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THE

HISTORIE OF ENGLAND,

FROM

THE TIME THAT IT WAS FIRST INHABITED,

VNTILL

THE TIME THAT IT WAS LAST CONQUERED:

WHEREIN THE SUNDRIE ALTERATIONS OF THE STATEVNDER FORREN PEOPLE IS DECLARED;
AND OTHER MANIFOLD OBSERVATIONS REMEMBRED:

BY RAPHAEL HOLINSHED


NOW NEWLIE READ OVER, AND DILIGENTLIE DIGESTED INTO BOOKES AND CHAPTERS,
WITH THEIR SEUERALL ARGUMENTS PREFIXED, CONTEINING AN ABRIDGEMENT
OF THE WHOLE HISTORIE, FOR THE HELPE OF THE READERS
IUDGEMENT AND MEMORIE:

WITH TWO TABLES OF PARTICULARS,

THE ONE SERVING THE DESCRIPTION, THE OTHER THE HISTORIE:

BY ABRAHAM FLEMING.


LAUS HISTORIÆ EX I. LELANDO.

QUOD SOL ÆTHEREO PRÆSTAT PULCHERRIMUS ORDI,
HISTORIA HUMANIS VBIBUS HOC TRIBUIT.





Contents

 Page
THE FIRST CHAPTER427
THE SECOND CHAPTER428
AN APPENDIX TO THE FORMER CHAPTER431
THE THIRD CHAPTER432




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TO

THE READERS STUDIOUS IN HISTORIES.



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

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