An Account of LIVONIAForeword

To the READER.

THese Letters not being design’d to be expos’d to the Publick, when they were first writ there was little Care taken in the Method, Expression or Correctness of the style. And since no Account hath appeared as yet of those Countries by a more able Pen, from whence there is now an Expectation of some notable Events, from the successors of the same Princes, who formerly were Actors in those long and bloody scenes in Livonia; a sudden Resolution was taken to Print them, the time not permitting further Amendments, ’tis hop’d they will be Perused with a favourable Censure.