Copy of A device to entertain the Queen, November 17, 1595 [manuscript], ca. 1600.

Device to entertain the Queen

1-13, 1-11 p.

Speeches for a squire, hermit, soldier, and secretary, written by Bacon for the Earl of Essex's entertainment of the Queen on the anniversary of her accession. Also, speeches in Parliament, etc. by Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1559, in a different hand from the first part of manuscript. These speeches are the first four and the 12th and 13th speeches contained in Folger MS V.a.143, a volume of Sir Nicholas Bacon's speeches.

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See Spedding, Bacon's letters and life, vol. I, p. 374-391.
Elizabeth I : then and now / compiled and edited by Georgianna Ziegler. Washington, DC : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2003, p. 151-152, 154.

Formerly Folger MS 7036.

Exhibited: Elizabeth I, Then and Now, curated by Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., March 21-August 2, 2003.

Great Britain -- England.

V.b.213

7036