Excerpt from State Papers, Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission, Vol. 1: King Henry the Eighth, Parts 1 and 2 The Commissioners appointed by the preceding Warrants of the late King, and of His present Majesty, deem it right to prefix to this first Volume of the Papers which they have been commanded to examine and publish, a brief account of the Collection, from whence they are principally drawn, and of the circumstances, in which they are published. It is obvious that, as soon as the barbarous ages ...
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Excerpt from State Papers, Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission, Vol. 1: King Henry the Eighth, Parts 1 and 2 The Commissioners appointed by the preceding Warrants of the late King, and of His present Majesty, deem it right to prefix to this first Volume of the Papers which they have been commanded to examine and publish, a brief account of the Collection, from whence they are principally drawn, and of the circumstances, in which they are published. It is obvious that, as soon as the barbarous ages had passed away, and the intercourse of nations began to be carried on by other instru ments than the sword, the Monarch must have had some civil servant to convey his commands. In the earliest ages of civilized Europe, this servant was the Chancellor, who drew up the commands Of his Sovereign in a formal manner, and authenticated them with his Master's Seal, of which he was the Keeper. Notwithstanding the endless diversities of national institutions, a remarkable resemblance is to be observed in these formal diplomatic instruments; a resem blance, referable, no doubt, to this circumstance, that for the learning, requisite to the preparation of such documents, recourse was, of necessity, had to the Priesthood. As civilization proceeded, a further necessity arose, for the Monarch to convey his instructions, in a less formal manner, to his Representatives at Foreign Courts, and to his Lieutenants in the more distant parts of his own dominions. For this purpose, he had recourse to an Officer, who, in England, as well as in most of the continental States, obtained the appellation of the King's Principal Secretary, or Secretary Of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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