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 advertiseme[n]ts 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 - Cecil, William 1520-1598 (Printed [by Thomas Harper] for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in the Strand, neare Yorke House, 1637)
"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. - An expanded version of: Certaine precepts. - In two parts; pagination and register are continuous. - Printer's name from STC. - Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 4900. - The first leaf and the last leaf are blank