2: Camden by HUGH TREVOR-ROPER
Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford
Headmaster of Westminster, Clarenceux King of Arms, William Camden was the most famous English scholar of his day. His Annals of Queen Elizabeth was written as a result of many different pressures, some of these vciy unfavourable to scholarly detachment. But it is a great work of history. It is independent of all the pressures which created it. It made no concessions to anyone. Camden saw the glories of the Elizabethan age not merely in politics but in the total activity of English society.
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