Excerpt from General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Vol. 4France, on the death of the king her hutband, and with thefe, as Buchanan relates, Ricci ingratiated himfelf by (inging and playing among them, till he was taken notice of by the queen, foon after which he was retained in her fervice as a finger. From this fiation, by'means of ¿attery and the moft abjeét arts of infinuation. He tofe to the higheft degree of favour and confidence, and being appointed her fecretary for French affairs, bec'ame abforbed in the intrigues of the court, in the management whereof he behaved with foch arro gance and contempt, even of his fuperiors, as rendered him odious to all about him The reft of his hifiory is well known he grew rich, and his infolence drawing on him the hatred of the Scottith no bility, he was on the ninth day of March, in the year 1566, drag ged from the prefence of the queen into an outer chamber of the pa lace, and there (lain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.