Excerpt from Rutland Papers: Original Documents, Illustrative of the Courts and Times of Henry VII. And Henry VIII., Selected From the Private Archives of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, &C. &C. &CThus the account of the Field of the Cloth of Gold is an excellent illustration of Shakspere's description of that gay scene in Henry VIII. Act 1. Sc. And at the same time affords negative proof that the Poet was not historically correct, in putting it into the mouth of the Duke of Norfolk, who was not among the King's followers there, as the Dukes of Suffolk and Buckingham were. His Grace's name, on the contrary, is not in the list; and he was, in fact, as there are original letters to showfi the President, or Chief of the Council, left to govern England during the absence of the monarch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
