Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Spousells of the Princess Mary, Daughter of Henry VII, to Charles Prince of Castile, 1508
So much for the form of these original documents, and for what concerns the editing. It remains to say a word or two about their substance and historical value. To the modern reader it may perhaps appear that their contents are little more than a ?ourish of trumpets over an ambitious project which led to no result. And it is true the project itself was in a few years set aside. The future of Europe was not actually shaped in accordance with the patient and skilful diplomacy which seemed to be crowned with such brilliant success in December, 1508. But if we are to dismiss from the page of history, as unworthy of serious attention, all the pro jects which have ended in smoke, we shall take pretty nearly the whole life out of the record. The things for which men strove (whether statesmen or common men) deserve, surely, quite as much attention in history as the things which they accomplished.
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