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Title: Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue
A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles

Author: Alexander Hume

Editor: Henry B. Wheatley

Release Date: November 4, 2005 [EBook #17000]

Language: English

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{Transcriber's Note:

All material in parentheses () or square brackets [], including the
(_sic_) notations, is from the 1865 original. Material added by the
transcriber is in braces {}.
Greek words have been transliterated and shown between +symbols+.
Single Greek letters are identified by name: _eta_, _alpha_.
o: and e: represent omega and eta.
"i" represents upside-down i (used in I.3.6).
{gh} represents yogh (used in I.4.10).
{L} represents the "pounds" symbol.
Letters with diacritics are "unpacked" and shown within braces:
{a'} {e`} a with acute accent, e with grave accent
Irregularities in chapter numbering are explained at the end of the
editor's Notes.}

OF THE

ORTHOGRAPHIE AND CONGRUITIE

OF THE BRITAN TONGUE

A Treates, noe shorter then necessarie,

for the Schooles,

Be

ALEXANDER HUME.

Edited from the Original MS. in the British Museum,
by
HENRY B. WHEATLEY.

LONDON:
Published for the Early English Text Society,
by Truebner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row.
MDCCCLXV.

HERTFORD:
Printed by Stephen Austin.

PREFACE.

The following Tract is now printed for the first time from the original
Manuscript in the old Royal Collection in the Library of the British
Museum (Bibl. Reg. 17 A. xi). It is written on paper, and consists of
forty-five leaves, the size of the pages being 5-3/4 in. by 3-3/4 in.
The dedication, the titles, and the last two lines, are written with a
different coloured ink