HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES _ENGLAND_, _SCOTLAND_, AND _IRELAND_. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. I. ENGLAND. _LONDON:_ PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; WILKIE AND ROBINSON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES; AND J. MAWMAN. 1807. AMS PRESS INC. NEW YORK AMS PRESS INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003 1965 MANUFACTURED in the U.S.A. [_Original Title._] THE FIRST AND SECOND VOLUMES OF CHRONICLES, COMPRISING 1 =The description and historie of England=, 2 =The description and historie of Ireland=, 3 =The description and historie of Scotland=: FIRST COLLECTED AND PUBLISHED BY RAPHAELL HOLINSHED, WILLIAM HARRISON, AND OTHERS: _Now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie)_ TO THE YEARE 1586, By JOHN HOOKER aliàs VOWELL Gent. AND OTHERS. WITH CONUENIENT TABLES AT THE END OF THESE VOLUMES. HISTORIÆ PLACEANT NOSTRATES AC PEREGRINÆ. ADVERTISEMENT. THE CHRONICLES of HOLINSHED having become exceedingly scarce, and, from their Rarity and Value, having always brought a high Price whenever they have appeared for Sale, the Publishers have thought they should perform an acceptable Service to the Public by reprinting them in a uniform, handsome, and modern Form. It cannot now be necessary to state the Importance and interesting Nature of this Work. The high Price for which it has always sold, is a sufficient Testimony of the Esteem in which it has been held. Holinshed's Description of Britain is allowed to contain the most curious and authentic Account of the Manners and Customs of our Island in the Reign of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, in which it was written. His History of the Transactions of the British Isles, during these Periods, possesses all the Force and Value of contemporary Evidence, collected by a most skilful Observer; and the peculiar Style and Orthography in which the Work is written, furnish a very interesting Document to illustrate the History of the English Language. The original Edition of the Chronicles of Holinshed, it is well known, was published by their Author in a mutilated State. A Number of Pages, which had obviously been printed with the rest of the Work, were found to be omitted, except in a few Copies obtained by some favoured Persons. In the present Edition, these Castrations are faithfully restored; and in order that the Purchaser may depend upon finding an exact as well as a perfect Copy, it has been a Law with the Publishers, not to alter a single Letter, but to print the Work with the utmost Fidelity from the best preceding Edition, with the Author's own Orthography, and with his marginal Notes. The only Liberty taken, has been to use the Types of the present Day, instead of the old English Letter of the Time of Elizabeth.