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TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

ROBERT DUDLEY.

BARON OF DENBIGH.

EARLE OF LEICESTER, KNIGHT OF THE NOBLE
ORDER OF THE GARTER, AND S. MICHAELS,
MASTER OF THE QUEENES MAJESTIES
HORSE, AND ONE OF HER PRIVY COUNCELL, HIGH CHAUN-
CELLOUR OF THE
VNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

My singular good Lord,

That my travaile into Ireland, might seeme neither causlesse, nor fruitlesse, I have thought it expedient, being one member of your Lordships honorable charge to yeeld you this poore book, as an accompt of my poore voyage, happily not the last, nor the most beautifull present that is intended to you Honour by me, but surely more full of unsavoury toyle for the time, then any plot of worke that ever I attempted, which I write, not of vanity to commend my diligence, but of necessitie to excuse mine imper-