It was the peculiar Misfortune ofthis Woman to have bad Ministers  Since wicked as she herself was, she couldnot have committed such extensive Mis==cheif, had not these vile & abandoned Men connived at, & encouraged her in her Crimes. I know that it has by many peo--ple been aſserted & beleived that Lord Burleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, & the rest of thosewho filled the cheif Offices's¹ of State weredeserving, experienced, & able Ministers.But Oh! how blinded such Writers & such Readers must be to true Merit, to Merit despised, neglected & defamed, if they can persist in such opinions when they reflectthat these Men, these boasted Men were