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England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
A queen, political strategist, and occasional writer, she ruled England and Ireland through one of the most dramatic periods in Tudor history. The proclamations and official texts published under her name reflect a reign that helped shape the Elizabethan age.
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A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie
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About the author
Best known as Elizabeth I, this author was the queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. Born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she came to the throne after the short reigns of her half-brother Edward VI and half-sister Mary I.
Her long rule is remembered for political caution, religious settlement, and the growth of English power and culture. It was during her reign that England faced the Spanish Armada in 1588, while literature and drama flourished in the age later named for her.
In library records, works under "England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603: Elizabeth I)" are usually royal proclamations, injunctions, letters, and other state documents issued in her name. Read as historical texts, they offer a direct glimpse into how authority, religion, and government were expressed in late 16th-century England.