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Show . : Of thP. ~~~ .. ,..... . .:: ' ' ' I . ~ • ~ _ ·: __., ..,.,.,,cement oflettrnmg . '" .. & • ' • . aalfy wit that application, which hee accou. ~~th it \vitnal,A.N N A L S,a~d 'l () V H. N A L S, , ; ppro priati n g to the fonner' Matters of eftate, and . to the later) Aets ' .and Accidents of a. meaner~ a .. wre: For giuing bLit a,touJZh of certa~n~ Mag~tficent Build1ngs,he addetl1,CMIJ ex d~gntt41e fQPN!t Ro~ ' mani reperturn fit ' res ilf~jlres il/11114/!biN '· tatta dturnu / -vrhis AUis ttJandare. So as there 1s a ktnde of con· templariue -Heraldry,as well as Ci~ill~ .And as no~ -'dli.ng doth derogate from the dt~Ol~le of a fiate more then confufion of degrees : So 1~ doth.not a littie imbafe the Authoritieof an Hifior1e, to Inter· · miAgle matters of triumph; Qr matters of cere mo .. RY, or mat~ers of N oueltie, with matters ofState; But the vfe of a I o v R N A L L ·hath not onely. been in the Hifiorie-o£ Time, but like wife in the Hifioric ofPerfos,and chiefcly ofattions; for Pl'incesin ~~ .. cient time had vpon point of honour and pohcte both, Iournalls kept, what palfed day by day: for 'vc {e~ the Chronicle \Vhich \vas red before Ah4/fo· erus when he could oot takerefi, -conrained matter of aftaires indeedc,but fuch a~ had F,fafred in his OWft time;ana very lately before; But the I o v R N _A 1 t of 11/exanders houf~ expre[ed euery fmall parttcul~-. ritie ttuenconcernino his Perf on and Court: and tt · · is ye,t an vfe wei recei~ed in en~rprifes memora?le, 1 ' ase~peditionsofWarre,N~~igati~ns;and ~hehke, to keepe DJ4ries of that wh1cb pa!Ieth conuoually. · I cannot likewife bee ignorant of a (or me of Writing, which Come graue and wife me_n haue vfed, ' -:,.... "' I , . . :The{eco1~d booke. . t5 · v(ed,containing a fcanered Hifiory of [hofe a.ttio~~, Wht·~n t•lt"'V haue thouoht t•u,,.,.t ...... ,, £ ..- n"""'"rt.n '~'trh . ~~ • _ J t:) ,.,,!• ,.,, V& I.I.J'!&.l.ava••J•• •--- poJitiqUe d~fcourfe and ubfcruation there~upon;nbt i~corporate iQto rhe Hiftory, but frperately ,and as-- , t.he more principal! in their intenti6: Which kind o·f , R v M 1 NAT n n H ·x s -r o It Y., I thinke 1nore fit to piac.eamongft Bookes of poHcie, wbereC?f \Ve fha.ll 11ereafter fpeak~, then among.A: ~ookes o.fHifiory: . for it,is thetrueofficeof Hifioryto reprefent thee. uents themfelues, together with the counfel~,. and to leaue the obleruations,and conclulions thercu pqn, tQ the liberry .and facultie of t>uery mans iudge~ ment: But Mixtures, are things irregular, whereof no man can define. . , · . S'o a!fo is there an?ther kinde olHiltory mani .. foldlymtxt, and that .IsH 1 s -ron. y of Co s M o• ~ R A P a Y ,being co.mpoundcd ofNaturalJ Hifiory 1~ rcfpedofthe ~Regions ~het_nfelues, ofHifiory ciudl, 1n refp~dofth,e Habnauons, Regiments,and· . Manners of the people; and the <..MAthem4tiqites in· -refpeel of the Clim1ts, and configut;ations towards · the Heauens,- wbich part of learning of all others in this latter time hath obtaine,{:tnofi Proficience.For irmay be tr.uly affirmed to the ho · or of rhefe ritn~s . d . ) · ~~ 1n a vert~o?s emulation ·\vith Aniiquitie, that ·thts gteat Budd1ng of the \vorld, had neuer thro•e.h lights made in it ,' till the age of .vs and ourfathe~s: . :Poraltbou~h ~hey had.kn.o~leJg~of.rhe Antip,des: · . N oftJue v!N frtr»IIJ tquts 0 rttns Af/lt~llll t~nheliJ : · . · D d. 3 Jlli~ /' . |