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A Briefe description of Ireland: made in this year, 1589, By Robert Payne

Author: Robert Payne

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Aquilla Smith

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix FärberProof corrections by Beatrix Färber, Janet Crawford

1. First draft.

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(2012)

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Text ID Number: E590001-007

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    Literature
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Aquilla Smith, A Brife description of Ireland: made in this yeere. 1589. By Robert Payne. vnto xxv. of his partners for whom he is undertaker there. Truely published verbatim, according to his letters, by Nich. Gorsan one of the said partners, for that he would his countrymen should be partakers of the many good Notes therein conteined. With diuers Notes taken out of others the Authoures letters written to his said partners, sithenes the first Impression, well worth the reading. in Tracts relating to Ireland, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society.. , Dublin, University Press, Graisberry and Gill (1841) volume 1page v–viii; 3–14 (separate pagination)

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Created: by Robert Payne (1590)

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Language: [EN] The text is in late sixteenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.

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