The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

Mr. Harding had a great Quarrel against it, because it was not inscribed neither to the Pope nor to the Council. But there being no reason to make them our Judges, and they having no right to claim that Authority over us, it had been a great oversight to have made any such Inscription, which would have been a kind of making them what they had neither right nor reason to expect to be, and from whom we could expect no Justice.

The Natives had without doubt a great desire to see what was in this Book which then made so great a noise in the World; and the Learned Men being then otherwise employed, a Lady who was one of the most Learned of the Age, undertook that task, and made a very Faithful and perhaps Elegant Version of it for the time when it was made.

The Natives had without doubt a great desire to see what was in this Book which then made so great a noise in the World; and the Learned Men being then otherwise imployed, a Lady who was one of the most Learned of the Age, undertook that task, and made a very Faithful and perhaps Elegant Version of it for the time when it was made.

She was then Wife to Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, second Daughter to Sir Anthony Cooke Knight, one of the Tutors to King Edward the Sixth, who being an excellent Scholar, had taken care to improve his Five Daughters so much in Learning,¹ that they became the Wonders of the Age, and were sought in Marriage by great Men more for their natural and acquired Endowments and Beauty, than for their Portions, tho they did not want that neither. Mildred the eldest married William Cecil Lord Treasurer of England; Anne the second was this Lady Bacon; Katherine ⟨image 6⟩