Historia compendiosa anglicana: or, A compendious history of England wherein is contained, an account of its rulers, or Kings, from about the year of the creation 2851, in the time of the prophet Samuel, to the year of salvation, 1741. Adorn'd with portraitures, at length, of those monarchs, who have sway'd the British sceptre since the conquest: the history of the Kings of Scotland, from the reign of Pergus, Anno Mundi 3618, 'till King James the First united that Crown to the English Diadem: and an impartial account of the Roman Pontiffs, from St. Peter's crucifixion, to the present Benedict XIV. Who was lately elected. As likewise a succinct history of Rome, from its foundation by Romulus 'till the fall of King Tarquin, occasion'd by the rape of chast Lucretia: an account of the Consulate, Triumviarte, Higher and Lower Empires; the removal of the imperial seat to Constantinople; division of the Eastern and Western Empires; dissolution of the former by the Turks; with the rise of the Mahometans, and the lives of their Emperors, to this day.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Gent, Thomas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	York printed and sold by the author 1741, MDCCXLI. [1741]
Subjects:	Great Britain / History / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1562200501?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa