Excerpt from The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt. D. C. L. Principal Secretary of State to King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth: Wherein Are Discovered Many Singular Matters Relating to the State of Learning, the Reformation of Religion, and the Transactions of the Kingdom, During His Time, in All Which He Had a Great and Influence But it is impossible to recover all. What I have collected together in these papers from various and sundry books, and original writings, are sufficient to give a fair, though not a full account of him. And that which I value my present undertaking for is, that I have done it impartially: for it is not of the nature of a rhetorical panegyric, wherein more care is taken to praise than to speak truth. To which last I have had a very tender regard; being borne out in every thing I have writ by the authority of indubitable monuments; that is, either of Smith's own letters, books, and papers, or of others his friends and contemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.