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The collection of the historie of England. By S.D.
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Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
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1618
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STC 6248; ESTC S107285
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A Speciall Priuiledge Licence and Authority is granted by the Kings Maiesties Letters Patents vnto the Author Samuel Daniel one of the Groomes of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuy Chamber for him his Executors Administrators Assignes or Deputies to Print or cause to be Imprinted and to sell assigne and dispose to his or their benefit This Booke intituled The Collection of the History of England with an Appendix to the same hereafter to bee printed Straightly forbidding any other to imprint or cause to be imprinted to import vtter or sell or cause to be imported vttered or solde the sayd Booke or Bookes or any part thereof within any of his Maiesties Dominions vpon paine of his Maiesties high displeasure and to forfeit Fiue pounds lawfull English Monie for euery such Booke or Bookes or any part thereof printed imported vttered or solde contrary to the meaning of this Priuiledge besides the forfeiture of the sayd Booke Books c. as more at large appeareth by his Maiesties sayd Letters Patents dated at Westminster the 11. of March in the Fifteenth yeare of his Raigne of England and of Scotland the one and Fiftith THE COLLECTION of the Historie of England By S. D. LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes dwelling in Foster-lane for the Author Cum Priuilegio TO THE MAIESTY OF ANNE OF DENMARKE QVEENE OF ENGLAND Scotland France and Ireland QVeenes the Mothers of our Kings by whom is continued the blessing of succession that preserues the Kingdome hauing their parts running in the times wherein they liue are likewise interressed in the Histories thereof which containe their memories and all that is left of them when they haue left to be in this world And therefore to you great Queene of England and the greater by your loue to the nation and the blessing you haue brought forth for the continuation of the future good thereof doe I your humblest seruant addresse this peece of our History which as it is a worke of mine appertaines of right to your Maiestie being for the most parte done vnder your Roofe during my attendance vpon your sacred person and if euer it shall come to bee an intire worke and merit any acceptation in the world it must remaine among the memorials of you and your time as brought forth vnder the splendor of your goodnes Howsoeuer this which is done shall yet shew how desirous I haue beene to lay out my time and industry as farre as my ability would extend to doe your Maiestie and my Country seruice in this kinde And though at high Altares none but high Priests ought to sacrifize yet vouchsafe mighty Queene to accept this poore oblation from the hand of your Maiesties Humblest seruant Samuel Danyel Certaine Aduertisements to the Reader THis Peece of our History which here I diuulge not but impart priuately to such Worthy persons as haue fauoured my indeauors therein should long since haue beene much more and come abroade with Dedication Preface and all the Complements of a Booke had my Health and Meanes beene answerable to my desire But being otherwise I must intreate my Friends to be content to be payd by peeces as I may and accept my willingnesse to yeeld as much as mine ability can performe It is more then the worke of one man were hee of neuer so strong forces to Compose a passable contexture of the whole History of England For although the inquisition of Ancient times written by others be prepared yet the Collection and Disposition I finde most Laborious and I know quam sit magnum dare aliquid in manus hominum especially in this kinde wherein more is expected then hath beene deliuered before Curiosity will not be content with Ordinaries For mine owne part I am so greedy of doing well as nothing suffices the appetite of my care herein I had rather be Master of a small peece handsomely contriued then of vaste roomes ill proportioned and vnfurnished and I know many others are of my minde Now for what I haue done which is the greatest part of our History and wherein I dare auow is more together of the mayne then hath beene yet contracted into one peece I am to render an account whence I had my furniture which if I haue omitted to charge my Margin withall I would haue the Reader to know that in the Liues of William the First William the Second Henry the First and Stephan I haue especially followed William Malmsbury Ingulphus Roger Houueden Huntingdon with all such Collections as haue beene made out of others for those times In the Liues of Henry the Second Richard the First Iohn and Henry the Third Giraldus Cambrensis Rushanger Mat. Paris Mat. Westminst Nich. Triuet Caxton and others In the Liues of Edward the First Edward the Second and Third Froissart and Walsingham with such collections as by Pollidore Virgile Fabian Grafton Hall Holingshead Stow and Speed dilligent and famous Trauailors in the search of our History haue beene made and diuulged to the world For forrayne businesses especially with France where we had most to doe I haue for Authors Paulus AEmilius Haillan Tillet and others without whom we cannot truely vnderstand our owne affaires And where otherwise I haue had any supplyes extraordinary either out of Record or such Instruments of State as I could procure I haue giuen a true account of them in the Margin So that the Reader shall be sure to be payd with no counterfeit Coyne but such as shall haue the Stampe of Antiquitie the approbation of Testimony and the allowance of Authority so farre as I shall proceed herein And for that I would haue this Breuiarie to passe with an vn-interrupted deliuery of the especiall affaires of the Kingdome without imbroyling the memory of the Reader I haue in a body apart vnder the title of an Appendix Collected all Treaties Letters Articles Charters Ordinances Intertainments prouisions of Armies businesses of Commerce withother passages of State appertayning to our History which assoone as I haue meanes to Print shall for the better satisfying of such Worthie persons as may make vse of such Materials accompany this Collection and to this Appendix I haue made references in the Margin as occasion requires For the Worke it selfe I can chalenge nothing therein but only the sowing it together and the obseruation of those necessary circumstances and inferences which the History naturally ministers desirous to deliuer things done in as euen and quiet an order as such a heape will permit without quarrelling with the Beliefe of Antiquity deprauing the actions of other Nations to aduance our owne or keeping backe those Reasons of State they had for what they did in those times holding it fittest and best agreeing with integritie the chiefest duty of a Writer to leaue things to their owne Fame and the Censure thereof to the Reader as being his part rather then mine who am onely to recite things done not to rule them Now for the errors herein committed either by mine owne mistakings or