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William Lambard a Perambulation of Kent (Second Edition) London 1596 William Lambard A perambulation of Kent (second edition) London 1596 <i> <sig A> A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the De= scription, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Written in the yeere 1570 by William Lambarde of Lincolnes Inne Gent: first published in the yeere 1576. and now increa= sed and altered after the Authors owne last Copie. Imprinted at London, by Edm. Bollifant. 1596. <ii> <blank> <iii> To the Right woorshipfull, and vertuous, M. Thomas Wotton, Esquier. It is the manner (Right Woorshipfull) of such as seeke profit by Minerall, first to set men on woorke to digge and gather the Owre: Then by fire to trie out the Me= tall, and to cast it into certeine rude lumpes, which they call Sowze: And lastly to commit them to Artificers, that can thereof make things seruice= able and meete for vse. Somewhat after which sort, I my selfe, being very desirous to attaine to some knowledge and vnderstanding of the Antiquities of this Realme, which (as Metall conteined within the bowels of the earth) lie hidden in olde bookes hoorded vp in corners, did not onely my selfe digge and rake together whatsoe= uer I coulde of that kinde, but procured diuers of my friends also to set to their hands and doe the like. And when the matter was by our diligent trauaile growne (as me thought) to a conuenient Masse, with such fire of discretion as I had, I seuered the metall and drosse in sunder, and cast it into certeine rude, and vnformed Sowze, not vnmeete for a workeman. But, wheras no small commendation groweth to the metall, by the skil= <iv> full hand of the craftesman that bringeth it to fashion, and therefore the wiser sort of men vse to deliuer it to suche as be their craftes maisters, and can thereof make sundrie vtensiles both for pleasure and vtilitie: I contra= riwise, hauing neither good arte nor instrument to begin withall, nor yet approued patterne or Moald to imitate and follow, aduentured neuerthelesse to fashion somewhat out of my Sowze, and haue (as I now see) shaped such a peece, as is more meete to be condemned to the kitchen, than woorthy to be admitted, or haue place in the parlour. To speake plainly, I had some while since gathered out of diuers auncient and late Histories of this our Ilande, sundrie notes of such qualitie, as might serue for the de= scription and Storie of the most famous places thorowe out this whole Realme: which collection (bicause it was digested into Titles by order of Alphabet, and concer= ned the description of places) I called a Topographicall Dictionarie: and out of which, I meant in time (if God graunted life, abilitie, and leasure) to drawe (as from a certeine Store house) fit matter for each particular Shire and Countie. Now, after that it had pleased God to prouide for me in Kent, I resolued (for sundrie iust re= spectes) to begin first with that Shire, and therein (be= fore I would moue any further) to make estimation and triall, both of the thing it selfe, of mine owne abilitie, and of other mens likings. This when I had in a rude plot and rough sort perfour= med, and minded to communicate the same with some such of this Countrie, as for skill aboundantly could, and for good will indifferently would, weigh and peruse it, You (Right Worshipfull) came first to my minde, who, for the <v> good vnderstanding and interest that you haue in this Shire, can (as well as any other) discerne of this dooing, And to whom (beyond other) I thought my selfe for sundry great courtesies most deepely bound and indebted. I knowe right well, that the thing it selfe (being but a Bearewhelpe that lacketh licking: a rawe coloured por= tracture that wanteth ypoilshing: and a gifte, In quo censendum nil nisi dantis amor) is neither aunswerable to your woorthinesse, nor to mine owne wishe: Howbeit, hauing heertofore taken vn= doubted assay of your gentle acceptation, I am nothing afraide to offer it, Submitting to your fauourable Censure, both the worke, my selfe, and my writer, And commit= ting to the defence of the almightie, your selfe, your wife, your sonnes and familie. From Seintcleres, this last of Ianuarie, 1570. <31 Jan 1571> Yours in the Lorde, W. Lambard. <vi> <iii> To his Countriemen, the Gentlemen of the Countie of Kent. This Booke faire written (in gift) lately sent vn= to me, do I faire printed (by dedication) now send and commend vnto you. I knowe not (in respect of the place) vnto whom I may more fitly thus send it then vnto you, that are either bred and well brought vp here, or by the goodnesse of God and your owne good prouision, are well setled here: and here lawfully possesse, or are neere vnto sundrie of those things, that this booke specially speaketh of: and thus, as of your selfes, doe you see what they are now, and thus as of this booke, may you know why they were, and by whom they were, and what they were long agone. <iv> I knowe not (in respect of the persons,) vnto whom I may more fitly thus send it, than vnto you: with whom, I haue been best and longest acquainted: from whom (by points of singular courtesie) I haue beene many waies much pleasured: Toward whom, for the generall coniunction and association of your minds, and your selfes in good amitie and familiaritie, one toward another: and all, in good zeale toward the aduancement of Christian religion: and for the indifferent and discrete course ye keepe in handling and compoun= ding such controuersies, as many times fall (and therby in nourish= ing peace, a Iewel most precious) between your honest and tractable neighbours, (things vnto almightie God, very acceptable: vnto her Maiestie, very gratefull: vnto your countrie, very fruitfull: vnto your selfes, very commendable:) Towarde whom, I say, for these <v> causes which, as a member of this Countie with others I see ioy= fully and generally: and for the first two causes which deriued from you, light vpon me selfe particularly, I hane been, and am, and must be very louingly affected. I know not how I may more fitly and effectually commend it than to say, that it is in substance, an historie: treating of the parts (and actions of greatest weight a good time together, done by the most famous persons) of one special Countrie: fet from great antiquity, which many men are much delighted with: out of sundry bookes with great studie collected, painfully: by this author in the matter set out, truly: with good words well placed, eloquently. In commen= <vii> dation of this booke, vpon a fit occasion, the like in a manner, is in <vi> Latine lately written by a Gentleman of our Countrie, knowne to Alexander Ne= be very honest, and, I thinke, very well learned: and so vnder the uil, Norwicus. authoritie of his good iudgement, may I (without blame) the more boldly commend it vnto you. What vtilitie followeth the studie of Hystories, many of them haue well declared that haue published Histories written by them= selues, or haue set out Histories written by others. And therfore already sufficiently done, I neede not (vnlearned mee selfe, I can not) therein say much. And yet thus much I may breefly say, and fit for the thing I haue in hande (me thinketh) I must needes say, that (the sacred word of Almightie God alwaies excepted) there is nothing either for our instruction more profitable, or to our minds more delectable, or within the compasse of common vnder= <vii> standing more easie or facile, then the studie of histories: nor that studie for none estate more meet, then for the estate of Gentlemen: nor for the Gentlemen of Englande, no Historie so meete, as the Historie of England. For, the dexteritie that men haue either in prouiding for themselues, or in comforting their friends (two very good things) or in seruing their King and Countrie (of all outward things, the best thing) doth rest cheefly vpon their awne and other folkes experience: which I may assuredly accompt (for in an hy= Sir Thomas storie, in our toong as well written as any thing euer was, or I Moore Knight, thinke euer shall be, great experience deriued from a proofe of in the historie two such things, as prosperitie and aduersitie be, vpon a fit occasi= of King Richard on vnder the person of a very wise man, is rightly accounted) to be the thirde. the very mother and maistres of wisedome. Now that that a num= <viii> ber of folks doth generally, is much more then that, that any one of vs can do specially, and so by other folks experience, are we taught largely: and that, that other folkes for their King, their countrie, themselfes, their friends, like good men do vertuously, ought to prouoke vs with good deuotion inwardly to loue theim: and with good words openly much to commend them, and in their vertuous actions, rightly to folowe them. And that, that other folkes against their King, their countrie, their friends (and so against themselfes) like foolish men do ignorantly, or like leude men do wickedly, ought to moue vs first (as our neighbours) Christianly to bewaile them: and then (as by presidents of perill procured through their awne follies <viii> and faults) dutifully and wisely to beware by them. And so by these <ix> mens experience (which like the burnt childe, that then too late the fire dreadth, with much repentance they buy deerly) are we taught and brought out of danger to settle our selues, as it were, in a seat of suretie.
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