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Show Ue G0) T. £ ae 3 NS8 ‘ Ai) {Ti Alivotn Bee Fala atdnus » 5 eed ( Cote OR Seblod ven Wilf oo) Bia ationt a " Hehe, * norablefin lente Sidite: t " ‘Jorddeputie generall ofIreland;lord ‘prefident " rt of Wales, knight ofthe moftnobleorder ofthe garter, and a. one ofbig maieltiespriute councell within hir sida pealee ofEagles oj orl Montoiun > 232245 ; wi pr bh is | Aking in hand (right honorable) to gatherthe particular hiftories of diuerfe | countries and nations, to ioine with a cofmographie,whichone Reginald Wolfe late _printer to the queenes maieftie meant to publifh in our Englifh toong:whenI came to confider ofthe hiftories of Ireland, I found ) myfelf{o vnprouidedof helps,to fet downe | anie particular difcourfe therof,that I wasin defpaireto ente1 prife to write ante thing at 4) all concerning that realme, otherwife than || incidentlie as fell to purpofe to touchthe fame inthe hiftorie of England . At length yetas maifter Wolfes vfe was, toimpart to meall fuch helps as he mightat anie handprocurefor myfurtherance, in the collections ofthe other hiftories, wherewith] {peciallie dealt; his hap was tolight alfoypon a copie of two bookes ofthe Irithhiftories, compiled by one Edmund Campion,fellow fometime ofS$, Iohn Baptifts college in Oxford,verie well penned certeinlie,but fo breefe, as it were to be wifhed,that occafion had feruedhim to haue vfedmoreleafure, and thereby to haue deliuered to vs alarger difcourfe ofthe famcehiftories : for as he himfelfe confeffeth,he had not paft ten weekes {paceto gather his matter : a verie {hort time doubtleffe for fucha peece of worke. Buthowbreefe fo euer J found him,at the perfuafion of maifter Wolfe , vpon the hauing of that copie, [refolued ro make {hiftto frame a fpeciall hiftorie ofIreland, in hke maner asI had doone of other regions,following Campions order, and fetting downe his owne words, ¢xhe Cceptin places w here] had matter to inlarge that ( outof otherauthors) which had writtenin breefe, Andthis haue thought good to fignifie , the rather for thatl efteeme it gooddealing innow ife to defraud himof his due deferuedpraife. Butnowafter] had continuedthe hiftoric,and inlarged it outofG iraldus Cam- brenfis,Flatsburie,Henric of Marleburgh,and other,till the yeare 1509, in which thar f; nous prince Henrie the cight began his reigne; {ome ofthofe that were to beftowthe charges ofthe impreflion, procured a learned gentleman maifter Richard Stanihurft,to continue it from thenfe forward as he fawoccalion,being furnithed with matter to inlarge the worke,whereoffor thofe Jatter times I found my tterlie void, more thanthat which Campion had deliuered . What I haue A.2. doone |