THE HISTORY Of the most Renowned QUEEN ELIZABETH And her great Favourite THE EARL OF ESSEX.
Reading edition
ELIZABETHA REGINA
Newcastle: Printed by J. White.
More than half this book is taken up with an elaborate confession by Elizabeth, to the Countess of Nottingham, of her love for the unfortunate Earl of Essex; and, historically speaking, it has many blunders, such as making him privately marry the Countess of Rutland, instead of Sir Philip Sidney's widow, etc. It is mainly taken from "The Secret History of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. By a Person of Quality London 1695;" and, like that book, was sometimes published in two parts.