An introduction to the old English history / comprehended in three several tracts. The first, an answer to Mr. Petyt's Rights of the commons asserted; and to a book intituled, Jani Anglorum facies nova [by William Atwood]; the second edition very much enlarged. The second, an answer to a book intituled, Argumentum antinormanicum [by Edward Cooke], much upon the same subject; never before published. The third, the exact history of the succession of the Crown of England. The second edition, also very much inlarged. Together with an appendix containing several records, and a series of great councils and parliaments before and after the conquet, unto the end of the reign of Henry the Tkhired. and a glossary expounding many words used frequently in our antient records, laws and historians...By Robert Brady.
- Robert Brady
- Date:
- 1684
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Credit: An introduction to the old English history / comprehended in three several tracts. The first, an answer to Mr. Petyt's Rights of the commons asserted; and to a book intituled, Jani Anglorum facies nova [by William Atwood]; the second edition very much enlarged. The second, an answer to a book intituled, Argumentum antinormanicum [by Edward Cooke], much upon the same subject; never before published. The third, the exact history of the succession of the Crown of England. The second edition, also very much inlarged. Together with an appendix containing several records, and a series of great councils and parliaments before and after the conquet, unto the end of the reign of Henry the Tkhired. and a glossary expounding many words used frequently in our antient records, laws and historians...By Robert Brady. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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