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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
for the stage and presse tenderly
to be vsed in this Argument./
Southwell, Parsons and some fewe
other of that sort./
Constable. Henry Constable a rare Gentleman./
Earl Dorsett. Richard Earle of Dorset the
myrrour of Magistrates and in
his Tragedies of Gorboduck./
Earl of Surrey Henry Earle of Surrey and Sir
& Wyatt Thomas Wyatt of old./
Earl of Northampton Henry Earle of Northampton
sonne of that Surrey for some
fewe thinges, a man other=
wise too Exuberant and
wordfull./
Greuile. Grevile Lord Brooke in his
impious Mustapha./
Iohnson Beniamin Iohnson Sir Henry
&
Wotton. Wotton./
Sir Lord Beaumont The learned and truely
noble Sir Iohn Beaumont
Barronet in all his et cetera and late
Dictionaries some publique speaches
some Sermons et cetera./
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