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An HISTORY of the MITRED PARLIAMENTARY ABBIES and CONVENTUAL CATHEDRAL CHURCHES: shewing the Times of their respective Foundations, and what Alterations they have undergone; with some Descriptions of their Monuments, and Dimensions of their Buildings: together with a Catalogue of their Abbats, Priors, &c. By BROWNE WILLIS, Esq. In Two Volumes. Octavo. Lond. 1718, 1719.

*There are LARGE PAPER copies of this work. Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica: or, A Collection of the Antiquities of the English Franciscans, or Friers Minors, commonly call'd Gray Friers. In Two Parts. With an Appendix concerning the English Nuns of the Order of St. Clare. By A. PARKINSON. Quarto. Lond. 1726.

British Monachism: or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England. To which are added, I. Peregrinatorium Religiosum; or Manners and Customs of antient Pilgrims. II. Consuetudinal of Anchorets and Hermits. III. Account of the Continentes, or Women who had made Vows of Chastity. IV. Four Select Poems, in various Styles. By THOMAS DUDLEY FOSBROOKE, M.A. F.S.A. With Plates. Quarto. Lond. 1817.

There are LARGE PAPER copies of this Second Edition, which was originally published in Two Volumes, octavo, in 1802. Some Account of the Alien Priories, and of such Lands as they are known to have possessed in England and Wales. Collected from the MSS. of John Warburton, Esq. and Dr. Ducarel. A new Edition, in Two Volumes. Illustrated with Plates. tavo. Lond. 1786.

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Memoirs of the Antiquities of Great Britain; with an Account of
Monasteries, Monks, &c. Plates. Octavo. Lond. 1723.

SEPULCHRAL HISTORY.

Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great
Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the dissolued
Monasteries therein contained: their Founders, and what eminent
Persons have beene in the same interred. Composed by the
Studie and Trauels of JOHN WEEVER, with an Index. Folio.
London, 1631.

N.B. There are LARGE PAPER Copies of this Edition.
*** Reprinted in Quarto in 1767.

Monumenta Anglicana; being Inscriptions on the Monuments of
several eminent Persons deceased in or since the Year 1650, to
the End of the Year 1718; deduced into a Series of Time by
way of Annals. By JOHN LE NEVE, Gent. Five Volumes.
Octavo. Lond. 1718, 1717, 1719.

There are LARGE PAPER copies of this work. SEPULCHRAL MEMORIALS in Great Britain applied to illustrate the

History of Families, Manners, Habits, and Arts at the different
Periods from the Norman Conquest to the Seventeenth Century;
with introductory Observations. (By RICHARD GOUGH, Esq.
F.S.A.) Three Volumes usually bound in Five, Plates. Folio.
Lond. 1786-1796.

Nenia Britannica: or, A Sepulchral History of Great Britain, from
the earliest Period to its general Conversion to Christianity. In-
cluding a complete Series of the British, Roman, and Saxon Se-
pulchral Rites and Ceremonies, with the Contents of several
Hundred Burial Places opened under a careful Inspection of the
Author; tending to illustrate the early Part of, and to fix on a
more unquestionable Criterion for the Study of Antiquity. To
which are added Observations on the Celtic, British, Roman, and
Danish Barrows discovered in Great Britain. By the Rev. JAMES
DOUGLAS, F.A.S. Plates. Folio. Lond. 1793.

There are copies on LARGE PAPER, the Plates in Colours. Illustration of the Tumuli or ancient Barrows; exhibiting the Principles which determined the Magnitude and Position of each, and their systematic Connection with other Vestiges of equal Antiquity. By THOMAS STACKHOUSE. With a folded Sketch of Barrows. Octavo. Lond. 1806.

Monumental Effigies of Great Britain; consisting of Etchings from Figures executed by the Sculptor, and introduced into our Cathedrals and Churches as Memorials of the Dead, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of K. Henry the Eighth. Drawn and etched by C. A. STOTHARD Jun. Quarto. Now in course of publication, 1817.

There are LARGE PAPER copies.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND.
BRITANNIA: sive florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ,
et Hiberniæ, et Insularum adjacentium ex intima Antiquitate
Chorographia Descriptio. Authore GUL. CAMDENO. Lond. 1586
and 1587. Octavo.-Reprinted in Quarto in 1590, 1594, and 1600.
-In Folio, at London, in 1607, and at Amsterdam in 1648 and
1659.
Britain: or A Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing
Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and the Islands adjoining, out
of the Depth of Antiquity; beautified with Maps of the several
Shires of England. Written first in Latin by William Camden,
and translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND, Dr in Phy-
sick. Folio. Lond. 1610 and 1637.

Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and
Ireland, together with the adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by
WILLIAM CAMDEN, Clarenceux King at Arms; and translated
into English, with Additions and Improvements, by EDMUND
GIBSON, D.D. late Lord Bishop of London. This Fourth Edi-

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tion is printed from a Copy of 1722, left corrected by the Bishop for the Press. In Two VOLUMES. Folio. Lond. 1772.

Originally printed in One Volume, folio, in 1695; in Two Volumes in 1722 and 1753. There are LARGE PAPER copies of each edition.

Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjacent, from the earliest Antiquity. By WILLIAM CAMDEN. Translated from the Edition published by the Author in MDCVII. 12.0.0. Sir A.RS.S. In Three Volumes. Illustrated with Maps and other Enlarged by the latest Discoveries by RICHARD GOUGH, F.A. 10.10.0 Pollect Copper-plates. Folio. Lond. 1789.-Reprinted in Four Volumes in 1806, of which Edition there are copies on Fine Paper.

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A Discoverie of certaine Errours published in print in the much commended Britannia, 1594, very preiudicial to the Discentes and Successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme. By RALPHE BROOKE, Yorke Herault at Armes. To which are added the learned Mr. Camden's Answer to this Book; and Mr. Brooke's Reply. Now first published from an original Manuscript in the Library of John Anstis, Esq. Garter King at Arms. Portrait of the Author, and the Monument of Camden. Quario. Lond. 1724. -Originally printed in 1599 in Quarto.

Descriptio Britanniæ, Scotia, Hyberniæ, et Orchadum, ex libro Pauli Jovii, episcopi Nucer. de Imperiis et Gentibus cogniti Orbis, cum ejus operis prohoemio, ad Alexandrum Farnesium Card. ampliss. Quarto. Venet. 1448, and Bas. 1561, duodecimo. Magnæ Britanniæ Delicia seu Insularum et Regnorum quæ Magnæ Britanniæ nomine, et sereniss. Regis Jacobi, &c. imperio hodie comprehenduntur, Descriptio: ex variis auctoribus collecta, et reliquarum Europa Nationum jam ante editis Deliciis addita. (Auctore GASP. EUs.) Duodecimo. Colon. 1613.

RUTGERI HERMANNIDE Britannia Magna, sive Angliæ, Scotiæ,
Hiberniæ, et adjacentium Insularum Geographico-Historica De-
scriptio. Duodecimo. Amstel. 1661.

POLY-OLBION : or, A Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts,
Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned
Isle of Great Britaine; with Intermixture of the most remarkable
Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commo-
dities of the same. Digested in a Poem by MICHAELL DRAY-
TON, Esq. Folio.

London: Printed for M. Lownes, J. Browne, J. Helme, J. Busbie.
With a Frontispiece, whole-length Portrait of Henry
Prince of Wales, engraved by William Hole, and Maps.
To the Second Edition, 1622, were added Twelve Books, descri-
bing the East and North Parts of the Island. Reprinted in a

folio Edition of Drayton's Works in 1748, and in an octavo Edition in Four Volumes, in 1753.

The History of the Worthies of England. Endeavoured by THO

MAS FULLER, D.D. With a Portrait of the Author, by D. Log- al

gan. Folio. Lond. 1662.

An Abridgement and Continuation was published in octavo in 1684, intitled" Anglorum Speculum; or The Worthies of England in Church and State, by G. S."

*.* The original Work was reprinted in Two Volumes, quarto, in 1811, with a few explanatory Notes, by John Nichols, F.A.S. Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova: or A New Survey of Great Britain; wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr. Cambden, and the late Editors of his Britannia, is added a more large History, not only of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes mentioned by them, but also of many other Places of Note, and Antiquities since discovered. Collected and composed by an impartial Hand*. In SIX VOLUMES. Quarto. Lond. in the Savoy, 1720-1731.

Magna Britannia: being a concise Topographical Account of the
several Counties of Great Britain. By the Rev. DANIEL LY-
SONS, Rector of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire; and SAMUEL
LYSONS, Esq. Keeper of His Majesty's Records in the Tower of
London. Plates. Quarto. Lond. 1813-1817.

Seven Parts are already published, of which there are copies on LARGE PAPER.

ENGLAND DESCRIBED: or The several Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled; some Things also premised, to set forth the Glory of this Nation. By EDWARD LEIGH, Esquire, Mr of Arts of Magdalen Hall, in Oxford. Octavo. Lond. 1659.

BRITANNIA: or, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Isles and Territories thereunto belonging. By RICHARD BLOME. Folio. Lond. 1672. ANGLIA REDIVIVA; being a full Description of all the Shires, Cities, principal Towns and Rivers in England; with some useful Observations concerning what is most remarkable, whether in relation to their Antiquity, Situation, Buildings, Traffick, or Inhabitants. Collected by Mr. DUNSTAR. Duodecimo. Lond. 1699. Britannia Baconica: or, The Natural Rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales, according as they are to be found in every Shire: historically related, according to the Precepts of the Lord Bacon; and the Causes of many of them philosophically attempted: by J. CHILDREY. Small octavo. Lond. 1661.

Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland; being an Account of many remarkable Per

* The Rev. Thos. Cox, Vicar of Bromfield, Essex.

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sons and Places; and likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes,
Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders, and other
considerable Occurrences and Accidents, for several hundred
Years past with the natural and artificial Rarities in every
County, and many other observable Passages, as they are re-
corded by credible Historians of former and latter Ages. By
RICHARD BURTON. A new Edition, with additional Wood-cut
Portraits, and a copious Index. Quarto. Westminster, 1811.
N. B. There are LARGE PAPER copies of this Edition.
** Originally printed in duodecimo.

·Firma Burgi: or, An Historical Essay concerning the Cities, Towns,
and Buroughs of England; taken from Records. By THOMAS
MADOX, Esq. His Majesty's Historiographer. Folio. Lond. 1726.
There are LARGE PAPER copies of this volume.
British Curiosities in Art and Nature; giving an Account of Rari-
ties both ancient and modern; viz. Monuments, Monasteries,
Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman
Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of
Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, No-
blemen's Seats, &c. To which is added a very useful Scheme,
containing a brief Account of the State of each County in En-
gland at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet,
to fold up or put in a Frame. Duodecimo. Lond. 1728.
Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de l'Irlande, où sont exacte-
ment décrites les Antiquités, les Provinces, les Villes, les Bour-
gades, les Montagnes, les Rivières, avec les Ports de Mer, les
Bains, les Forteresses, Abbayes, Eglises, Academies, &c. Par
JEAN BEEVEREL; le tout enrichi de tres belles Figures et Cartes
Géographiques dessinées sur les Originaux. Nouvelle Edition,
retouchée, corregée, et augmentée. Eight Volumes. Duodecimo.
Leyden, 1727.

New Survey of England; wherein the Defects of Camden are sup-
plied, and the Errors of his Followers remarked; the Opinions
of our Antiquaries compared; the Roman Military Ways traced;
and the Station settled according to the Itinerary, without alter-
ing the Figures; with some Natural History of each County.
By N. SALMON. In Two Volumes. Octavo. Plates. Lond. 1731.
The Agreeable Historian: or Complete English Traveller; giving
a Geographical Description of every County in Great Britain,
with the Antiquities of the same. By SAMUEL SIMPSON. In
Three Volumes. Octavo. Lond. 1746.

England and Wales described in a Series of Letters, by W. TOL-
DERVY. With Plates. Octavo. Lond. 1762.

England Illustrated: or, A Compendium of the Natural History,
Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Ci-
vil, of England and Wales; with Maps of the several Counties,

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