Englands Reformation from the time of king Henry the VIIIth to the end Oates’s Plot.

WARD, Thomas

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Hambourgh [i.e. St. Omer, English College Press], 1710

4to: [4]-136-112 [i.e. 116]-56-110-[1] pp. (toned, marginal dampstaining).

Contemp. sheep (sl. worn). Good copy.

1st ed. of a history of English ecclesiastical history (16th-17th c.) in verse, written in the metre of "Hudibras", by Th. Ward (1652-1708), an English teacher who converted to Catholicism.
Ref. ESTC T132416. - Foxon W-207.
Prov. Old Leuven University Library (19th-c. duplicate stamp).
Joined: Sander, Nicholas - Vera et sincera historia schismatis Anglicani [...], aucta per Edvardum Rishtonum [...]. Cologne, P. Henning, 1628. 8vo. Contemp. gilt calf, covers with oval "Arma Christi" stamp (rebacked, new endpapers). Good copy. Bound with, same printer: Summarium rationum, quibus cancellarius Angliae et prolocutor Pyckeringius Elizabethae Angliae reginae persuaserunt occidendam esse [...] Mariam Stuartam Scotiae reginam [...] [and] Maria stuarta, regina Scotiae [...] martyr ecclesiae, innocens a caede Darleana [...]. 1627 (usual toning). Ref. VD17 23:249266K & 23:249270V. - Allison/Rogers 978& 1059 & 1272. (3 works in 2 vol.)