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A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande and kinges of the same : deduced from the Creation of the vvorlde, vnto the first habitation of thys islande: and so by contynuance vnto the first yere of the reigne of our most deere and souereigne Lady Queene Elizabeth: collected out of sundry aucthors, whose names are expressed in the next page of this leafe

Archive Print Item: BC GB C16/17 q/GRA

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Title: A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande and kinges of the same : deduced from the Creation of the vvorlde, vnto the first habitation of thys islande: and so by contynuance vnto the first yere of the reigne of our most deere and souereigne Lady Queene Elizabeth: collected out of sundry aucthors, whose names are expressed in the next page of this leafe

Other titles: Chronicle

Level: Item

Classmark: BC GB C16/17 q/GRA

Creator(s): Grafton, Richard (1572)

Additional creator(s): Solis, Virgil (1514-1562) (Other)

Related people: Solis, Virgil

Publisher: By Henry Denham, dwelling in Paternoster Rowe, for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye

Publication city: Imprinted at London

Date(s): Anno Domini. 1569. (the last of March)

Language: English

Size and medium: [12], 192, [8]; [2], 1369, [43] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298006

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003816279705181

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"To the gentle reader" signed: Richard Grafton.


At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.


Imprint from colophon except for publication date. Month date from colophon.


"This seconde volume, beginning at VVilliam the Conquerour.." has separate pagination, register, and title page dated 1568.


A few of the illustrations were cut by Virgil Solis.


5T6 and 6A3 are each in two settings; 5T6r has catchword (1) "of" or (2) "selfe"; 6A3v has catchword (1) "But" or (2) "to". The first version of each treats the Duke of Norfolk's attainder before Henry VIII's death as supposed, the latter as fact.


Includes indexes.

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Issue with setting: 5T6r catchword of and 6A3r catchword But

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