Notitia parliamentaria

Notitia parliamentaria

Full title: Notitia parliamentaria : or, an history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales, Shewing What Boroughs were anciently Parliamentary, but now disus'd, What do at this Day return to Parliament, Their Antiquities, Charters, Privileges, Lords, Churches, Monasteries, Government, Number of Electors, &c. : To which are subjoin'd, Lists of all the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, (as far as can be collected from Records) from the first Summons to Parliament, to this Time : With an Account of The Roman Towns in every Shire, What Nobility have been distinguish'd with Titles from each County, The Number of Parishes, Market-Town, &c. therein : The whole extracted from Mss and printed evidences, Attempted in an Alphabetical Order, beginning with Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, and Cheshire, and since carried on in a second Volume, including Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Dorset, and Durham / By Browne Willis, Esq.

Browne Willis, 1682-1760

London : Printed for Robert Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet [London?] : William Bowyer.

MDCCXXX [1730]

2 volumes ; 20 cm.

Includes half-title page.

Volume 1 only is of the second edition, with additions ;
Volume 2 is a reissue of the first edition of 1716.

Vol. 1 printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed.

Bookplates for (1) Thomas Maitland, Dundrennan and (2) Henry Drummond, Albury Park, Surrey, in front of volumes.

Shared binding and spine title with volume 3, published in 1750.

Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]

Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.) donor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

JN561 .W5 1730
ESTC, T65477.
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1521.