The gouernement of all estates, wherein is contayned the perfect way to an honest life gathered out of many learned authors, a boke right profitable for all estates, but especiallie for the trayning [and] bringing vp of the yonger sort: written in Latin by that excellent learned man Andreus Hesse, translated into Englishe.

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Signed at end by translator: N. Boorman. "Howe a man may attaine to the chiefe pointes of Christianitie, or deduction of a Christian life" by Adriaan van Baarland has caption title on M8r. The modern attribution to Archbishop Herman IV is erroneous; in the preface the authors of the 2 sections are identified as Hermannus Hessus (i.e H. Schottenius, called Hessus) and Adrianus (i.e H.C.) Barlandus. In the first section excerpts from Latin poets are rendered in English verse--STC. Colophon varies: undated or dated. In this copy the colophon is undated. Last leaf blank?. Signatures: A⁴ B-Q R⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.