Cyprian Lucar

It is dedicated ' to the right worshipfull his brother-in-law Maister William Roe, esquier, and alderman of the honorable citie of London.' This dedicatory epistle is a well writ and close stile. He expresseth himselfe short and cleare and to have been a publick-spirited and a good man as well as learned and ingenious. He dates it ' From my house in London the day of May in the yeare of the creation of the world 5552, and in the yeare of our redemption 1590.