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To the Reader.
IN this work I can challenge nothing to my self, but the composing of it. The materialls were found to my hand: which if any Historian will make, let him not be commended forwit, but sha∣med for falshood. If every where I have not charged the margin with the Authours names, it is either be∣cause the storie is authour for itself (I mean, generally recei∣ved) or to avoyd the often citing of the same place. Where I could not go abroad myself, there I have taken air at the win∣dow, and have cited Authours on others citations; yet so that the stream may direct to the fountain.
If the Reader may reap in few houres what cost me more moneths, just cause have I to rejoyce, and he (I hope) none to complain. Thus may the faults of this book redound to my self, the profit to others, the glory to God.