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 TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

THOMAS LO: VISCOVNT VVENTFVORTH,

LO: DEPVTY GENERALL

OF

IRELAND.

two Bookes (right Honorable) now published for the common benefit, I doe here humbly offer to your Lordships view, as containing Annales and other worthy memorialls of this Kingdome, whereof it hath pleased his most Excellent Majesty to constitute you the Governor. And how-ever it cannot be denyed, that the judicious eye may discerne, especially in Campion, many slips, through want of necessary instructions, yet in regard of the great light which els-where these Histories doe affoord to the knowledge of former times, and the good use which may be made of them by any who have leisure, desire, and ability to erect and polish a