ABSTRACT
Thesecond Address' To the Reader' and the textual additions The two printings of the Regiment (1574 and 1577) were exhausted by 1580, but as the book had proved successful the author was now given the opportunity of supervising a new edition. He used it (asalready explained) to disclaim the second imprint, on the grounds that he was not told about it or asked to seeit through the press. His complaint is made in the opening ofa second Address To The Reader (p. 292). The earlier Address, together with the Dedication to the Lord High Admiral, appears unchanged, as does the Calendrical material and other Tables, save that the years 1574-8 are omitted from the list which gives the Prime, Epact, Dominical Letter and Moveable Feasts down to 1603. The time-table of Law Terms and 'Returns' was, ofcourse, unchanged, and it may be noted that in some details it supplements the information to be found in Cheney's Handbook ofDates (R. Hist. Soc., 1945), the author of which did not have the opportunity to consult any Elizabethan almanac.
