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London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
by Stephen Alford.
Allen Lane, 316 pp., £20, April 2017,978 0 241 00358 9 Show More
by Stephen Alford.
Allen Lane, 316 pp., £20, April 2017,
“... place behind the scenes to defend England and promote its interests. Researching his biography of Elizabeth I’s chief adviser Lord Burghley, Stephen Alford discovered a scribbled memo from 1562, written while the queen lay dangerously ill with smallpox, ordering the privy council to appoint a successor in the event of her death. ... ”