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Another Edition. Fifteen-eighty-six.
The Honourable Repvtation of a Sovldier. .... By
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George Whetstone, Gent. De Eerweerdighe Achtbaerheyt
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Van Een Soldener.
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By Jan Faedts
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yacobszoon, ende Jan Bouwenszoon. Anno m.d.lxxxvi.
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vintse te coop by Thomas Basson Boeckvercoper
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Met Privilegie
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Blauwe steen.
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Collation. Tp., Ai.—Imprimatur, Aij.—Deds., A2-C3.—Verses, C4.
Envoy, I4.—Letterpress in double columns, English on left, Dutch on right.
—Sigs. in 4% A-I. There is a 2nd pt., sigs. K-N, with separate pag. and pref.,
consisting of a " Short introduction to English speech ", with the Dutch
translation. This ed. is rare ; the copy described is imperfeft.
it
Copies. B.JVL
Contents.
The 1st pt., the author calls "a compilation," and he describes
as meddling " no whit with Millitarie execution, but altogether with Morall
government, necessarie for a perfect soldier," exemplified from the Hves of
famous generals, Greek and Roman. It is, he says, "a member or small
parcell " of a larger book, entitled '* The English Mirour," too voluminous
for speedy publication.
33. [Fifteen-eighty-six.] Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester.
Lawes and Ordinances, set downe by Robert Earle of
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Leycester, the Queenes Maiesties Lieutenant
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forces in the Lowe
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and Captaine
General of her armie and Countries :
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and fit to be obserued by all such as shall serue her
Maiestie vnder him in the said Countries,
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and therefore to
be published and notified to the whole Armie. Imprinted at
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London by Christo- pher Barker, Printer )to the ^eenes most
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excellent Maiestie.
Black letter.
Collation.
Copies.
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Quarto.
Tp., A2.—Royal Arms, Aig.—Sigs. in 4% A-B3.—Rare.
B.M.
Contents. I have placed the date of printing at 1586, the year after
Leicester was sent to the Low Countries ; his " ordinances," says Digges,
were first printed in Leyden, January, 1586 (v. No. 25). In the commission
of a commander-in-chief, it was usual to insert
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a clause, authorizing him to