An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London : from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the parliaments holden in each kings reign, and the several acts in every parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said parliaments.

Rev., rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several omissions, and exact tables, both of the special matters, great officers, speakers, nobles and other persons therein conteined / by William Prynne, esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne.

London : Printed for Wiliam Leake, stationer, at the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple gates, 1657.

1 p.l., [64], 716 (i.e. 588), [110] p. ; 35 cm.

BEIN By21 085: Portrait of Sir Robert Cotton inserted as frontis. Pagination irregular: p. 205-280, p. 485-532 not included in numbering; p. 445-448 missing(?) (Signatures mm3-4) same material, signatures & pp omitted in Basset ed. Signatures Aaaaa2, c2, Cx2, d-G2, (tables) bound in after pref. Signatures: aa4. intended as cancel for signatures aaa-aaaa, not in Basset ed. The tables are bound in different order than in LC's copy.

Collected more probably by William and Robert Boyer. cf. Dict. nat. biog.

English

June 01, 2002