Makers of History
Queen Elizabeth
BY
JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.
Copyright, 1876, by Jacob Abbott.
Sir Francis Drake.PREFACE.
The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records,to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history,but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from thestrict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentiveexamination of the annals written at the time when the events themselvesoccurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to availhimself of the best sources of information which this country affords;and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in allhistorical accounts, more or less of imperfection and error, there is nointentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minuteand apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed goodhistorical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the recordas the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose anda careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it.