The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches; Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon anglicanum containing the original and first establishment of all the religious orders that ever were in Great-Britain... The foundations of their several monasteries. A very large collection of many hundred of grants and charters ... The final suppression of all those places ... There are added catalogues of the abbats, and other superiors of those religious houses ... with short lives of as many of them have been transmitted down to us. Collected from above two hundred of the best historians extant, and from antient manuscripts ... Adorn'd with a considerable number of copper-plates of the several habits of the religious orders, the ichonographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches (v.1)
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Title: The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches; Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon anglicanum containing the original and first establishment of all the religious orders that ever were in Great-Britain... The foundations of their several monasteries. A very large collection of many hundred of grants and charters ... The final suppression of all those places ... There are added catalogues of the abbats, and other superiors of those religious houses ... with short lives of as many of them have been transmitted down to us. Collected from above two hundred of the best historians extant, and from antient manuscripts ... Adorn'd with a considerable number of copper-plates of the several habits of the religious orders, the ichonographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches (v.1)
Other titles: History of the ancient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches; The appendix: containing charters, grants, and other original writings, refer'd to in these two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum
Classmark: BC Misc. Quartos/STE
Creator(s): Stevens, John (1749-1838)
Additional creator(s): Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) (Other); Dodsworth, Roger (1585-1654) (Other)
Related people: Dugdale, William; Dodsworth, Roger
Publisher: Printed for Tho. Taylor, Luke Stokoe, Jos. Smith, John Senex, W. Taylor, T. Meighan, J. Batley, And. Johnston, W. Bray, R. King, and Tho. Cox
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1722-1723
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/324349
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016984479705181
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A continuation of John Stevens' abridged translation, published in London in 1718 (under the title: Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales), of Sir William Dugdale's Latin work Monasticon anglicanum (originally published under the joint authorship of R. Dodsworth and Sir W. Dugdale, London, 1655-73).
Title page in red and black.
With woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials.
"The appendix: containing charters, grants, and other original writings, refer'd to in these two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum" has separate title-page (dated MDCCXXIII) signatures and pagination.
Indexed in: ESTC
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