A generall rehearsall of warres, called Churchyardes choise wherein is fiue hundred seuerall seruices of land and sea as seiges, battailes, skirmiches, and encounters. A thousande gentle mennes names, of the beste sorte of warriours. A praise and true honour of soldiours. A proofe of perfite nobilitie. A triall and first erection of heraldes. A discourse of calamitie. And ioyned to the same some tragedies & epitaphes, as many as was necessarie for this firste booke. All which workes are dedicated to the hounourable sir Christopher Hatton knight, ... Written by Thomas Churchyard Gent. 1579.
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- A generall rehearsall of warres, called Churchyardes choise wherein is fiue hundred seuerall seruices of land and sea as seiges, battailes, skirmiches, and encounters. A thousande gentle mennes names, of the beste sorte of warriours. A praise and true honour of soldiours. A proofe of perfite nobilitie. A triall and first erection of heraldes. A discourse of calamitie. And ioyned to the same some tragedies & epitaphes, as many as was necessarie for this firste booke. All which workes are dedicated to the hounourable sir Christopher Hatton knight, ... Written by Thomas Churchyard Gent. 1579.
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- Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.
- Publication
- Imprinted at London :: By [John Kingston for] Edward White, dwellyng at the little north-doore of S. Paules Churche, at the signe of the Gunne,
- [1579]
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- Military history, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.
- Military history, Modern -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800.
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"A generall rehearsall of warres, called Churchyardes choise wherein is fiue hundred seuerall seruices of land and sea as seiges, battailes, skirmiches, and encounters. A thousande gentle mennes names, of the beste sorte of warriours. A praise and true honour of soldiours. A proofe of perfite nobilitie. A triall and first erection of heraldes. A discourse of calamitie. And ioyned to the same some tragedies & epitaphes, as many as was necessarie for this firste booke. All which workes are dedicated to the hounourable sir Christopher Hatton knight, ... Written by Thomas Churchyard Gent. 1579." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18737.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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To the right honourable my most assured freend, sir Christopher Hatton Knight vize chamberlaine to the Queenes Maiestie, and one of her highnesse priuie Counsaill:
Thomas Churchyarde wisheth as greate good For∣tune and worldly felicitie, as he desi∣reth heauenlie blessyng. - To the freendly reader.
- Churchyardes Choise.
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And abstracte of the aucthoritie, and entertaine∣mente, that was giuen and committed by the ho∣nourable sir Henry Sidney Knight, Lorde De∣putie of Irelande: to sir Humfrey Gilbert knight, duryng the tyme of his continuaunce and seruice in
Munster, in Irelande. Written to showe how that seuere and straight handely of rebellious peo∣ple, reformes them sooner to obedience, then any courteous dealyng: because the stiffe necked must be made to stoupe, with extremitie of Iustice, and stoute behauiour. - ¶A Mirrhor for rebelles to looke into, where the death of one Roorie Oge in Ire∣lande (whose life was alwaies without order) doeth shewe that the reward of vice is euer open shame, and a foule ende.
- ¶A small rehersall of some speciall seruices in Flaunders of late, part whereof were in the tyme of Don Ihons gouernment and the reste beyng doen in the present seruice of the Prince of Parma, now go∣uernour of Flaunders.
- ¶A description or discourse, that declareth how that by tastyng of miseries, men be∣come happie: written for that Soldiours al∣waies beares the burthen of Sorrowe, and suffers more calamitie then any other people.
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A pitefull complaint, in maner of a Tragedie, of Seignior Anthonio dell Don∣daldoes wife, somtyme in the duke of
Florences Courte: Translated out of Italian prose, and putte into Englishe verse. - A heauie matter of a Englishe gen∣tleman, and a gentlewoman, in maner of a Tragedie: whiche gentlewo∣man called her freende the wan∣deryng Prince.
- A Pirates Tragedie, beyng a gen∣tleman of a verie good house: Made at the re∣quest of Maister Peter Caroe, Capitaine of Laughlin in Irelande: and fette out to shewe the mise∣rable life of a Rouer, whose wretched desire of other mens goodes, bringes open shame, and a violente death.
- A Letter sent from the noble Erle of Ormondes house at Kilkennie, to the honourable sir Henry Sidney, then Lorde Deputie, and liyng at Rorke, in Irelande.
- The Epitaphe of the rare ver∣tuous Prince (and towardes Impe of grace) Kyng Edward the sixte.
- The Epitaphe of the worthie Erle of Essex.