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Rh in the Managing of Affairs: being wholly then addicted to employ my self, and all my Cares, in the publick Service of the State. My Resolution fully taken, I departed out of England, Anno 1576, and continued very near four Years abroad: and that in sundry Parts of Italy, France and Germany. A good while after my return, to wit, in the Year 1585, I was employed by the Queen, to Frederick, Father to the present King of Denmark, to Julius Duke of Brunswick, to William Landgrave of Hesse, and other German Princes. The effect of my Message was, to draw them to joyn their Forces with hers, for giving Assistance to the King