A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, From Egbert the Great to the Revolution: CONSISTING OF CHARACTERS DISPOSED IN DIFFERENT CLASSES, AND ADAFTED TO A METHODICAL CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVED BRITISH HEADS: INTENDED AS AN ESSAY TOWARDS REDUCING OUR BIOGRAPHY TO SYSTEM, and INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF ANECDOTES, AND MEMOIRS OF A GREAT NUMBER OF PERSONS, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL WORK. WITH A PREFACE, SHEWING THE UTILITY OF A COLLECTION OF ENGRAVED PORTRAITS TO SUPPLY THE BY THE REV. J. GRANGER, VICAR OF SHIPLAKE, IN OXFORDSHIRE. Animum picturâ pascit inani.-Virg. FIFTH EDITION, WITH UPWARDS of four HUNDRED ADDITIONAL LIVES. IN SIX VOLUMES: LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BAYNES AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW: AND SOLD BY W. CLARKE, NEW BOND STREET; J. MAJOR, FLEET STREET; J. AND J. ARCH, 1824. |