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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01289	An historicall collection of the continuall factions, tumults, and massacres of the Romans and Italians during the space of one hundred and twentie yeares next before the peaceable empire of Augustus Cæsar Selected and deriued out of the best writers and reporters of these accidents, and reduced into the forme of one entire historie, handled in three bookes. Beginning where the historie of T. Liuius doth end, and ending where Cornelius Tacitus doth begin.	Fulbecke, William, 1560-1603?.	1601 (1601)	STC 11412; ESTC S102772	89,977	230

AN HISTORICALL COLLECTION OF THE CONTINVALL FACTIONS TVMVLTS and Massacres of the Romans and Italians during the space of one hundred and twentie yeares next before the peaceable Empire of Augustus Caesar Selected and deriued out of the best writers and reporters of these accidents and reduced into the forme of one entire historie handled in three bookes Beginning where the historie of T. LIVIVS doth end and ending where CORNELIVS TACITVS doth begin LONDON Printed for VVilliam Ponsonby 1601. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS Sackeuill Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Baron of Buckhurst Lord high Treasurer of England one of her Maiesties most honorable Priuie Counsell Chauncellour of the Vniuersitie of Oxford The Epistle Dedicatorie RIGHT Honorable I hope your Lordship will pardon my feare transformed into boldnesse who hauing vowed by good right vnto your Honor excellently deseruing of the more polite learning and milder sciences this small history and so much fearing or rather reuerencing your censure that I did hold it better to smother it with silence then to endow it with light sith your Honour hath trauersed such an infinite sea of histories when as I do but offer certaine shallow riuelettes and slender parcels of an historie yet now notwithstanding as if all were well accomplished I presume to deliuer it into your Lordships hands Therefore that it may appeare clearely and euidently to your Lordship what cause did especiallie mooue me to entertaine this determination I will by your Honours fauour in few words as becommeth me explane and vnfold the secret sense of my minde The fortunes of noblemen a man adorned with nobilitie the state and forme of politike affaires some eye of a common weale the aspiring Icarian Romanes he whose authoritie is effectuall for the depressing of the Popish Phaetons is onely fit to censure and with iudiciall stile to note And what did perswade me to this labour being destinated to another profession and euen then champing vpon the vnpleasant barke of the studie of the Law which might easilie procure a distast of more delightfull learning I do not purpose to conceale Plutarch in that part or region of his worke which is entitled Lucullus for his whole volume doth resemble the hugenesse of the world hath reported and imparted to posteritie that Lucullus Hortensius and Sisenna being famous for skill in Law did by couenant determine to write according to lot the historie of that time To Lucullus was allotted the description of the Marsian warre who content with this taske did with great commendation finish it and he being a worthie Conquerour did in the Greeke language display the notable conquestes of the Romanes which thing hauing recorded and digested in my minde I found by infallible exexperience that one studious of Law might afford some leasurable time to the diuulging of an historie For I do not despaire to follow these Romanes though I do not aspire to their exquisite and industrious perfection for that were to climbe aboue the climates but to imitate any man is euery mans talent But this slender gift of paper and small accompt I would it were worthie of your Honour your birth your place yet flowing from that minde of which it was conceiued that is to true nobilitie most addicted take most Honorable Lord in good worth and aboue my desert or expectation and not onely with looking but with liking vouchsafe it The Lord God support your Honour with vnchaungeable safetie Your Honors most humble to commaund WILLIAM FVLBECKE The Praeface to the Reader FOurteene yeares are now runne out sithence I fully ended and dispatched this historicall labour for departing from the Vniuersitie of Oxford in the yeare 1584 and addressing my selfe to the studie of the Law I thought it more conuenient and reasonable at once to finish and perfect this worke which I had already begun then breaking my course with delaies to be still striking on the anuill knowing that things begun are more easily concluded then thinges interrupted can be conioyned wherefore in that very yeare and some few daies following I did begin continue and consummate the three bookes of this historie since which time it hath lyen in the couert of my studie of my selfe seldome looked on of others some times read who by vrgent perswasion would haue mooued me to offer it to the publike view of my countreymen to which I would in no wise condiscend alleaging for reason that it would be thought a blemish of impudencie in me to assay the discription of such things which by Appian Plutarch Paterculus others haue bene excellently deliuered which I tooke to be a sufficient fortresse and support of my excuse and refusall but againe I heard that all the Romane writers which haue reported the accidents of this historie are either in their narrations too long and prolixe or else too harsh and vnpleasant or else so exceeding briefe that the coherence and mutuall dependance of things could hardly be discerned or coniectured in the narrow compasse of so strict desciphering This I heard with patience and answered with silence for I durst not oppose my blunt arguments to their daintie appetite the truth standing so in the middle way betwixt bs both that I could not with safe conscience in all these allegations dissent from them nor with sound opinion in all consent vnto them wherefore weighing more precisely in minde and ballancing with vnaffectioned thoughts the state of the difference betwixt vs and beholding the naked pourtrature of the thing it selfe without shadow of circumstances I perceiued that the great prolixitie and the too exceeding breuitie of the Romane historiographers could not well be couered with the veile of any reasonable excuse and further the obiection of others could not well be confuted who do condemne in their writings great disagreament and contrariety of narration wherefore remembring my first intent in the collecting of these historicall reports which was to single and sequester the vndeniable truth of the historie from the drosse and falshood which was in many places intermixed and enfolded in it and to do this in such sort that my speciall care in auoyding the extremities of length and breuity two lothsome faults from which notwithstanding few writers be free might fully and manifestly appeare and considering likewise that histories are now in speciall request and accompt whereat I greatly reioyce acknowledging them to be the teachers of vertuous life good conuersation discreete behauiour politike gouernement conuenient enterprises aduised proceedings warie defences grounded experience and refined wisedome And being again solicited by perswasible meanes to commit the censure of this my historicall collection to the curtesie of others I haue at last yeelded to this motion reposing my selfe rather vpon kinde construction then rigorous desert The vse of this historie is threefold first the reuealing of the mischiefes of discord and ciuill discention in which the innocent are proscribed for their wealth noblemen dishonored cities become waste by banishment