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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

¶ 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