Author: [Touchet,George]
Title: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OUT OF SEVERAL PROTESTANT HISTORIANS concerning the Changes of Religion and the strange Confusions following in the reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
Description: London,printed by Henry Hills printer to the Kings most Excellent Najesty and for His Household & chappel, And for him & Matt.Turner 1686 . 149 x 91mm in 8's tan leather spine with speckled covers. Red spine label gilt and gilt double ruled covers and vellum underlayed to corners. [spine split for 1cm to head] [2pp =Titlepage] +434pp. Title cut down and laid down with word "Historical" bit cropped and fore-margin cut back lacking the S of "Collections" and neat name to foot of spine Rennyson. Gatherings H & I damp marked but quite crisp and entirely readable & gathering K only lightly stained to the bottom margin. A few mrgins with light dusting and a few corners with creases else a tight neat copy. The text is divided into sections, one for each monarch HENRY VIII, EDWARD VI QUEEN MARY and QUEEN ELIZABETH + Addition of passages from Sir Wll. Dugdale' Antiquities + An Appendix [of 92pp] all of which were based on chroniclers such as Heylyn, Dugdale, Stowe, Baker, Lord Herbert of Charbury etc and including copies of letters etc. A crisp tight neat copy with minimal dusting and slight fingering and a few corners sl.creased. Touchet was the second son of the Earl of Castleham who was executed for sexual crimes possibly making his younger son chose to Join the Benedictine order and the author was chaplain to Charles the 2nd's wife, Catherine of Berganza. As religious clampdown on catholics finally lead to the eviction of Catholic priest from England Touchet's book was suspect and this 2nd edition specifically stated that it was "published with allowance" and this edition has an Appendix of just under a hundred pages added after the "Historical Collections" Wing (2nd ed.) T1955A ESTC citation no.: R4226

Keywords: Tudor History, Changes of Religion, Reformation, monarchy


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