A help to English history; containing a succession of all the kings of England, the English, Saxons, and the Britons; the kings and princes of Wales; the kings and lords of Man: and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the dukes, marquises, earls, and bishops thereof. With the descriptions of the places from whence they had their titles. Together with the names and ranks of the viscounts, barons, and baronets, of England. By Peter Heylyn, D. D. Prebendary of Westminster. And since his death continued, with great additions, to the first day of November, 1773. With the coats of arms of the nobility, accurately engraved on copper plates, and properly blazoned. To this edition are now first added, lists of the extinct viscounts and barons: also the Praetorian banner displayed; or, the arms of all the Lord Mayors of London, accurately engraved on copper plates, and explained by true blazonry, with a complete list of the said magistrates: now first published, by Paul Wright, B. D. Fellow of the

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  • A help to English history; containing a succession of all the kings of England, the English, Saxons, and the Britons; the kings and princes of Wales; the kings and lords of Man: and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the dukes, marquises, earls, and bishops thereof. With the descriptions of the places from whence they had their titles. Together with the names and ranks of the viscounts, barons, and baronets, of England. By Peter Heylyn, D. D. Prebendary of Westminster. And since his death continued, with great additions, to the first day of November, 1773. With the coats of arms of the nobility, accurately engraved on copper plates, and properly blazoned. To this edition are now first added, lists of the extinct viscounts and barons: also the Praetorian banner displayed; or, the arms of all the Lord Mayors of London, accurately engraved on copper plates, and explained by true blazonry, with a complete list of the said magistrates: now first published, by Paul Wright, B. D. Fellow of the
  • Her=oologia Anglorum
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Imprint
London : printed for the editor: and sold by Mr. Bathurst, no 26, in Fleet-street; Messrs. Rivington, no 62, in St. Paul's Church-yard; Mr. Whiston, no 64, in Fleet-street; Mr. Payne, at the Mews gate, near Charing-cross; Mr. Davies, in Russel-street; Mr. Horsfield, no 22, Ludgate-street; Mr. Hingeston, without Temple-bar; Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange; and Mr. Almon, in Piccadilly.--Sold also, by Mr. Woodyer, at Cambridge; Mr. Prince, at Oxford; Mr. G. Frost and Mr. S. Gray, at Chelmsford; by most of the booksellers in the kingdom; and by the editor, at Oakley, near Quendon, Essex, MDCCLXXIII [1773].
Publication year
1773
ESTC No.
T107428
Grub Street ID
160451
Description
14,[8],33,[5],37-560,[2]p.,plates ; 8°.
Note
With a half-title, a list of subscribers, and a final errata leaf

First published in 1641 as 'Her=oologia Anglorum. Or, an help to English history' under the pseudonym Robert Hall; the first word is transliterated from the Greek

Reissued in 1786 with a cancel title and cancel p. 559-560

Printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols.
Uncontrolled note
P.543 misnumbered 443