A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
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A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
GENEALOGICAL HISTORY of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, A.D. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper; ff. 39. XVIIth cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin "decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hic incipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, a...
1. EPITOME of English history, from 1066 to the accession of Elizabeth. f. 4. 2. Genealogy of the Saxon kings, from Egbert to Edgar the Ætheling; with arms in colours. f. 18. 3. Genealogy of the royal house of England, from William I. to Philip and Mary; with arms in colours. Continued, in a...
"GESTA BRITANNICA, præsortim Anglorum, adjectis aliquot observationibus, maxime in iis quæ, ad ecclesiam a temporibus retroactis ad A.D. mdcxlviii [Jan. 1648/9] spectant."The work, which is apparently autograph, is divided into ten books, the last three (ff. 211b-362) containing the reigns of Ja...
"BEHEMOTH, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England," 1640-1660; by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. At the end (f. 65), in a different band, is an exposition (incomplete) of the statute "22 and 23 Car. 2di cap. 10o , An Act for the better settling of Intestates estates." Paper; ff. 68. Late XVII...
"AN ALPHABETICAL MEMORANDUM-BOOK or Index, whereby several remarkable passages in Rapin's History of England (to the Revolution) may be easily turn'd to. Continued to the end of King William's Reign from another History, etc." With dedication by Charles Gibbon, 1 Mar. 1733 [4], to William, Duke ...
NOTES on Rapin's History of England by Philip Morant [1700- 1770], the historian of Essex, consisting of references to, and extracts from, the earlier chroniclers illustrating certain passages. In two volumes, bound in one, the first relating to British and Saxon times, the second to the reign o...
CATALOGUE, made by Humphrey Wanley (ob. 1726), of those chronicles and histories of England in the Cotton Collection which, at the time this catalogue was made, had not been printed; followed, on f. 25, by a similar list, made by the same, of chronicles already printed. Copy, apparently in the h...
THE ANNALS of Ireland in the time of Henry II., by Sir James Ware. With some verbal alterations, the matter agrees with the work first printed in 1705 under the title of The Annals of Ireland from the first Conquest by the English in the reign of King Henry II., etc. Imperfect; ending abruptly w...
"THE HISTORY Of the Execrable Irish Rebellion., trac'd from many preceding Acts, to the grand Eruption, the 23. of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII." The printed work, with its appendices, by Edmund Borlase, M.D., published anonymously in 1680; with numerous au...
