A werke for housholders or for them ye haue the gydynge or gouernaunce of any company. Gadred [and] set forth by a professed brother of Syon Richard Whytforde. And newly corrected [and] prynted agayne w[ith] an addicion of policy for housholdynge, set forth also by the same brother.

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Imprint from colophon. G4r has caption title, reading: A breue, or shorte monicyon or counseyle of the cure [et] gouernau[n]ce of a housholde, accordyng vnto policye, taken out of a pystle of a great lerned man, called Bernarde syluestre, and put amo[n]ge the werkes of saynt bernarde, for bycause ye many done iudge and thynke it was his owne werke. Set forth by the same brother. The Bernardus portion is reprinted with minor alterations from STC 1967.5, a translation of: Bernard Silvestris. Epistola sa[n]cti Barnardi abbatis clareuallensis .. de bona gubernato[n]ne familie. Signatures: A-H⁴. Print show-through. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.