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A19966	The English secretorie VVherin is contayned, a perfect method, for the inditing of all manner of epistles and familiar letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall tytles. In which is layd forth a path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered. Nowe first deuized, and newly published by Angel Daye.	Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.	1586 (1586)	STC 6401; ESTC S119008	166,059	274

their virtues haue compensed the loue which to their parentes they coulde not shew to their children and succession in many degrees after them Such were the families of the Gracchi Fabii Cornelii Hortensii Horatii Metelli Aemilii Scipiones and Fabritii UUhereby I coniecture that the custome heereof by such emulation adorned became afterwardes a dignitie and so succeeded in honour to euery posterity Those Romaines therefore vsed onelye in the front of their Letters to write firste their owne names titles adoptiue and surnames after that his to whom they wrote and lastly their salutation or maner of greetinge● giuing also like additions vnto the other as to him belonged whether it were by familye office or some other dignitye And this was the forme M. T. Cicero M. Varroni Sal. Dicit or C. Caesar Cornelio Balbo salutem dicit But that custome according to the antiquitye of the tyme is longe since worne out and these dayes and seasons haue induced vnto vs for euerye estate of callinge a more statelye reuerence according to the dignity and worthynes of the same The reuerend Maiesty of Emperours Kinges and Princes beeing aduanced with a more excellency and supreme magnificence The names of Dukes Marquises Earles Barons and other Magistrats with more solemne and honourable titles The offices of Estate and places moste Noble amplyfied with larger honours and names accordaunt to their seuerall dignities And albeit few are the nomber that heerein shall be occasioned to occupy their penne but knoweth or almost euerye day may vnderstand the formall application of euery personages honour or worship yet in so much as all sorts are not perfectlye skilled nor euery man lyueth in place so conuenient to vnderstand it and that it hath been parcell of a prescribed order so to doe by those that haue wrytten the lyke method I will set downe so many examples of estates for directions as to the matter and purpose hereof maye be adiudged conuenient beginning from the highest that are or haue beene latelye accustomed in our common-wealth the soueraigne Maiesty excepted vnto the meaner and moste ordinarye vsed and in present practize amongest vs. And first with the dignity of Archbishop to whome in this sort we frame our direction To the most reuerend Father in God the L. Archbishop of Caunterbury or Yorke Primate of England and Metropolitane his very good grace To the right reuerend Father in God and my very good L. the Lorde Bishop of London To the hie and mightye Prince T. Duke of B. his most noble grace To the right honorable and my especiall good L. the Lord Chauncellor or Lorde hie Treasorer of Englande To the right Honourable the L. Marquise of UU Earle of UUilshire c. To the right Honourable the Earle of L. Lord liuetenaunt for her Maiestie in the c. To the right honourable the Earle of H. Lord President of her Maiesties most honorable Councell established in the North. To the right Noble and my singular good L. the Lorde B. one of the L. of her highnesse moste honourable priuie Councell To the right honourable sir W.M. knight Chauncellour of her highnesse court of Ex. and of her Maiesties moste honourable priuy Councell To the right honourable and my singuler good L. and father or Lady mother the Earle or Countesse of N. To the right honourable and my very good Lady the Lady A. Countesse of W. To the moste noble Lady and Paragon of all vertue the Lady M.H. one of the daughters to the deceased right honourable Countesse of P. To the prudent and vertuous Lady endued with al singularitie the Lady F.D. To the moste noble and towardly young gentleman G. T. sonne and heire or one of the sonnes to the right honourable L.D. To the right honourable sir R.D. knight L. Mayor of the Citie of London To the right worshipfull W.F. Esquier sergeant at law and Recorder of the Citie of London To the right worshipfull W. L. Esquier one of the Iustices of her Maiesties Court of common Pleas. To the right worshipfull and my singuler good Lady mother the Lady D.H. To my very good father W.C. merchaunt of the Citie of B. To the worshipfull his especiall good Maister M. R. Merchaunt and Alderman of the Citie of L. To my seruaunt R.D. at C. c. Other examples besides these were needelesse to set downe for that if any alteration at all happen herein it is by reason of familiaritie addition of offices or change of titles Onely let herewith be noted that when letters doe passe from some number of the councell or from anie L. of the same to a noble man or knight these directions of honour and worship are seldome vsed But rather thus To our very good L. Sir I. P. Knight L. Deputie of Ireland To our very louing friends the L. Mayor of the Citie of L. and W. C. and R. P. Aldermen of the the same To my very good L. the L. T.H. To my very louing frend sir T. P. knight To our very louing friends sir R. S. knight Custos rotulorum of her Maiesties Count. of B. and ● W. and S. P. Esquiers Iustices of peace of the same shyre The like directions also are vsed of an Earle to anye of these estates to hym inferiour in callyng and of a Baron to a Iustice of peace but if he be a knight he will commonlye adde vnto hym hys title of worshippe After whiche titles or directions thus framed it shall behooue especially in the vse of the foremost to set down the place of dwelling or abode as at the Courte or els where At N P. or D. geuing the name of the place Mannour or house where hee remayneth to whome the superscription passeth and so is the direccion made perfit CAP. VII Additions of other thinges in this methode to be considered NOWE after all these partes herein mentioned to be considered remaineth yet some fewe poyntes whiche I haue not thought good to passe vnremembred A speciall note to hym that would desire to be harkened vnto in his writing in any wise to haue regard to his oportunitie which in the chapters before layd downe I haue sondrie times concluded vnder the nam●f time Neyther is the same time herein alleadged of such consideration to bee esteemed of small regard but rather in affayres importing the same to be accompted of great weight For that I haue seene some and heard of manye that by fauour of honourable and worshipfull beeing in state to haue obtayned great matters haue notwithstanding by theyr great rashnesse and not aduerting tyme conuenient to require what they would at the ●●ast beene of all hope of benefite vtterly dispossessed It is straung to see the shamelesse condition of somme and yet a thing that my selfe haue many times noted yea euen in those of reasonable accompt whoe hauing large and great habilitie to wade thorough the weightiest of theyr

in the latine toong was so perfect his progression in the greek so excellent his skill and deliuery of forraign languages so wonderfull his princely towardnes in al things so rare and so plentifull as manie times moued al the regarders to admire him but foūd none of al his associats in the same exercises that were euer able to followe him Nowe if 〈◊〉 shall come to his riper years and how therein hee profited in the towardly exercise and vse of armes beseeming a Prince of so hie and expected admiration what could be wished in any one that in him was not fully accomplished So comly and with such vncontrolled dexterity could he sit ride and gouern his horse so couragiously and with such nobility could he welde and vse any weapon either at tilte barriers or turney with such hie and approued direction ordered he al his complementes to eyther of these belonging as did wel manifest the magnanimitie and worthines of his mind and what maner a one he wold afterwards become towardes the bewtifiyng of hys Countrey A more playne and euident demonstration wherof did at any one time in nothing so much apeare as euen then when he was yet in his minoritie For when there was remayning as yet no signe or token at al of manly shew in his f●ce being neuertheles of stature seemly and tall and of goodly constitution in hys body wel beseeming the yeares he then caried also attendant on the mighty king his father in the warres of Fraunce what thinges did hee there performe what weightie enterprises and those beyond all expectation would he vndertake in honour of his royall progenie was it not to to strange that beeing in comparison of yeares as it were a childe deuoyd of so confirmed and auntient graffed experience as beseemed the warres he vndertook notwithstanding at xviii yeares of age with halfe his fathers power by incessaunt intreatie vppon a most couragious desire of an euer thirsting glory committed to his leading with condition and charge eyther there to eternise his death by an euerlasting memory or backe to return agayn with triumphant gained victory to ioyn with the whole and mighty power of Fraunce and al the chiualrie therof wher to his immortal and surpassing hie renowne he attained vppon them by the permission of God a moste memorable tropheye But why dwel I in these slender discourses small God knowes in respect of those mightie conquestes by him afterwardes atchieued in deteining you from the sweete and ardent remembraunce of the rest If he being yet sequestred in yeares from any ripenesse at all when it was then to be supposed hee moste needed gouernment could by suche stately and inuincible valor so moderate his great and weightyest actions as to become at that verye instaunt so redoubted and famous what might wee deeme of hym afterwarde beeing once perfectly established in all kinde of manly directions but that of necessitye hee should by many degrees exceede and goe beyond the formost shewe of all hys excellencyes and the greatest expectation that might bee of all hys progressions and so vndoubtedly he did For beeyng once attayned to mans estate hee grewe immediately to become a Prince sage discreete polliticke and wise in all hys actions of rare and singuler circumspection and prouidence benigne and of all others most fauourable and courteous fortunate and euer inuincible in the warres liberall to hys followers and of a hye replenished bountie to euery one a verye Patron and defender of innocents absolutely fauouring always the right Magnanim●ous as touching his estate the high and weightie enterprises he took in hand exceedingly feared abroad woonderfully beloued at home mixing alwaies thinterchaungeable exercise of armes with continuall studie of learning Of suche exceeding modestie and temperance as is merueilous Insomuch as the king his father being heere in England when in the great fight of Poicters hee hadde discomfited and ouerthrowne in one day three mighty battels of the French and taken in the last of them king Iohn and his sonne prisoners he was not puffed vp at all with the honor of ●o● stately and triumphant victorie neyther grew he insolent vpon the same but entertained the king his son in his own tent so honorably and therwithal with so great nobility and surpassing courtesie as that hee neglected not to serue them himselfe at supper and seemed verely at that season in all thinges to haue bin reputed in hys own intendmenr as if he had neuer bene conquerour The shewe whereof so much encreased his incomparable bountie and so mightely honoured the estate of hys victory as that the king then confessed that to become the prisoner of suche a one it coulde bee no disparagment vnto so mighty a soueraigne as himselfe seeyng that hee was by the force of that onely ouerthrowe made companion of the greatest nobilitie that euer he saw Manie honourable partes could I heere inferre vn-you of him infallible arguments of his incredible modestie for long after this when this mighty Prince had atchieued so many and weighty honours throughout all Fraunce as the regard wherof made his name a terrour and his becke a commaund to compell theyr soueraigntie vnto his fathers obedience he was required by king Dampeter of Castile to help him agaynst Henrie his basterd brother who had then expulsed hym vnlawfully vsurped vpon his kingdom Wherupon hauing by the couragious endeuour of himselfe and hys knights and by their sole and only prowesse brought downe the vsurper and driuen him cleane out of the country albeit his strength was suche and the admirable fauour of the people so great as might easily haue inuited him there to the wearing of a crowne hee neuerthelesse of a high and noble disposition holding it far more honourable to make a king then to be a king so farre forth declared his temperance at that very instant not commonly happening vnto euery one especiallye in causes of a kingdome as that hee vtterly abstayned so much as to beare an appetite or liking thereunto but to hys immortall renowme placed and restored therin againe the true and lawfull inheritour of the same setling him according as was first intended to hys crowne and kingdome Could there my L. in any one haue appeared greater argumentes of magnanimitie Iustice Temperaunce then was remayning in thys Prince Was euer any more replenished with all kynde of excellencies then those wherewith himselfe was posessed And yet if continuall happinesse in all worldly attempts if neuer ceassing and eternised famous victories if the commendation and honour done vnto hym of his mightiest enemies if strength and glorye of hys country and honoured titles of his victorious father if confirmed leagues of diuers mightie Princes Confederates and Alies if feruent and of all others the most principall and ardent loue of his knightes subiectes and followers if all or any of these might