Paul Hentzner, a German lawyer touring Europe with a young nobleman, visited England in 1598 and recorded London, its palaces, customs and sights, and a famous glimpse of Queen Elizabeth herself. The volume adds Sir Robert Naunton’s Fragmenta Regalia, a courtier’s sketches of the queen and her favourites, Leicester and Sussex among them.
Two short eyewitness sources that bring Elizabethan England vividly to life. Download the free EPUB.