| Henry Huth - Autographs - 1880 - 400 pages
...states, and a few drawings and etchings are inserted. There are also numerous plates on the letterpress. BAKER, SIR R. A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Goverment (sic) unto the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King Charles. London, 1643. Folio. Portrait... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...pieces in defence of the theatre. His principal work, however, was that already referred to. entitled 'A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of the Romans' Governmtnt •unto the Death of King James.' ThU work, which appeared in 164!, 'the author complacently... | |
| William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...period very nearly saw the end of the last of the Chroniclers, Sir Richard Baker, 1568-1645, whose work, 'A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time...Romans' Government unto the Death of King James,' was published in 1641. Baker's name, though not his fame, has been kept alive by his connection with... | |
| Madras city, govt. mus, libr - 1881 - 178 pages
...Bain, A. Mind and Body, the theories of their relation. 1 vol. 8vo. London Baker, Sir Richard, Kt. A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Romans Government to the death of King James the First, with a continuation to the year 1660. 1 vol. folio. London Balfour,... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - English literature - 1882 - 768 pages
...letter, А— Ее 4 in eights, and 2 leaves between Dd and Ее marked a. BAKER, SIR RICHARD, Knight. A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romane Goveruieiit unto the Raigne of our Soveraigue Lord King charles. Containing all Passages of... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...I. His title to fame is due to his writings. Baker's Chronicle; Sir Richard Baker published in 1641 "a chronicle of the kings of England from the time...Romans' government unto the death of King James." Bantam; a province forming the western extremity of Java. The first cargo of tea ever brought to England... | |
| Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1885 - 498 pages
...executed by Baker in 1642 under the direction of a bookseller named Whittaker. Baker's principal work was a ' Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time...the Romans Government unto the Death of King James,' 1043. The author describes the book as having been ' collected with so great care and diligence, that... | |
| New Zealand gen. assembly, libr - 1885 - 498 pages
...English Chronicles, Memorials, &c. ALLEN, G. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Fcp. 8vo. London, BAKER, Sir Richard. Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of...the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James, containing all Passages of State and Church, &c. ; whereunto is added, The Reign of King Charles the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 pages
...position, but becoming security for his wife's relatives was ruined, and died in the Fleet Prison. His " Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of...the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James " was greatly admired by himself and by country gentlemen. In his hall window. In Grosse's "Olio" (1793)... | |
| Mrs. Burton Harrison - Plantation life - 1890 - 324 pages
...medal lies a tome bound in vellum, showing the autograph and book-plate of Guy the first settler. It is "A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Romans Government unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles, containing all passages of State and Church, with all other... | |
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