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| AN APPENDIX TO THE FORMER CHAPTER | 431 |
| THE THIRD CHAPTER | 432 |
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The order obserued in the description of Britaine, by reason of thenecessarie diuision thereof into bookes and chapters growing out ofthe varietie of matters therein conteined, seemed (in my iudgement) soconuenient a course deuised by the writer, as I was easilie inducedthereby to digest the historie of England immediatlie following into thelike method: so that as in the one, so likewise in the other, by summariecontents foregoing euerie chapter, as also by certeine materiall titlesadded at the head of euerie page of the said historie, it is a thing ofno difficultie to comprehend what is discoursed and discussed in thesame.
Wherein (sith histories are said to be the registers of memorie and themonuments of veritie) all louers of knowlege, speciallie historicall,are aduisedlie to marke (among other points) the seuerall and successiuealterations of regiments in this land: whereof it was my meaning to hauePag. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28, 49, 50, 51, of thedescription: and pag. 765, 766, of the historie of England.made an abstract, but that the same is sufficientlie handled in the firstbooke and fourth chapter of the description of Britaine; whereto if theseuenth chapter of the same booke be also annexed, there is litle or