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Title: Notes of advice for writers of English history, being a "Second or finall Addresse" in fourteen paragraphs or sections; containing notes on the several periods into which the history may be divided, the methods in which it may be treated, the authors to be read for formation of style, the dangers to be avoided, and, finally, some short criticisms on a few English historians.
Date: ca. 1616
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS Rawl. D. 1, fols. 11r-v, 13v-15v
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entire ..... body of them, ought
to haue a singuler Care therof:
for albeit our tongue hath not
receiued Dialects or accentuall
notes as the Greek nor any
certaine or established rule either
of Gramer or true writing, is
notwithstanding very Ioyious,
and fewe there be who haue the
most proper graces thereof;
for which the rule cannot be
variable, ffor asmuch as the
peoples Iudgmentes are vn=
certaine, The bookes also
out of which wee gather the
most warrantable English
are not many to my Remem=
brance, of which in regard
they require a particuler and
Curious tract, I forbeare to
speake at this present . Butt
among the choise, or rather
the choise are in my opinion
these./
Sir Thomas
