Queen Elizabeth I By J. E. NEALE PREFACE THOUGH In a sense the product of many years study of Elizabethan history this biography has been written for a particular occasion and a particular public. The occasion is the fourth centenary of Queen Elizabeths birth the public is the body of lay men and women interested in a great historical personality. I have therefore removed the elaborate scaffolding of documentary authority used in the construction of the book. Some readers will no doubt regret the absence of references and apparatus criticw. I am conscious that it limits the usefulness of the work in one direction, but hope that it will extend it in another. Elizabeths lifestory is notorious for its bewildering problems. Even among scholars whose judgement,, through long familiarity with the strange, deceptive idiom of sixteenthcentury history, commands respect, there is room for difference of opinion. I can only say that I believe in the solutions adopted in this book. They are honest...

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