Articuli Synodi Londinensis, &c.
Of Works relating to History in general, I am enabled to notice the
series of Byzantine Historians; the Speculum Europæ of Sandys; Freheri,
Rerum Bohemicarum Scriptores; the Historia Belgica; Chronicon Regum
Francorum; Freculphi, Chronicon; Leunclavii, Annales Turcici; Rycaut’s
Turks, the series of Respublicæ Variæ; Reuberi, Pistorii, et Lindenbrogii
Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Emmius, Rerum Friscianorum Historia;
Herrera, Description des Indes; Ligon’s Barbadoes; Sloane’s Jamaica;
Smith’s Virginia; Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores, Francofurti, 1579-81,
in 3 vols. folio; Ornhielms, Historia Sueonum, 1589; Krantzii, Chronica
Danica, Norvegica, &c. Aug. 1546; Loniceri, de rebus Turcicis, 1578,
folio; Knolles’ Turks; Olaus Magnus Historia Gentium Septentrionalium,
Romæ, 1555; Mezeray, Historie de France, abregé, Amstel. 1673-96, in 7
vols. 8vo.; Molesworth’s Denmark, Rerum Moscoviticarum Auctores, &c.
Francof. 1600, folio; Poloniæ Historiæ Corpus edente Pistorio, Basileæ,
1582; and Vulcanii Scriptores Rerum Gothicorum.
The books which relate to the History of Great Britain are deserving of
particular notice, as well for their number as for their value, since
we here find copies of the Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores, XV. edited
by Gale and Fell at Oxford, in 1684, and the X. Scriptores, edited by
Twysden, in 1652, both in folio; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post
Bedam edente Savile, Londini, 1596, and Francof. 1602, folio; Commelini,
Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores vetustiores, Heidelbergæ, 1587, folio;
Commentarioli Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum à H. Lhuyd, Col.
Agr. 1572; Duchesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores, and the Historiæ
Francorum Scriptores Coetanei, edente B. Pithæo; Camdeni, Anglica,
Normannica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Asserii Vita Ælfredi; Baker’s
Chronicle, 1670; Bale’s Chronicle of Sir John Oldcastle; Brady’s History
of England; Majoris Historia Britannica, 1521, 8vo.; the History of Great
Britain, 1606, 4to.; Birch’s Elizabeth; Camdeni Annales Elizabethæ;
Carleton’s Letters, 1757-75-80, 4to.; Chaloner de Rêpublicâ Anglorum;
Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Oclandi
Anglorum Prælia, 1377-1558, Lond. 1580, 4to. and his Elizabetheïs,
London, 1589, 4to.; Duchesne Historie d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1604,
folio; Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion; Cooper’s Chronicle,
London, 1560, 4to.; Daniel’s History of England; Doleman’s Conference
respecting the Succession to the Crown of England, 1594, 8vo.; Danyel’s
Battle of Agincourt, 1631, 8vo.; Dugdale’s View of the Troubles, and of
the Office of Lord Chancellor; Eadmeri Historia Novorum edente Selden;
Echard’s History of England; Barnes’ Edward III.; Fabian’s Chronicle,
London, 1533, folio; Fleetwode, Elenchus Annalium Edvardi V. &c. 1597,
folio; Florentii, Wigornensis Chronicon, Francofurti, 1611, folio;
Froissart’s Chronicle, Paris, 1505; Galfredi, Monumetensis de Gestis
Regum Britanniæ, Parisiis, 1508, 4to.; Gildas, de excidio ac conquestu
Britanniæ, Lond. 1568, 8vo.; Godwini, Annales Henrici VIII. and Charta
Regia, 1616, &c. Gulielmi Neubrigensis, Historia Rerum Angl. Parisiis,
1610, 8vo.; Hall’s Chronicle, London, 1550, folio; Hayward’s Historie
of Edward the Sext; Hearne’s Textus Roffensis, Oxon. 1720, 8vo.; Lord
Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Sir Thomas Herbert’s Memoirs of Charles I.; Sir
Philip Warwick’s Memoirs; Holinshed’s Chronicle, London, 1587, in 2 vols.
folio; Denzil Hollis’ Memoirs; Howel’s Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ; Langhorne’s
Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium, 1673, 8vo.; Laud’s Troubles; the
Life of Sir Henry Vane; Lilii, Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Francof. 1565,
4to.; the Custumary of London; Ludlow’s Memoirs, in 3 octavo volumes;
Martin’s History of the Kings of England, 1615; Matthæi Paris, Historia
Anglicana, Londini, 1571 and 1686, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis,
Flores Historiarum, Londini, 1570, folio; Sir Walter Raleigh’s History
of William the Conqueror; Sir E. Walker’s Historical Discourse, London,
1705, folio; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera; the
Records of the Kingdom; Sammes’ Britannia Antiqua; Prisei, Historiæ
Britannicæ Defensio, Londini, 1573, 4to.; State Tryals, 1776-9, in 5
vols. folio; those by Hargrave, 1776-81, in 6 vols. folio; Smith, de
Republicâ Anglorum, 12mo.; Sancroft’s and Sacheverell’s Tryals; Speed’s
Theatre and History of Great Britain, in red morocco; Stow’s Annales,
1592, and his Annals edited by Howes, 1615; Toland’s Anglia Libera, Lond.
1701, 8vo.; Twyne, de rebus Albionicis; Tyrrell’s History of England;
Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Duaci, 1603, 8vo.; Pontici Virunnii
Historia Britannica, Lond. 1585, 8vo.; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1682 and
1709, folio, and a Catalogue of the Reges, Reginæ ac Nobiles alii sepulti
in Ecclesiâ Westmonasteriensi, Londoni, 1603, 4to., and the Population
Returns; Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Walsingham, Historia Anglorum ab Edv.
I. ad Henr. V. Londini, folio; Warner’s Albion’s England, London, 1612,
4to.; Weldon’s Memoirs of James I. and Welwood’s Memoirs, 1700, 8vo.
Among the books relating to Scottish History, I noticed Buchanan’s
History of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1593, folio; and the rare Tract, entitled
Maria Scotorum Regina Vindice, Oberto Barnestapolio, Ingoldstadii, 1588,
8vo.; Brand’s Description of Orkney and Zetland, Edinburgh, 1703, 8vo.;
Wallace’s Account of the Orkney Islands, London, 1700; Drummond’s History
of Scotland from 1423 to 1542, London, 1655, folio; Historia Orcadensis,
1780; Johnstone’s Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ et Normannicæ; Patten’s
Expedition of the Duke of Somerset into Scotland, London, 1548, 12mo.;
Rochette, Histoire de Marie Stuart; Martin’s Western Islands of Scotland,
London, 1703, 8vo.; Sir James Melvil’s Memoirs; the Life of Wallace,
Edinburgh, 1620; Pezron’s Antiquities of the Celtic Nations; and Torfæi
Orcadum Historia, Havniæ, 1697, folio.
Of Welsh Histories it may suffice to mention Caradoc’s History of Wales,
edited by Wynne, London, 1696, 8vo.; and Powell’s History of Wales,
London, 1584, 4to.
I may here notice, Merlin’s Prophetia Anglicana Latine, a Galfredo
Monumetensi, Francof. 1608, 8vo.
Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, the
most remarkable are, Abingdon’s Worcester Cathedral; Burleigh’s State
Papers, by Murdin, London, 1759, folio; Battely, Antiquitates Rutupinæ;
Birch’s Lives of Bacon, Tillotson, and Raleigh; Memoirs of Queen
Elizabeth, and other Works; Bearcroft’s History of the Charter House;
Bertrami, Britannicarum Gentium Historiæ Scriptores tres, Hauniæ, 1757,
8vo.; Borlase’s Cornwall; Carleton’s Letters, 1757, 4to.; Carte’s History
of England, with his Life of Ormonde; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia;
Clarendon’s Life, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Works; Ducarel’s
Anglo-Norman Antiquities, Anglo-Gallic Coins, and Tour through Normandy;
Deering’s Nottingham; Green’s Worcester, 1764, 8vo.; Dugdale’s St.
Paul’s, 1716; Doddridge’s Life of Gardiner; Burnet’s Life of Rochester;
Harris’ Lives of Charles I. and II. and of Cromwell; Harris’ Kent;
Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, edente Hearne. Oxon. 1745,
8vo.; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, Oxford, 1745, in 9 octavo
volumes; the Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Philipot’s Villare
Cantianum, London, 1659, folio; Lewis’ History of Faversham, 1727, and
of the Isle of Tenet, 1736; Echard’s History of England, and of the
Revolution of 1688; Macaulay’s St. Kilda, and Macqueen’s Observations
thereon; Mallet’s Life of Bacon; Hume’s History of England, London,
1756, 8vo.; Morant’s History of Colchester, 1748, and of Essex, 1763,
folio; the Parliamentary History of England, 1762, in 24 octavo volumes;
and the Debates of Parliament, 1739, in 16 vols. 8vo.; Plot’s Natural
History of Oxfordshire; some of Prynne’s pieces; Rapin’s History of
England, by Tindall; Robertson’s History of Scotland; Stukeley’s Account
of Richard of Cirencester, London, 1757, 4to.; and Thorpe’s Registrum
Roffense; Walpole’s Life of Richard III.; Ward’s Gresham College; Willis’
Cathedrals, 1737, in 3 vols.; his History of Buckingham, 1755, 4to.; and
his Notitia Parliamentaria, 1750, in 3 vols. 8vo.; and Wren’s Parentalia,
1750, folio; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, Lond. 1721, in 2 vols. folio; the
Stemmata Chicheleana, Oxford, 1765, 4to.; the Lettres Historiques, Edin.
1759, 12mo.; and Sir William Temple’s Introduction to the History of
England, London, 1695, 8vo.
The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England, embrace,
Adams’ Index Villaris; the complete series of the Archæologia; Atkyn’s
Gloucestershire, 1712, folio; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Battely’s Antiquitates
Rutupinæ; Bentham’s Ely; Blount’s Fragmenta Antiquitatis; Bray’s
Bibliotheca Parochialis; Britannia Illustrata, Lond. 1707, folio;
Camden’s Britannia, London, 1607, and edited by Gibson, London, 1695,
folio; Brooke’s Discovery of Errors in Camden’s Britannia; Camden’s
Remaines concerning Britaine; Charleton’s Stonehenge; Chauncey’s
Hertfordshire; Ducarel’s Account of St. Catherine’s Church, London, 1782,
4to., and of Lambeth Palace, London, 1785, 4to.; Dugdale’s Monasticon
Anglicanum, 1655, in 3 vols. folio; Hasted’s Kent; Howel’s History
of London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Leigh’s Natural History
of Lincolnshire, 1700, folio; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities, 1695,
on large paper; Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata, 2 vols.
folio; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, and History of the Exchequer;
Morgan’s Roads, 1689, 8vo.; Newcourt’s Diocese of London, 2 vols.
folio; Paterson’s Pietas Londinensis, 1714; Somner’s Antiquities of
Canterbury, 1703, folio, and his Account of the Roman Ports and Forts
in Kent; Gibson’s Portus Iccius, Oxon. 1694, folio; Spelman’s Villare
Anglicanum; Stow’s London, 1603, 4to.; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, 1695;
Webbe’s Stonehenge restored, 1665; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed
Intelligence; Wittie’s Scarborough Spaw, 1660; Whitworth’s Register of
the Trade of the Port of London, 1777, 8vo.; and Wood’s History and
Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 1674, folio, and the Statuta
Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1638, 8vo.
Numerous are the Historical Tracts relating to some of the most eventful
periods of English History contained within these walls. Under this head
may be classed the famous Εικων Βασιλικη; the Defensio Regia; the Royal
Martyr, 1684, 8vo.; Carolus Redux, Oxon. 1629, 8vo.; Douglas’s Account
of the Coronation of Charles II. London, 1660, 4to.; and the complete
series of the London Gazettes from November 7, 1665, to December 31,
1768, in 50 folio volumes, which have been continued from September,
1769 to the year 1783, by Archbishop Cornwallis, whose successors will
doubtless continue to preserve the chain of these ephemeral productions
unbroken to the present day.
The legal Works relating to the History of England which I noticed, are
the Magna Charta, edited by Blackstone, with some Legal Tracts by that
great lawyer; the Acts of Parliament, from the 8th to the 30th of George
II. in 23 vols. folio, and from the 31st of George II. to the 10th of
George III. in 12 vols. folio; the Acta Regia, London, 1726, in 3 vols.
8vo.; Dalrymple on Feudal Property, London, 1758, 12mo.; the Trial of
Lord George Sackville, 1760, 8vo.; the Trial of James Annesley, and
Richard, Earl of Anglesey, 1744, folio; and Wood’s Institutes of the Laws
of England.
There are also several Tracts of a Miscellaneous Nature, chiefly relating
to Political Events from 1697 to 1721, contained in 22 octavo, 16 quarto,
5 12mo. and 2 folio volumes; the Gazetteer, from 1714 to 1760, in 28
quarto volumes; Political Pamphlets, from 1702 to 1766, in 38 volumes
8vo.; the State of Great Britain, from 1711 to 1740, in 59 volumes, 8vo.;
and the Old Whig, London, 1739, in 2 vols. 8vo., all tending to elucidate
an anxious and eventful period in England’s History.
Of Works relating to the History of Ireland, I noticed Cox’s Ireland;
Pauli Jovii Descriptio Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ, Venetiis, 1549, 4to.;
a Geographical Description of Ireland, 1642, 8vo.; Historical Memoirs of
the Irish Rebellion of 1641, London, 1767, 8vo.; Mac Geoghegan, Histoire
d’Irlande, Paris, 1758, 4to.; Sir William Petty’s Political Anatomy of
Ireland, London, 1691, 8vo.; Stanihurst, de Rebus Hibernicis, Antv. 1584,
4to.; Temple’s History of the Irish Rebellion of 1646; Waræi Disquisitio
de Hiberniâ, Lond. 1654, 8vo.; Ware’s History of Ireland, London, 1705,
folio; and Warner’s History of the Rebellion in Ireland.
The Historical Works in this Collection comprehend several Pamphlets, and
Works relating to America, together with
Anderson’s Greenland. Paris, 1750, in 2 vols. 12mo.
Campbell’s Balearic Isles.
Crantz’s Greenland.
Hughes’ Barbadoes.
Froelichii Annales Regum Syriæ. Viennæ, 1744.
Hooke’s Roman History.
Kennett’s Antiquities of Rome.
Lewis’ Parthian Empire, 1728, 8vo.
Ockley’s Saracens.
Shaw’s Travels.
Raymond’s History of Gustavus, 1761, 8vo.