is not necessary to follow this investigation further, but the mention of' it was essential as affording the first step in the evidence as to the authenticity and authorship of the Chronicle. There 18 no doubt then as to its being one of those nume1ous City Chronicles which were at this period so often kept by intelligent Londoners for their own satisfaction and the perusal of their friends and descendants, without any ulterior intention 'of publication. In this instance, the ms., which has been preserved amongst the family archives of the noble house of Percy, is not the original but a transcript of' the time of J ames I. Bearing no trace of the author's name, or indication of the time at which he lived. We are couse quently compelled to fall back on internal evidence, and fortunately several incidental allusions made by the author to his own family connections furnish us with the desired information. The most direct and valuable of these is a passage in which he claims relation ship With the great statesman of Henry the Eighth's reign, Lord Chancellor Wriothesley, afterwards, on l6th F ebruary, 1547 created Earl of Southampton: This yeare in Aprill, my cosin Mr. Thomas Wriosley was made the Kinges Secretarie, and Mr. Sadler, of the Privie Chamber, joyned with him, and were booth made knightes also.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.