Author: Sawyer, Edmund.
Title: MEMORIALS OF AFFAIRS OF STATE in the reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) from the original papers of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood, Kt. Sometime one of the Principal Secretaries of State. Comprehending likewise the negotiations of Sir Henry Neville, Sir Charles Cornwallis, Sir Dudley Carleton, Sir Thomas Edmondes, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Cottington and others, At the courts of France and Spain, and in Holland, Venice, &c. Wherein the Principal Transactions of those Times Are faithfully related, and the Policies and Intrigues of those Courts at large discover'd. The whole digested in an exact Series of Time. To which are added Two Tables: One of the Letters, the other of the Principal Matters.
Description: London : printed by W. B. for T. Ward, in the Inner-Temple-Lane, 1725. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Folio. 34.5 x 22cm. Engraved port. frontis. by George Vertue from the painting by Van Miereveldt, decorative device to title pages of volumes 2 & 3, decorative initial letters and head and tail pieces. Upto pp.180 with sm. wormhole to gutter margin, marbled e.ps. and browned blanks showing signs of wear with one blank detached, ex.-libris Shirley of Ettington, age toning, contemporary speckled calf with double gilt rule to borders, some surface wear and marking, joints cracked in part, gilt tooled spines with gilt lettered labels and with loss to head and tail. ¶ Read 832; Davies/Keller 671. Lowndes 2955; ESTC No T149866 ‘With an index and a list of subscribers. Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 650 copies printed on crown, 150 on royal, and 6 on superfine royal.’ Edmund Sawyer (b. after 1687, d. 1759), lawyer. ‘... Sawyer compiled the valuable Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James (1725), a work which was chiefly derived from the papers of Sir Ralph Winwood and Sir Henry Neville ...’ The title is misleading as the letters begin in 1590 and end in 1614 before Winwood became Secretary of State. The collection ‘consists chiefly of correspondence of Winwood and Sir Henry Neville from France. A few papers on Spanish and Dutch affairs. Invaluable for Anglo-French relations between 1599-1603’ Read. And ‘Important for 1603-1614’ Davies.

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