20 Sir Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum (1583), ed. Mary Dewar (Cambridge, 1982); William Harrison, The Description of England (1587), ed. Georges Edelen (Ithaca, 1968); Sir Thomas Wilson, “The State of England, 1600,” ed. F. J. Fisher, CS 3d ser. 52 (1936), 18-25. Some parts of Harrison’s account (which appeared earlier in another form) were copied by Smith; parts of Smith and Harrison were borrowed by Wilson. Each author added many passages of his own invention.
21 Smith, De Republica Anglorum, 64, 76.
22Ibid., 20.