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A16237	The true order and methode of wryting and reading hystories according to the precepts of Francisco Patricio, and Accontio Tridentino, two Italian writers, no lesse plainly than briefly, set forth in our vulgar speach, to the great profite and commoditye of all those that delight in hystories. By Thomas Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norfolke. Anno. 1574.	Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.; Patrizi, Francesco, 1529-1597. Della historia diece dialoghi.; Aconcio, Iacopo, d. 1566. Della osservationi et avvertimenti che haver si debbono nel leger delle historie.	1574 (1574)	STC 3161; ESTC S104654	14,877	67

passe Finally hys industrie earnest follovving of the matter bringeth the successe of the deede to perfection Povver consisteth chieflye in three things that is in riches in publique auctoritie and in pryuate estimacion Skyll also consisteth in bodily force in the boldnesse of naturall courage in the sodayne motions of affectes and in the stedfast habytes of the minde For let no man thinke to doe anye vvoorthie enterprise or to bring any notable thing to good effect vnlesse he be mooued therevnto by all or some of the qualities aboue sayde vvhich the vvriter must declare at the full if he mindeth that others shoulde receyue any good by his vvriting And as it is not meete that the vvryter fayle in describing the deede and the doer togither vvith all those partes vvhereby the deede vvas brought to effect Euen so it behooueth in any vvise that amongest the reast of the chiefest outvvarde partes he consider well the cause that mooued the doer to enterprise the deede to declare the same accordingly And note here that by the cause I meane the ende For the matter vvheron the doer vvorketh is the deede of peace of vvarre or of sedicion And the shape or forme thereof is the meanes and maner of doing vvhich the doer vseth therein And the cause efficient is the doer himselfe Affections also haue a fynall cause as the ende of vvrath is reuenge of loue the fruition of the thing beloued and of mercy the ende is helpe and comforte Novve as touching the tyme the vvriter ought to shevve the very moment as vvell of the beginning as of the ending of the deede to the intent that the reader may knovve the continuance of the principall deede and also of the inferiour deedes And for the better knovvledge of the opportunitie of affayres It shal be needefull sometyme to note the daies according as they be eyther vvhote or colde cleare or clovvdye drye or moyste vvindye or snowye holy dayes or vvorking dayes and vvhither it be in the morning at noonetyde or in the euening and likevvise the nights togither vvith the differences of the tymes and seasons thereof and fynally the very houre For as the houre importeth much for doing of the deed so it is very necessary that vve knovv the same The place may be eyther generall especiall or particuler as England Norfolke Norwich The meanes be diuers for euerye thing is done eyther secretelye or openly orderly or vvithoute order And hereto appertains all meanes and vvayes that be vsed in gouerning states in making lavves in creating Magistrates in deliberating in iudging in appointing places in prouiding victuals in gathering vp the publike reuenues and a thousande such lyke thynges of all vvhich things it behooueth that the vvriter haue consideracion vvhen neede is that he declare the same at large And in speaking of conspiracies he must tell hovv the conspiratours came togyther hovv they got fautours and hovv they ended their enterprise hovv they vvere chastised or hovve perhappes they escaped free and such like And in matters of vvarre he must shevve in vvhat sort the same vvas made and hovv the Souldiours vvere leauyed payd exercised and gouerned and hovv the hoste vvas ordered in marching through the Countries in being incamped in skirmuching in fighting battels eyther in playne field or in place strongly trenched or othervvise fortified and hovv they passed Mountaynes Riuers and Marrishes hovv they conueyed their cariages artillerie and munition all vvhich things are very necessary to be knovvne for to auoyd all euill happes that may hereafter chaunce in like cases Of instruments vvhereby mans lyfe is mayntayned in tyme of peace yea and also in tyme of sedition there be in a maner infinite kindes but of such as men vse in tyme of vvarre there are but foure principall that is footemen horsemen armour and nauye all vvhich according to the diuersitie of tymes and countries are diuersly vsed For the Macedonians Grecians Persians and Romaynes dyd vse these things diuersly in diuers tymes and dayly as occasion tyme and place required chaunged the maner of their armour asvvell offensyue as defensyue and vve doe the like at this present vvherfore it is necessarye that the vvriter declare all such particularities at the full VVhose lyues ought to be chronicled ALl those persons vvhose lyues haue beene such as are to bee follovved for their excellencie in vertue or else to be fledde for their excellencie in vice are meete to be chronicled And if they vvere publique personages or gouernours then they are to be considered in as many diuers vvayes as there be diuers kindes of gouernement VVhereof according to Aristotle there be sixe that is a kingdome a Tyriannye the rule of many good men the rule of few mightye in povver a common welth and the rule of the base sorte of people for euery one of these gouernements hath his excellencie proper to himselfe diuers one from an other It is meete that the lyues of Princes should bee chronicled that it may appeare hovv things vvere gouerned vnder euerye kinde of Prince vvere he good or bad To gouernement belong tvvo ciuill vertues Prudence and Iustice and tvvo mylitar vertues that is prudence and fortitude And vvhosoeuer by meanes of the tvvo mylitar vertues hath done any notable actes good or euill is meete to be chronicled but the tvvo ciuill vertues are othervvise to be considered of For iniustice the contrarie vice to iustice if it be open and manifest it is of small force in ciuill actions and the greater it is the lesse povver it hath to hurt Againe on the other side mere iustice without prudence and fortitude doth fevve things vvorthie of memorie but if both the ciuill and mylitar vertues be ioyned togither they bee of great force and doe bring to passe vvorks of excellencie vvorthie of fame and memorie and they may be mixt or compounded three manner of vvayes for eyther they are both in the person of vvhome the hystorie is made or else in the gouernement of the citie or cōmon vvealth or else the one in the one and the other in the other Amongst the ciuill sort are to be reckened Princes and Lordes of states as Kings and Tirants and also the Magistrats of common vveales And as touching the vvarryours they be of tvvo sorts for eyther they bee home Souldiours bredde and borne in the same countrye or else forryners that serue for hyer In vvriting the lyfe of anye man you ought first to shevv his proper name the name of his familie and of vvhat countrye he is and then to declare his actes and deedes And vvhatsoeuer enterprise any man taketh in hand he doth it being mooued and prouoked therevnto eyther by some outvvarde principle or by some invvarde principle if outvvarde it is eyther by destinie by force or by fortune if invvarde then it is eyther by nature by affection or by choyse and election and such electiō springeth eyther of nature or of some passion of the

¶ The true order and Methode of wryting and reading Hystories according to the precepts of Francisco Patricio and Accontio Tridentino tvvo Italian writers no lesse plainly than briefly ▪ set forth in our vulgar speach to the great profite and commoditye of all those that delight in Hystories By Thomas Blundeuill of Nevvton Flotman in Norfolke Anno. 1574. ¶ Imprinted at London by VVillyam Seres Firmo Appoggio HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE 1574 To the most Noble Erle of Leycester KNowynge youre Honor amongst other your good delyghtes to delyght moste in reading of Hystories the true Image and portrature of Mans lyfe and that not as many doe to passe away the tyme but to gather thereof such iudgement and knowledge as you may therby be the more able as well to direct your priuate actions as to giue Counsell lyke a most prudent Counseller in publyke causes be it matters of warre or peace I that haue no other meane to shewe my thankfull mynde towardes your Honor from tyme to tyme but with yncke and Paper thought I coulde not wryte of anye thing more pleasing or more gratefull than of those preceptes that belong to the order of wryting and reading Hystories which preceptes I partly collected out of the tenne Dialogues of Francisco Patricio a Methodicall writer of such matter and partly out of a little written Treatyse whych myne olde friende of good memorie Accontio did not many yeares since present to your Honor in the Italian tongue of whych my labour and good wyll I most humbly beseech your Honour to allowe ▪ wyth that fauourablle iudgement which you haue alwayes heretofore vsed towards me and therwith to continue my good Lord vntyll I shall deserue the contrary Most bounde to your Honor Thomas Blundeuill The true order and methode of writing and reading hystoryes c. AN Hystorye ought to declare the thynges in suche order as they were done And bycause euery thing hath hys beginning augmentacion state declinacion and ende The writer ought therfore to tell the things so as therby a man may perceiue and discerne that which apparteyneth to euery degree and that not onely as touching the Countrie or Citie but also as touching the rule or dominion thereof For the beginning augmentacion state declynacion and ende of a Countrie or Citie and of the empire thereof be not all one but diuers things Foure things would be disparsed thoroughout the history that is to saye the trade of lyfe the publique reuenevves the force the maner of gouernement By knowing what trade of lyfe the Countrie or Citie in euery tyme and season hath vsed we learne howe to haue lyke in like times Agayne by knovving the reuenews and what things haue bene done therwith we come to know vvhat the Countrye or Citie is able to doe The force consisteth in Souldiours in the maner of the militar discipline in the Nauies in Munition and instruments of vvarre And the vvriter must not forget to shew vvhither the souldiours be hyred foreners or home Souldiours for lacke whereof Polibius hath giuen great cause of woonder vnto thys age because all Italie at this present is not able to leauie the tenth part of the number of Souldiours which the Romans leauied in his tyme enioy●ing all that tyme neyther Liguria Lombardie Romania nor Marcapianarite And yet as the foresayde Polibius vvryteth they vvere able to set forth foure score thousande footemen and three score thousand horsemen And in their firste vvarres agaynst Carthage being only Lords of Italie they dyd sende a nauie to the sea of three hundred and thirtie great Gallyes called Quinqueremi and novv the Turke for all his greatnesse is scant able to sende to the sea so many small Gallyes The vvriter also muste shevve vvhat kinde of gouernement the Countrye or Citie had in hir beginning augmentation state declynation and ende And whither there vvere any chaunge of gouernemēt for vvhat cause and hovve the same vvas done and vvhat good or euill ensued thereof Hystories bee made of deedes done by a publique vveale or agaynst a publique vveale and such deedes be eyther deedes of vvarre of peace or else of sedition and conspiracie Agayne euery deede be it priuate or publique must needs be done by some person for some occasion in sometyme and place with meanes order and vvith instruments all vvhich circumstaunces are not to be forgotten of the vvriter and specially those that haue accompanyed and brought the deede to effect Euery deed that man doth springeth eyther of some outvvarde cause as of force or fortune vvhich properlye ought not to be referred to man or else of some invvard cause belonging to man of vvhich causes there be tvvo that is reason and appetite Of reason springeth counsell and election in affaires of the lyfe vvhich not being letted do cause deedes to ensue Of appetite doe spryng passions of the mynde vvhich also doe cause men to attempt enterprises Agayne of deeds some haue sometimes such partes as be also deeds and sometymes parts that be no deedes And bycause that euery deede is done by some person for some cause in tyme and place vvith meanes and instrumēts vve vvill therefore suppose that to be alvvayes true as vvell in the principall deede as in the meane and smallest deedes of all And as the qualities offices and placyng of the members of a mans body be diuers and yet tende all to one ende that is to saye to the preseruation of lyfe and of the vvhole body euen so all meaner deedes ought to be applyed to the accomplyshinge of the principall deede And if there be a principall deede vnto the vvhich all other inferiour deedes ought to be referred as to their finall ende there muste needes be also a principall doer vvhome all other inferiour doers must obeye Agayne if there be a principall dooer there is also a principall cause ruling all other inferiour causes and also a principall time place meane and instrument And as deedes haue outvvardly belonging vnto them all the foresayd circumstances so invvardly they doe comprehende three speciall thinges vvhich doe runne thoroughout all the circumstaunces from the beginning to the ending And they be these possibilitie occasiō and successe VVhich things the vvriter must declare euen as they vvere And as touching the dooer to be knovvne vvhat he is and to be knovvne as chiefe dooer is tvvo things and requireth tvvo maner of proceedings For vvee learne vvhat hee is and vvhat maner of man by knovving hys name the name of his family the countrie vvhere hee vvas borne and bredde and such like things but he is knovvne as chiefe doer by his povver skill and industrie For these three things doe bring to effect the possibilitie occasion and successe of the deede For the povver ability of the doer causeth the thing vvhich is possible to be done in deede Againe his skill causeth him to take occasion vvhen it is offered and to vse the meetest meanes to bring it to