In the opinion of the late Sir William Foster, through many years historiographer of the India Office, this was a chief reason for the interest Sir Thomas Smith took in Virginia.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Thus a grave historiographer by way of speaking comfortably on this score, assures us that the volume "speedily sunk into obscurity," becoming one of the rarest of the books illustrative of our ecclesiastical annals.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
The proof that the historiographer Royal contributed to the anti-Whig propaganda of the spring of 1681 depends partly on contemporary or near-contemporary statements but principally on internal evidence.
"His Majesties Declaration Defended"
John Dryden