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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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                                                                       15
Sir Iohn Heyward his Henry the            Heyward.
fourth some fewe thinges excepted./
Sir Walter Raleigh                                  Raleigh.
Sir Francis Bacon Lord Viscount           Bacon.
Saint Alban in his Summarie of
King Henry the seauenths life
especially./
King Iames some fewe Scotti=
cismes excepted./
Cardinall Allens Apologie a                   Allen
rare esteemed peece of
English./
   Edmund Spencer (the most                 Spencer.
Learned Poet of our Nation)
very litle for the vse of History./
George Chapmans first seauen               Chapman
bookes of Iliades./
Samuell Danyell./                                   Danyell.
Michaell Drayton his Heroicall              Drayton.
Epistles of England./
Marlowe his Excellent frag=                  Marlowe
ment of Hero & Leander./
Shakespere, Mr Francis Beamont           Shakspeere
and innumerable other writers                Beamont.
                                              for

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. 15r