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To the Readers studious in histories.

_THe order obserued in the description of Britaine, by reason of the necessarie diuison thereof into bookes and chapters growing our of the varietie of matters therein conteined, seemed (in my iudgement) so conuenient a course deuised by the writer, as I was easilie in|duced thereby to digest the historie of England immediatlie following into the like method: so that as in the one, so likewise in the other, by summarie contents foregoing euerie chapter, as also by certeine materiall titles added at the head of euerie page of the said historie, it is a thing of no difficultie to com|prehend what is discoursed and discussed in the same.