I. Casauboni Exercitationes ad Baronii Annales. Genevæ, 1654,
4to.
Pagi Critica in Annales Baronii. Lut. Par. 1689, fol.
Cave’s Scriptorum Eccles. Hist. Lit. London, 1688, in 2 vols.
folio.
Cave’s Antiquitates Apostolicæ. Lond. 1677, in 2 vols. folio;
and Primitive Christianity. Lond. 1675, 8vo.
Historia Ecclesiastica Centuriatorum Magdeburgensium. Basileæ,
1624, in 3 vols. folio.
Codex Theodosianus, 1665, 4 vols. folio.
Gibson’s Codex, in 2 vols. folio.
Corpus Juris Canonici. Taurini, 1620, 3 vols. folio.
Durandi Speculum Juris. Francof. 1592, folio.
Ecton’s Thesaurus. 1766, 4to.
Howell’s Synopsis Canonum.
Geddes’s Church History of Æthiopia and Malabar.
Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity.
The Legenda Aurea. Coloniæ, 1485, folio.
Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History.
Osiandri Epitome Hist. Eccles. Tubingæ, 1607, in 4 vols. 4to.
Spondani Annales Sacri. Lut. Par. 1660, 5 vols. fol.
Tornielli Annales Sacri. Antv. 1620, in 2 vols. folio.
Usserii Annales. Lond. 1650-54, 2 vols. folio.
Waddingi Annales Minorum. Lugd. 1625, in 4 vols. folio.
Warner’s Ecclesiastical History. London, 1756, 2 vols. folio.
The Annals of Scottish Episcopacy.
Alfordi Annales Eccles. Britan. Leodii, 1663, in 4 vols. folio.
Bedæ, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Lovanii, 1566, 12mo.
Cantabrigiæ, 1644, folio.
Burnet’s History of the Reformation. London, 1679, in 3 vols.
folio.
Concertatio Ecclesiæ Catholicæ in Angliâ. Aug. Trev. 1588, 4to.
Cosins’ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Politeia. Oxonii, 1634, 4to.
Churton’s Life of Dean Nowell.
Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey.
Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum. Lond. 1655, &c. 3 vols. folio.
Fox’s Acts and Monuments of the Church. London, 1632, in 3
vols. folio.
Godwin, de Præsulibus Angliæ. Cantabrigiæ, 1743, folio.
Gough, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia. Londini, 1661, 8vo.
Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio.
Heylin’s History of the Reformation. London, 1661, folio.
Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ.
Lyndewode, Provinciale. Antv. 1525, and Oxon. 1679, folio.
Mac Crie’s Life of Knox.
Parker De Antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ. Hanoviæ, 1605, folio.
Parker De Archiep. Cantuar. Londini, 1729, folio.
Reyner’s Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ. Duaci, 1626,
folio.
Skinner’s Ecclesiastical History of Scotland.
Spotiswode’s History of the Church of Scotland. London, 1668,
folio.
Southey’s Life of Wesley, and Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.
Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ. Lond. 1685, fol.
Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. London, 1709, 4 vols. folio.
Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials. London, 1721, 3 vols. folio.
Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. Londini, 1744, folio.
Usserii Eccles. Britan. Antiquitates. Eblanæ, 1639, 4to.
Walker’s History of Independency. London, 1661, 4to.
Whartoni Anglia Sacra. Londini, 1691, in 2 vols. fol.
Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography.
Of Foreign History in general this Library possesses few works of any
importance; the principal works being Bayle’s Dictionary; Banduri
Imperium Orientale; Brabantiæ Monumenta Sepulchralia; Historiæ
Byzantinæ Scriptores per Phil. Labbeum, Parisiis, 1648-50, in 21 vols.
folio; Cluverii Italia, Sicilia, et Germania Antiqua; Freheri Rerum
Germanicarum Scriptores, Francos. 1600, folio; Grimstone’s History of
the Netherlands; Du Halde’s History of China; Guicciardini, Belgicæ
Descriptio; Gyllii Constantinopoleos Topographia; Herreræ, Descriptio
Indiæ Occidentalis; Heylin’s Cosmography; The Universal History, in
7 vols. folio; Laurenbergii Græcia Antiqua; Grævii Antiquitates;
Montfaucon’s Antiquities, and other Works; Marsden’s Sumatra; Maurice’s
Indian Antiquities; Mitford’s History of Greece; Pocockii Specimen
Historiæ Arabum; Pontani Bohemia pia; Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625,
in 5 vols. folio, a very fine clean copy, bound in calf; Robertson’s
History of America, and Charles V.; Watson’s Philip II.; Hallam’s Middle
Ages; Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Sandys’ Travels,
and Europæ Speculum; Stuart’s Athens, incomplete; The Ionian Antiquities,
and Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra; Six volumes of De Bry’s Voyages; Simsoni
Chronicon Catholicum, & Wormii Monumenta Danica.
To the above may be added, Churchill’s collection of Voyages and Travels
in 6 vols. folio. Bruce’s Travels. Pinkerton’s, and other works of
Geography, and the Chronological researches of Beverigius, Bucherius,
Carion, Cary, Calvisius, Fulcius, Helvicus, Isaacson, Marsham, Petavius,
Pezron, Newton, Perizonius, Paludinus, Robinson, Scaliger, Simson,
Strauchius and Ussher; with Hale’s Analysis of Ancient Chronology; all
of them very material “helps to history.” To which I may add Chalmers’
Biographical Dictionary, and Brady’s Clavis Calendaria.
Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, I have
much pleasure in being enabled to afford the reader a pretty copious
selection; commencing with the Records of the Kingdom published under the
authority of the Parliamentary Commission; and the Histories of England
by Brady, Echard, Hume, Macauley, and Rapin. To these may be added,
Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana. Basileæ, 1555, folio.
Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam præcipui: edente Savile.
1596, folio.
Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum. Francof. 1601,
folio; & Londini, 1570, folio.
Florentii Wigorniensis Chronicon. Francof. 1601, folio.
Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, &c. à veteribus scripta, è
Bibliothecâ Gulielmi Camdeni. Francof. 1603, folio.
Eadmeri Historia Novorum. Londini, 1623, folio.
Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana per Wats. Lond. 1640, folio.
Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem per Rogerum Twysden.
Londini, 1652, folio.
Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores Vetustiores. Heidelb. 1587,
folio.
Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Veteres, à Fell. Oxonii, 1684,
folio.
Historiæ Britannicæ Scriptores XX, à Tho. Gale. Oxonii, 1698,
in two vols. folio.
Buchanani Rerum Scoticarum Historia. Edinb. 1582, folio.
Camdeni Annales. Londini, 1615, folio.
Baker’s Chronicle of the Kings of England. London, 1674, folio.
Bates, Elenchus Motuum in Angliâ. Londini, 1663, 8vo.
Brand on Popular Antiquities. 2 vols. 4to.
Burnet’s History of his own Times. London, 1724, in 2 vols.
folio.
Burton’s Commentary on Antoninus’s Itinerary. London, 1658,
folio.
Camdeni Britannia, 1586 and 1607, with his Remains.
Campbell’s Survey of Great Britain. London, 1774, 2 vols. 4to.
Carte’s Life of Ormond. London, 1736, in 3 vols. folio.
Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion. Oxford, 1702, 4
vols. folio.
Coxe’s Life of Sir Robert Walpole. London, 1798, 3 vols. 4to.
Coxe’s Memoir of Marlborough.
De Lolme on the English Constitution. London, 1790, 8vo.
Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica. Dublin, 1772, in 2 vols. 8vo.
Drayton’s Polyolbion. London, 1622, folio.
Du Chesne’s Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores. Paris. 1619, folio.
Du Chesne’s Histoire d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1634, folio.
Dugdale’s Origines Judiciales. London, 1666, fol.
Dugdale’s History of the Troubles in England. Oxford, 1681,
folio.
Dugdale’s History of Imbanking, &c. London, 1662, folio.
Evelyn’s Memoirs.
Enderbie’s Cambria triumphans. London, 1661, folio.
Franklin’s Annals of James I. and Charles I. Lond. 1681, folio.
Granger’s Biographical History of England. Lond. 1769, 5 vols.
4to.
Gifford’s Life of Pitt.
Hardyng’s Chronicle. London, 1543, 4to.
Heylin’s Life of Laud. London, 1668, folio.
Holinshed’s Chronicles of England. London, no date, folio.
Ingram’s Saxon Chronicle. Oxford, 4to.
Kennett’s Register and Chronicle. London, 1728, folio.
Biographia Britannica. Lond. 1747, in 7 vols. fol.
Laud’s History of his Troubles. London, 1695, fol.
Atkyns’ History of Gloucestershire. London, 1712, folio.
Battely’s Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1703, folio.
Bentham’s History of the Church of Ely. Cambridge, 1771, 4to.
Boys’ History of Sandwich. Canterbury, 1792, 4to.
Burton’s Leicestershire. London, 1622, folio.
Caius, de Antiquitate Acad. Cantabr. Lond. 1574, 4to.
Chiffletius de Portu Iccio. Antverpiæ, 1627, 4to.
Dart’s Church of Canterbury. London, 1726, fol.
Description of York and Canterbury Cathedrals. London, 1755,
folio.
Dugdale’s Warwickshire. London, 1656, folio.
Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s. London, 1716, fol.
Fowler’s Mosaic Pavements.
Gostling’s Walks about Canterbury. Canterbury, 1777, 8vo.
Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments. London, 1786, &c. 5 vols. folio.
Gutch’s Collectanea Curiosa.
Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta.
Harris’s History of Kent. London, 1719, folio, with some
manuscript notes by M. Norris, formerly Auditor of this Church.
Hasted’s History of Kent. Canterbury, 1778, &c. in 4 vols.
folio.
Horsley’s Britannia Romana. London, 1732, folio.
Jacob’s History of Feversham. London, 1774, 8vo.
Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities. 4to.
Kilburne’s Survey of Kent. London, 1659, 4to.
Kilburne’s Brief Survey of Kent. London, 1657.
King’s Vale Royal. London, 1656, folio.
Lewis’s History of the Isle of Tenet. London, 1723, 4to.
Lewis’s History of Faversham, &c. London, 1727, 4to.
Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia illustrata, folio.
Magna Britannia. Lond. 1720, in 6 vols. 4to.
Maitland’s History of London. 1772, in 2 vols. fol.
Leland’s History of Ireland. London, 1773, in 3 vols. 4to.
Lloyd’s History of Wales, by Powell. London, 1584, 4to.
Lhuyd, Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum. Col. Agr. 1572, 8vo.
Mc Crie’s Life of Knox.
Madox’s Firma Burgi. Lond. 1726, folio.
Madox’s History of the Exchequer. London, 1711, in 2 vols.
folio.
Nalson’s Collections. London, 1682, in 2 vols. fol.
Neubrigensis, Guil. Rerum Anglicarum Libri V. Antv. 1567, 8vo.
Nicholl’s Original Letters addressed to Oliver Cromwell.
London, 1743, folio.
North’s Life of the Lord Keeper North. London, 1742, 4to.
North’s Life of Sir Dudley North. Lond. 1744, 4to.
North’s Enquiry into Kennett’s History. London, 1740, 4to.
Parker, De Rebus sui Temporis. London, 1726, 8vo.
Pepys’ Memoirs, edited by Lord Braybrooke. 2 vols. 4to.
Robertson’s History of Scotland. Lond. 1762, 2 vols. 4to.
Ruding’s Annals of the Coinage. 3 vols. 4to.
Rushworth’s Historical Collections. London, 1682, &c. 8 vols.
folio.
Rymer’s Fœdera. Lond. 1727, in 20 vols. folio.
Sidney State Papers. London, 1746, 2 vols. folio.
Slayter’s Palæ-Albion. London, 1619, folio.
Somner’s Treatise of Gavelkind. London, 1726, 4to.
Speed’s History of Great Britain. London, 1623, folio.
Spelman’s Vita Ælfredi. Oxon. 1678, folio.
Spencer’s Life of Archbishop Chichele. London, 1783.
Strype’s Lives, Annals of the Reformation and Memorials.
Stuart’s History of Scotland.
Thurloe’s State Papers. London, 1742, in 7 vols. folio.
Twinus de Rebus Albionicis. Londini, 1590, 8vo.
Manning and Bray’s History of Surrey.
Miller’s Account of Ely Cathedral. 8vo.
Morton’s Northamptonshire. London, 1712, folio.
Newcourt’s Repertorium Londinense. Lond. 1728, in 2 vols. folio.
Packe’s Dissertation on his Chart of East Kent. London, 1737.
The Chart itself being also in the possession of the Dean and
Chapter. It is both curious and important.
Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa. Londini, 1732, in 2 vols. folio.
Peck’s Annals of Stamford. London, 1727, folio.
Philipot’s Villare Cantianum. Lond. 1659, folio.
Plot’s Nat. Hist. of Oxfordshire. Oxford, 1667, fol.
Somner’s Portus Iccius Cæsaris, per Edm. Gibson. Oxon. 1694,
8vo.
Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1640, 4to. This
copy contains the manuscript additions of Somner himself,
which Battely afterwards incorporated with his Antiquities of
Canterbury, published in 1703.
Speed’s Prospect of the most famous places in Great Britain.
London, 1631, folio.
Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum. London, 1656, 4to.
Stow’s Survey of London. London, 1633, folio.
Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum. Lond. 1724, fol.
Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. London, 1744, folio.
Thorpe’s Registrum Roffensis. Lond. 1769, folio.
Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons.
Twinus de Antiquitate Academiæ Oxoniensis. Oxon. 1608, 4to.
Wright’s History of Rutland. London, 1684, fol.
Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence. Antwerp, 1605,
4to.
Wallis’s History of Northumberland.
Weever’s Funeral Monuments. London, 1631, fol.
Wood’s Athenæ & Antiquitates Oxonienses. London. 1721, 2 vols.
folio.
Wild’s Description of Canterbury Cathedral.
Willement’s Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral.
White’s Natural History of Selborne.
Wilson’s History of Merchant Taylor’s School.
Walker’s History of Independency. London, 1661, 4to.
Viti Basinstochii Historia Britanniæ. 1602, 8vo.