As it is ACTED AT THE Theatre in _Lincoln's-Inn-Fields_, BY His Majesty's Servants. * * * * * Written by Mr. _CONGREVE_. * * * * * _Audire est Operæ pretium, procedere recte Qui mæchis non vultis----_ Hor. Sat. 2. l. 1. _----Metuat doti deprensa.----_ Ibid. * * * * * L O N D O N: Printed for _Jacob Tonson_, within _Gray's-Inn-Gate_ next _Gray's-Inn-Lane_. 1700. Reduced Leaf in original, 6.5 × 8.5 inches. For an Englishman there is no single historical work with which it can be so necessary for him to be well and thoroughly acquainted as with Clarendon. SOUTHEY THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, Begun in the Year 1641. With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by the KING's blessed RESTORATION, and RETURN upon the 29^{th} of _May_, in the Year 1660. Written by the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON, Late Lord High Chancellour of _England_, Privy Counsellour in the Reigns of King CHARLES the First and the Second. * * * * * [Greek: Ktêma es aei.] Thucyd. _Ne quid Falsi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat._ Cicero. * * * * * VOLUME THE FIRST. * * * * * [Illustration] _O X F O R D_, Printed at the THEATER, _An. Dom._ MDCCII. Reduced Leaf in original, 11 × 17.5 inches.