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Subject(s)

• Courts and courtiers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Favorites, Royal—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1532-1590 [Browse]
• Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663 [Browse]

Summary note

eebo-0113

Notes

• Translated into English by Edward Walsingham from a French manuscript copy of the second part of Traité de la cour, ou, Instruction des courtisans. The authorship of this work has generally been attributed to Sir Francis Walsingham, but the original was a French work by Eustache Du Refuge and was first published anonymously in Paris in 1617. Cf. DNB; Brunet.
• Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

References

Wing D2683

Other title(s)

• Arcana aulica.
• Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and the courtier.

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