Mirror for Magistrates. T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. Mirror for Magistrates. EDITED BY JOSEPH HASLEWOOD. [Illustration] VOLUME I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. FINSBURY SQUARE; AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1815. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mirror for Magistrates, IN FIVE PARTS. _VOLUME THE FIRST_, CONTAINING PART I. BY JOHN HIGGINS. PART II. BY THOMAS BLENER-HASSET. COLLATED WITH VARIOUS EDITIONS, AND HISTORICAL NOTES, &c. BY JOSEPH HASLEWOOD. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. FINSBURY SQUARE; AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1815. ------------------------------------------------------------------ TO FRANCIS DOUCE, ESQ. _THIS EDITION_ OF THE Mirror for Magistrates: A POPULAR PRODUCTION OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH WHICH MERITED REVIVAL, _IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED_, BY HIS OBEDIENT AND OBLIGED SERVANT, JOSEPH HASLEWOOD. --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Illustration] INTRODUCTION. Although the prevailing taste for Bibliography has already drawn forth copious accounts of the various editions of the MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES, and the industry of preceding Biographers has left little new to say of its authors, yet an entire Reprint of this once celebrated work requires the accompaniment of an Introductory Account of these subjects, even at the hazard of repeating a great deal that has been lately told, unmixed with much that is novel.