Excerpt from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Vol. 1 of 2 In the literature of our country, however copious, the eye of the curious student may still detect important deficiencies. We possess, for example, many and excellent histories, embracing every period of our domestic annals; - biographies, general and particular, which appear to have placed on record the name of every private individual justly entitled to such commemoration; - and numerous and extensive collections of original letters, state-papers and other historical and antiquarian documents; - whilst our comparative penury is remarkable in royal lives, in court histories, and especially in that class which forms the glory of French literature, - memoir. 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.