Author: Lloyd, Da;
Title: MEMOIRS OF THE LIVES, ACTIONS, SUFFERINGS & DEATHS of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages, That Suffered By Death, Sequestration, Decimation, Or Otherwise, for the Protestant Religion, And the great Principle thereof, Allegiance To their Soveraigne, In our late Intestine Wars; From the Year 1637, to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. With the Life and Martyrdom of King Charles I.
Description: London : printed for Samuel Speed; and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates; by John Wright, at the Globe in Little-Britain; John Symmes, at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street; and James Collins, in Westminster-Hall, 1668 1st Ed. Sm. folio. [xii] + 708pp. + [i]. 19 portraits on frontis., dec. initial letters and headpieces. ‘J? ? Rawlinsone ano Domini I’ along fore-edge of pp.284, much underlining thoughout and some scholarly ink marginalia, frontis. and title page lacking margins with frontis. rebacked and title page repaired to verso and re-margined with later paper, some browning, new e.ps., edges trimmed, ex.-libris Gerald E. Aylmer, rebound in modern gilt lettered cloth. ¶ ESTC R3832. ‘With a final advertisement leaf.’ Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L2642. David Lloyd (1635–1692) British biographer. This work, embodying much that had already appeared in Lloyd's Statesmen, is of slight historical or biographical value. ‘... Anthony Wood says of the Memoires—which included material already used in The Statesmen and Favourites of England—that there 'are almost as many errors as lines', and Lloyd gained something of a reputation not only as 'a most impudent plagiary, but a false writer and mere scribbler'. Bishop Humphreys relates that in later years Lloyd himself 'would express no great esteem of his youthful performances' (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 4.349, 352n.). Yet for all the errors of detail, Lloyd's writings provide an insight into the beliefs and opinions of the Anglican and royalist clergy in the first decades of the Restoration ...’ ODNB

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