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Title: Notes of advice for writers of English history, being a "Second or finall Addresse" in fourteen paragraphs or sections; containing notes on the several periods into which the history may be divided, the methods in which it may be treated, the authors to be read for formation of style, the dangers to be avoided, and, finally, some short criticisms on a few English historians.
Date: ca. 1616
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS Rawl. D. 1, fols. 11r-v, 13v-15v
Moore. Sir Thomas Moores workes some
fewe outworne or antiquated
wordes excepted./
Sidney The Arcadia of Sir Phillip
Sidney is worthiely most famous
for with corceipt, and splendor
of Courtly expressions which
are not to be vsed by any Historian
but very rarely and with great
Iudgement, as one whose style
should haue glosse, and Lustre,
but otherwise soliditie, and
fluencie rather then odd no
=tions, full of affected newnes
proper to Oratours and Poets./
Queene Elizabeth.
Sauile. Sir Henry Savile his end of
Nero and begining of Galba./
Earl of Essex Robert Earle of Essex his Apologie
and letters to Roger Earle of
Rutland./
Hooker Mr Hooker his preface to his
booke of Ecclesiasticall Pollicy./
Sir
