Precepts, or, Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertisements added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes

Author/creator Burghley, William Cecil
Other author Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.
Other author Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage attributed name.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed [by Thomas Harper] for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in the Strand, neare Yorke House, 1636.
Description[14], 144 p., plate : port.
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Uniform titleCertaine precepts
Variant title Certaine precepts.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteAn expanded version of: Certaine precepts.
General notePrinter's name from colophon.
General noteIn two parts; pagination and register are continuous.
General note"A glasse wherein those enormities and foule abuses may most evidently bee seen, which are the destruction and overthrow of every Christian common-wealth", a translation of "De duodecim abusionum gradibus", sometimes attributed to St. Augustine and to St. Cyprian, has separate dated title page; reprinted from STC 84.5.
General noteImperfect: tightly bound, with considerable loss of text; pp. 8-47 from Folger Shakespeare Library copy filmed at end.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
References STC (2nd ed.) 4899.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1167:02)
Other title De duodecim abusionum gradibus. English.
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