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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

¶ 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

minde of custome or else of the discourse of reason The acts vvhich vve doe being forced by outvvarde occasion deserue neyther blame nor prayse neyther are they to be follovved or fled sith they proceede not of our ovvne courage or covvardlynesse And therefore it shall suffice to make mention of these so farre as they may eyther further or hinder those actions that spring of invvarde causes vvhich actions are most vvorthye to bee vvritten I meane those actes vvhich the person of whom you vvrite dyd himselfe and not the actes of his Auncetours or that vvere done parhaps in his tyme hee deseruing to haue no parte thereof neyther are all his actes to be vvritten but those onely vvhich are notable and may serue to some good example And as touching the invvarde causes I meane here by nature that inclynacion vvhich a man hath from his cradle by affections I meane certayne liuelye motions as anger loue hatred put in execution For so they bring foorth actions eyther by sodain motions vvithout electiō or else by some passion bred by custome and growne to hab te Some agayne doe spring of bare and simple discourse accompanyed neither vvith passion or custome And some doe spring of discourse accustomed eyther to vice or vertue And therefore the vvriter in tellyng the actes and deeds ought to shew of which of these causes aboue sayde suche actes proceeded specially those that vvere done vvith choyse and election And to doe this vvell he ought to consider that though the discourse and affectiō from whence the action springeth proceedeth for the most parte of nature yet they be somtimes greatly increased and augmented by other things that are not naturall ▪ as by the educatiō and nurture vvhich man hath frō his tender yeres or by the studies exercises hereto he is giuen in his ripe age And these two things do vvorke three effectes First they do confirme a man in that vvherein hee hath bene trained exercised brought vp Secondly they frame his affections therevnto And finally they breede by custome suche a perfect habite in the minde as being once gotten is vvorthie eyther of prayse or disprayse To bring therefore into a briefe summe those things vvhich are chiefly to bee considered by the vvryter vvho hath to chronicle any mans life I saye that they be these The name of the man his familie his parentes and his Countrye and also his destinie fortune and force or necessitie if they seeme manifestly to appertayne to the action his nature affections and election proceeding eyther of vvisedome passion or custome his education exercises deedes and speaches and also the age and time vvherein euery notable acte was done and the qualities of his bodye vvhither they vvere signes and tokens of his mynde or else helps to the actions And as the vvriter is bounde to shevv the educatiō of the person chronicled and those exercises and studyes vvhereby hee hath formed hys maners so also he is bounde to tell euery deede vvorde signe or token that maye signifie eyther his maners his nature his affections thoughts or any maner of motion of the mynde For sith that the minde is the fountayne and father of all actions it behooueth vs to knovv that as perfectly as is possible to the intēt that in measuring therby his deeds and speaches both profitable and hurtfull vve may be able to iudge of their goodnesse or naughtinesse both by that vvhich is honest or dishonest profitable or hurtfull in deede and also by the apparance thereof And sith that to profite others vvee obserue in mans lyfe none other thing but deeds speaches It is needefull not onely to consider the thinges that go before vvhich vve haue heretofore rehearsed but also those things vvhich of necessitie doe accompany such deeds or speaches that is to save the doer the causes the tyme the place the meane and instrumentes and such lyke in such sort as the vvriter in duelye obseruing these circumstances may set foorth a true and lyuelye Image of both lyfe and man whereof he maketh his hystorie VVhat Profite hystories doe yeelde EVery Citie or Countrye standeth vpon three principall pyonts vnto one of vvhich all publique actions doe appertaine that is peace sedition and vvarre the first is the ende of the tvvo last ▪ in the vvhich ende the happinesse of our lyfe cōsisteth and the accomplishment of three desires vvhich we naturally haue first to lyue secondly to lyue contentedly or blessedly and thyrdly to lyue alvvayes in that happinesse so far as is possible to mans nature vvhich three things the latt●ns doe briefly vtter in this sort Esse benè esse semper esse And as touching peace first it is meete to knovve the vvay vnto it And then to follovve that vvaye that vve maye attayne it And by this vvord peace I meane not onely that vvhich consisteth in outvvarde actions but also inwardly in the mind For the outward peace thanks be vnto God to our most gracious Queene vvith hir honourable Counsell vve do quietly enioy here in Englande at this present and haue done manye yeares But the invvarde peace of the heart and mynde hovv small it is God knovveth best The vvay to come to that peace vvherof I speake is partly taught by the Philosophers in generall precepts and rules but the Historiographers doe teache it much more playnlye by perticular examples and experiences and speciallye if they be vvritten vvith that order diligence and iudgement that they ought to be And as the true peace standeth chiefly vppon the contentment of the mindes of the Citizins as vpon hir proper foundacion euen so that cōtentment is grounded vpon the ciuill discipline education laws offices and duties of euery order and companye in the Citie And such peace is broken eyther by some invvarde cōmotion or else by outvvarde vvarre If by invvarde sturre then the cause thereof is sometime the lacke of things necessarie for the maintenaunce of lyfe as of foode apparell and habitacion or dvvelling vvherevvith those that are pinched doe ryse eyther agaynst they owne Citizens that doe abounde and haue plentie or else against theyr neighbours and borderers And somtime the cause of such sturre may be for that they be not suffered to participate of the honors and dignities of the Citie or cōmon vveale And sometyme they rise for excessiue tributes paymēts leauied by the chiefe heads Agayne sometime for iniuries and vvrongs done by one to another all vvhich occasions being taken avvay the peace is easilye preserued vnto vvhiche ende all good lavves orders decrees ought to tende so as a man may rightly say that peace vvholy consisteth in lavves vvell made and vvell kept And as for outvvard vvarre to be offered by the straunger it is eyther open or by the waye of treason The vvaye to be preserued from treason consisteth in hauing good espyall and true intelligence in vvell revvarding the discouerers of the treason in sharpely punishing the