| Original | Expansion |
| y with supralinear e | ye (i.e., the) |
| accented q with semicolon | q[ue] |
| w with supralinear curve | w[ith] |
| e with sublinear hook | [ae] |
A macron over a vowel represents m or n, and is rendered as it appears in the original, e.g., cōprehēded = comprehended.
Pagination: This book was paginated using folio numbers in a recto-verso scheme. The front of each folio is the recto page (the right-hand page); the back of each folio is the verso page (the left-hand page in a book). In the original, folio numbers (beginning after the table of contents) are printed only on the recto side of each leaf. For the reader’s convenience, all folio pages in this e-book, including the verso pages, have been numbered in brackets according to the original format, with the addition of r for recto and v for verso, e.g., Fol. x.r is Folio 10 recto, Fol. x.v is Folio 10 verso.
Sources consulted: The uneven quality of the microfiche scans, as well as the blackletter font and some ink bleed-through and blemishes in the original, made the scans difficult to read in some places. To ensure accuracy, the transcriber has consulted the facsimile reprint edited by Francis R. Johnson (Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, New York, 1945). The 1945 reprint was prepared primarily from the Bodleian copy, with several pages reproduced from the copy in the Chapin Library at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, where the Bodleian copy was unclear.
¶ A booke cal-
led the Foundacion of Rhetorike, be-
cause all other partes of Rhetorike
are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette
forthe in an Oracion vpon questions,
verie profitable to bee knowen
and redde: Made by Ri-
chard Rainolde
Maister of
Arte,
of
the Uniuersitie of
Cambridge.
1563.
Mens. Marcij. vj.
¶ Imprinted at London, by
Ihon Kingston.
THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE
¶ To the right honorable and my singuler good Lorde,
my Lorde Robert Dudley, Maister of the
Queenes Maiesties horse, one of her highes pri-
uie Counsaile, and knight of the moste honou-
rable order of the Garter: Richard Rai-
nolde wisheth longe life, with
increase of honour.