reporte of the death and martyrdome of
M. Campion Jesuite and Preiste, and M.
Sherwin and M. Bryan Preistes, at Tiborne
the first of December_ 1581, is this notice
at the end:--

``Good reader, pardon all faultes escaped
in the printing and beare with the
woorkmanship of a strainger.''

Many of Nicholas Breton's tracts were
issued surreptitiously, and he protested
that many pieces which he had never
written were falsely ascribed to him. _The
Bower of Delights_ was published without
the author's sanction, and the printer
(or publisher) Richard Jones made the
following address ``to the Gentlemen
Readers'' on the blunders which had
been made in the book:--

``Pardon mee (good Gentlemen) of my
presumption, & protect me, I pray you,

against those Cavellers and findfaults, that
never like of any thing that they see
printed, though it be never so well
compiled. And where you happen to find
fault, impute it to bee committed by the
Printers negligence, then (otherwise) by
any ignorance in the author: and