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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20902	The Sclopotarie of Iosephus Quercetanus, phisition. Or His booke containing the cure of wounds receiued by shot of gunne or such like engines of warre. Whereunto is added his spagericke antidotary of medicines against the aforesayd woundes. Published into English by Iohn Hester, practitioner in the said spagiricall arte; Sclopterius	Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609.; Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609. Antidotarium spagiricum. aut; Hester, John, d. 1593.	1590 (1590)	STC 7277; ESTC S116126	87,513	114

THE Sclopotarie of Iosephus Quercetanus Phisition Or His booke containing the cure of wounds receiued by shot of Gunne or such like Engines of warre WHEREVNTO IS ADDED HIS SPAGEricke antidotary of medicines against the aforesayd woundes PVBLISHED INTO ENGLISH BY Iohn Hester practitioner in the said spagiricall Arte. LONDON Printed by Roger Ward for Iohn Sheldrake 1590. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE LORD Robert Deuorax Earle of Essex and Ewe Vicount of Hereford and Bowrchier Lord Ferrers of Chartley Burchaier and Louaine maister of the Queenes Maiesties horse and knight of the most honourable order of the Garter I H. wisheth all heauenly happinesse and increase of honourable vertue THe state and condition of true nobilititie subiect still to fatall destinies or rather to the deuine direction of the most highest is such right honourable that whether you regard the vertue from which it originallie sprong or respect the honour by which it continually holdeth you shall neuer find it vnfauoured of the better nor vnspighted of the baser sorte By which two spurres of praise and dispraise as it were pricked foreward it runneth in a speedie and voluntarie course the right and perfect race to earthly felicitie the rich and present possession whereof is a plaine and easie passage to that heauenly paradise to which your father to the great griefe of all good men though to his great and vnspeakeable ioy is lately gone who leauing behind him the same steps for you to tread in that he traced the same pathes for you to wander in that he walked in before you least at his death so liuely a pattern for you to imitate as neither our present age can affoord you any more vertues nor any age past many more valiant Sith then of these two points the very sound and solide substance of true nobilitie you haue in your own house so rare a president of fresh memorie proceed right honorable as you haue well begun so by this line to leuell all your actions as in becomming such a sonne of such a father you may proue more wise then by inioying his lands possessions seem fortunate The way that he walkt in lay as far wide of vice as vertue her selfe in flesh and bloud cold pace it out by which he grewe so deare to her sacred Maiestie so acceptable to his peeres so regarded of the multitude that it were hard to gesse whether he were more fauoured more beloued or more honored This vvay though in some apparance it lie opē to the vvide vvorld and so by that meanes common to you vvith many yet by a special prerogatiue it is peculier but to a fevv among whom your honour so hold it by inheritance that not to challenge your right therein vvere but to disclaime your dissent and to assume the possession is but to accept of your ovvne title vvhich in the opinion of such as knovve you vvell you may lavvfully auerre vvhereunto I vvill forbeare longer to exhort you as vvell for that your forvvardnesse already stirred vp by a naturall inclination preuentes all forraine perswasions as for that I knovv you to be furnished vvith men ofsuch vvorth vvhom in all honorable affabilitie it pleaseth you to conuerse vvith as that herein an abler mans councell then mine ovvne may seeme either superfluous or friuolous Your late expedition into Portingall hovvsoeuer the euent sorted out yeelded to the indifferent censure of euerie man a moste pregnant proofe of a martiall mind at vvhat time the skilful and expert captain took as good occasion to wonder at your singuler vallor as the sick maymed and poore simple souldier to cōmend your liberal boūty both which are so deeply impressed in their harts that saw felt them as nothing but death shall enforce a forgetfulnesse And now right honorable acknowledging my slender report herein to be too base beare a record for matter of so great consequence and carrying no minde for sundry dutifull respects to register anie part of the voiage I leaue to speake more thereof In all lowly humilitie moste humbly beseeching you to auouch the patrionage of this my simple and plaine translation wherein I haue endeuoured to deliuer into Englishe that vvhich sometime Iosephus Quercetanus the author left both in lattin and in fresh to the great benefite of his countrey men and all other that take notice thereof the subiect being a most learned profitable discourse of the cure of vvoundes gotten by gunshot a matter in this tumultious and troublesome time in knovvledge acceptable and for necessitie commendable in vvhich patronage you shall not onely ioyne partner vvith a mightie Prince Frances late brother to the french king but also by countenancing the booke continue the good opinion that soldiers generally haue conceiued of you vvhereof I presume you make no small accompt And so vvishing to your honor all maner of happinesse euen to the fulnesse of your ovvne content I humbly take my leaue Your honours most duetifull Iohn Hester THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IT is credibly recorded that one and the selfe same Citie of Ments in Germany about one and the selfe same time found out and deliuered to posteritie two inuentions of rare and woonderfull importance the Print and the Gunne the former not so gratefull for the exceeding good which thereby to euery man doth or may ensue as the latter for the excessiue hurt threatned to all men is vngratious and yet both at this day in such request as it were hard to say whether Mars his knights more value the one then Mineruas schollers account of the other so that as both haue for beginning their authors and founders so for continuance they both want not their fautors and maintainers neither is or can the priuiledge of the one be any way preiudice to the other but either stands or falles in estimation as sundrie men to either are seuerally conceited Leauing therefore the print to the learned who when and where they list can deliuer you in good and sweete termes the vse necessitie and commendation thereof I haue chosen with mine Author to speake a little of the other or rather of the cure of such deadly wounds as by the furious breath of so dangerous a deuise are procured to vs and that not in smooth and curious phrase or picked eloquence the roughnesse of the matter vtterly reiecting any such soft handling but in blunt and rude wordes such as best sute and sort with the subiect it selfe And here it is no part of my meaning with any curiositie to enquire whether the vnhappie inuention of this churlish engine be fetcht from the Fryar or from the diuell or from a ioynt councell of them both helde by consent in Vulcans fyery shoppe I leaue that charge and the search thereof to my masters the Germaines or to any man else y t seekes out of so boisterous an inuention To challenge any ciuil commendation it shall suffise me in an English toonge to tel you a Frenchmans tale