ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH HISTORY; INCLUDING NUMEROUS ROYAL LETTERS: FROM AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND ONE OR TWO OTHER COLLECTIONS. WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY ELLIS, F.R.S. SEC. S.A. KEEPER OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. LONDON, PRINTED FOR HARDING, TRIPHOOK, AND LEPARD. MDCCCXXV. ΤΟ HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. SIRE, I MOST humbly lay at YOUR MAJESTY'S feet these Volumes illustrative of ENGLISH HISTORY. They contain numerous Letters written by YOUR MAJESTY'S Royal Ancestors: and the larger portion of them come from that Repository which YOUR MAJESTY has been graciously pleased to enlarge and enrich with the Donation of the Library collected by YOUR MAJESTY'S REVERED FATHER: a Gift, greater than has been bestowed by any Sovereign upon any Nation since the Library of the PTOLEMIES was founded at Alexandria. That YOUR MAJESTY may long live to witness the Advantages accruing to the Learned and the Good from such accumulation of LITERARY TREASURE, is the earnest and the constant Prayer of SIRE, YOUR MAJESTY'S MOST LOYAL AND DEVOTED SUBJECT AND SERVANT, HENRY ELLIS. |