The First Complete Text on Rhetoric Composed in the English Language

The work in question was the first complete text on rhetoric composed in the english language. Some writers loved those types of words, and they peppered their books and manuscripts with lots of them. But other scholars hated them, because they thought that those type of words were pretentious and made the text unreadable. Two years after robert record's geometry text was published, we have one of the most definitive statements againstth use of these types of inkhorn terms  and in favor of plain english.