LEWIS JOHN -1615/6. LLWYD HUMPHREY 1527-1568. TWYNE THOMAS - TRANSLATOR 1543-1613. (THOMAS HUGH - EDITOR)
The History of Great-Britain, from the first Inhabitants thereof, 'till the Death of Cadwalader, .; and of the Kings of Scotland to Eugene V. and also a short Account of the Kings, Dukes, and Earls of Bretagne...
London: Printed for F. Gyles in Holborn, Mess. Woodman and Lyon in Covent-Garden, and C. Davis in Pater-Noster-Row, M DCC XXIX. [1729] . 0. A very good quarter calf binding. Folio. 15.5" x 10.0" x 1.2". Irregular pagination (but complete): [66pp.]/[1p.]/pp.2-71[1p.]/pp.251/[22pp.]/[1p.]/pp.2-8/pp.13-32/pp.35-52/[2pp.]. Brown calf spine with 6 raised bands and black leather title label. Marbled boards. Recent endpapers. Front endpaper; edges carefully strengthened, with purple ink stamp : Whitechurch-Rectory Crymmych R-S, O. Pem". Similar ink stamp to top of title-page, together with a black name ink stamp: "W. Williams". Title page in red & black. Historated capitals to each section , together with engraved head and tailpieces. Clean text throughout, just light staining and some worming to the top outer corner. A well preserved book. * Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog T113293. ** **** "WHITECHURCH (or Eglwys Wen), near Cardigan, is a parish in the county of Pembroke, one mile north-west from Crymmych Arms station, on the Whitland and Cardigan section of the Great Western railway, 7 south from Cardigan and 6 south-east from Newport (Pemb.), in Kemmes hundred and petty sessional division, Cardigan union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Kemmes, archdeaconry of Cardigan and diocese of St. David’s. The church of St. Michael, repaired in 1812, is a building of native stone with Bath stone dressings, in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel and nave, south porch and a western tower with spire containing one bell: there are 95 sittings. The registers date from the year 1704. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £140, average £104, net income £80, with 73 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Sir Marteine O. M. Lloyd bart. and held since 1881 by the Rev. William Williams, who is also vicar of Llanfair, Nantgwyn.." - See Kelly's Directory of South Wales (1895). **** Full title reads: The History of Great-Britain, from the first Inhabitants thereof, 'till the Death of Cadwalader, Last King of the Britains; and of the Kings of Scotland to Eugene V. as also a short Account of the Kings, Dukes, and Earls of Bretagne.in which are several Pieces of Taliessin, an antient British Poet, and a Defence of the Antiquity of the Scottish Nation: With many other Antiquities, never before published in the English Tongue: With a Compleat Index to the Whole. By John Lewis, Esq; Barrester at Law. Now first published from the Original Manuscript. To this is added The Breviary of Britayne, written in Latin by Humphrey Lhuyd of Denbigh . a Cambre Britayne; and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne Gent.

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Keywords: Whitechurch-Rectory Crymmych R-S, o. Pem Printed for F. Gyles in Holborn, Mess. Woodman and Lyon in Covent-Garden History: : 18th Century