Your friend as one vnacquainted hetherto may be, &c.
THE SECOND PART OF the English Secretorie.
=As I haue already exampled vnto you all sortes of |Epistles|, contained vnder the two titles of |Demonstratiue|, and |Deliberatiue|: So by the order and disposition formerlie vsed, it behooueth (as nexte in course) I doe nowe come vnto the title |Iudiciall|. Why this title is so called, I haue in that other booke alreadie deliuered. So that nowe it may séeme fit, that herein as in the other twaine before going, we deliberate what order and places for the well handling and proper conueyance of |Epistles|, are principallie to be obserued.=
=You shall then vnderstand, that for so much as the efficacie of this title is wholie caried in cause of |Accusation|, |Inuectiue|, |Charge|, or |defence|, the matters whereof are wholie censured by lawe, by common reputation, by custome, by authoritie or by iudgement, the |Rhetoricians|, for the more excellent setting foorth of the |Oratoriec| partes hereof, haue vnto the generalitie of the same, allotted thrée states or principall heades, whereout by imitation, all our |Epistles| vnder this title are wholie to be caried. The first is called |Coniecturall|, that is, where a matter by coniecture onlie of time, place, estate, or condition of the person, or other likelihoodes to the same agréeing, may be supposed or enforced.=
=The second is |Iuridicial|, wherein not by coniecture, but by matter in action, sentence, lawe, or iudgemente, wee aggrauate the cause in question, in which remaineth the qualitie, circumstance, or greatnes to be decided, and howe vehementlie or slenderlie it hurteth or importeth.=
=The third is tearmed _Legitima_, which by |Lawes|, customes, common vsage, or |allowance|, defineth a thing to bee good or bad, tolerable or not to be suffered. Out of these heades ariseth the plentie of all our following diuisions, which also hereafter are in their places to be collected, the first whereof, containing matter of |Accusation| or |Charge|, may be saide to be |Accusatorie|, |Expostulatorie|, |Exprobratorie|, |Comminatorie| and |Inuectiue|. The Second, beeing |Responsorie| to either of these, may be saide to be |Excusatorie|, |Purgatorie|, |Defensorie| or |Deprecatorie|. The compasse aswell of the one as the other, either for matters |accused, obiected, purged, excused, entreated for|, or |Defended|, are simply or wholie included vnder all or one of these heads before remembred.=