A chronicle of the kings of England,. from the time of the Romans government unto the death of King James. Containing all passages of state and church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle. Faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern; and digested into a new method. By Sir Richard Baker Knight. Whereunto is added, the reign of King Charles the First, with continuation of the chronicle, in this fourth edition, to the coronation of His Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second that now reigneth. In which are many material affairs of state never before published; and likewise the most remarkable occurances relating to His Majesties most happy and wonderful restauration, by the prudent conduct, under God, of General Monck, now Duke of Albermarle, and captain general of all His Majesties Armies: as they were extracted out of His Excellencie own papers, and the journals and memorials of those imploy'd in the most important and secret transactions of that time.
Sir Richard Baker (1568 - 1645)
Category
Books
Date
1665
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3226276
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40], 454, 457-822, [46] p. ;. fol. This copy has the date 1670 after imprint on additional engraved titlepage. Both titlepage and dedication leaf have been mounted, with the result that it is not possible to read imprimatur on dedication leaf verso. With seventeenth-century marginal notes and manicules. Provenance: with pencil notes on pastedown in the hand of Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969): "I bought this volume at Cambridge in June 1958. I do not know the name of its first owner, but he was clearly a man of Puritan leanings, and perhaps an elderly man who had been an active Parliamentarian - see his comments on the posthumous revenge on Cromwell and his associates, pp. 801,803; and on the Coronation service of Charles II, pp. 814-817. RWKC." Binding: nineteenth-century (?) half calf; marbled paper over boards.
Makers and roles
Sir Richard Baker (1568 - 1645) General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albermarle, KG (1608-1670) Sir Thomas Clarges (d.1695) William Marshall (fl.1617-1650) Edward Phillips (1630-1696)