The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Publ. in His Life-Time Volume 2; Together with His Posthumous Works Together with the Life of the Author, Now REV. to Which Are Added 2 More Treatises Never Before Print with a Compleat Index to the Whole (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1723 Excerpt: ...ultro 70 c nobia (quot in limili foatio nulquam inVenies) condiderunt. Vivit fat honeste ipla Plebecula; cujus tamen rusticitatem fumoso derisit carmine (quod aliquando vidimus) sub Johannis Regis exitu Monachus quidam Petroburgensis, sic exordiens: 1 'EdiElum exiit Augujio Casare, Gfai mittens nuncios, juflit describert Mundi Trovincias jitmmo cum opere. Erat vero tune quidam familiaris ejus Norfolcianus, Jo. de S. Omero, cujus Nominis Familia in Well juxta Wisbech Sedem habuit, St fbemina Haerede ad Beaupreos transiit. Me Monachi vefaniam indignatus, patrias edit vindi-cias, numeros reddens numeris, & rythmos rythmis: opulculum inferibic Norfokianae'DeJcriptionis Impugnationem. Sic inchoatur: EdiElum fingi-tur faflum d Caefare. Sub Rege autem Johanne b novas fulcepisse periclitabatur Norfolcia & Suffolcia Incolas. Has enim Provincias iple, ut dicebat, per Chartam fuam Hugoni de Bones dederat, qui cum 60 millia armatorum in auxilium ejus comparasset, una omnes a Pelago font abforpti, & cadaver Hugonis cum mer10rum multitudine tam Fceminarum & Infantium quam Virorum, Gernemuttt ejectum. Multitudo aerem ipfum inficiens Morbum & Pestem provincialibus intulit; quos ut viva statuerat extinguere, & Sedes hie sibi perpetuas comparare, voti quodammodo compos efneitun E quatuor his Regiunculis; mediterraneae funt omnino Huntingtonienjis 8c c U Cantabrigienjis: maritimae, pro dimidio, Norfolcia & Suffbktd. Ccelum "Solt' omnibus velut unum, mite satis & tenue; led maritimis refrigerantius. Solum unicuique proprium; fed mediterraneis pinguis: Huntingtonia Pafcuis aptior; Cantabrigia Cereri; Suffolcia Lacte fcatet & Cafeo; Norfolciaj Vellere est nobilior. Mediterraneae tantum ex humo vivunt.