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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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Moore.                            Sir Thomas Moores workes some
                                        fewe outworne or antiquated
                                        wordes excepted./
Sidney                               The Arcadia of Sir Phillip
                                       Sidney is worthiely most famous
                                       for with corceipt, and splendor
                                       of Courtly expressions which
                                       are not to be vsed by any Historian
                                       but very rarely and with great
                                       Iudgement, as one whose  style
                                       should haue glosse, and Lustre,
                                       but otherwise soliditie, and
                                       fluencie rather then odd no
                                       =tions, full of affected newnes
                                       proper to Oratours and Poets./
                                       Queene Elizabeth.
Sauile.                            Sir Henry Savile his end of
                                       Nero and begining of Galba./
Earl of Essex                 Robert Earle of Essex his Apologie
                                       and letters to Roger Earle of
                                       Rutland./
Hooker                           Mr Hooker his preface to his
                                       booke of Ecclesiasticall Pollicy./

                                                                                 Sir

Item 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,[...]
Item Date
ca. 1616
Repository
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call Number
MS Rawl. D. 1, fol. 14v