re: #154 HappyWarrior

Now that seems like interesting reading material.

Some of it is genuinely cool, especially the bits about needed another beer supplier since the stuff they have been getting is substandard. You also have to read between lines, however, since this is the age of Elizabeth, and everything you write can be intercepted, read and used as evidence against you. Diaries simply did not exist. Getting actual unvarnished political opinions is next to impossible unless the person wrote in a cipher and thought it was secure. (Mary of Scots did that a lot. Some of it was intercepted by Lord Burghley or Walsingham, however and decrypted. I really do think in the end that she got a damned rotten deal in her treatment by Elizabeth)