一般注記At head of title: William Stafford.
English original first printed in 1581 under title: A compendious or briefe examination of certayne ordinary complaints, of diuers of our country men in these our dayes.
Ascribed to William Stafford in Wood's Fasti Oxonienses, but more probably by John Hales, cf. the ed. by E. Lamond, 1893: A discourse of the common weal of this realm of England.
Abridged text based on the first German translation by Johannes Hoops, ed. by Emanuel Leser and pub. in 1895.