J. 172
Brady’s introduction to old English history.
fol.
Not in 1815 Catalogue.
BRADY,
Robert.
An Introduction to the old English history, comprehended in three several tracts. The first, an answer to Mr. Petyt’s Rights
of the commons asserted; and to a book intituled, Jani Anglorum facies Nova; the second edition very much inlarged. The second,
an answer to a book intituled, Argumentum Antinormanicum, much upon the same subject; never before published. The third, the
exact history of the succession of the crown of England; the second edition, also very much inlarged. Together with an appendix
containing several records, and a series of great councils and parliaments before and after the Conquest, unto the end of
the reign of Henry the Third. And a glossary expounding many words used frequently in our antient records, laws and historians
. . . By Robert Brady, Doctor in Physick.
London: printed by
Tho. Newcomb, for
Samuel Lowndes,
mdclxxxiv
. [1684.]
DA130 .B83
First Collected Edition. Folio. 275 leaves, separate title for each tract, with continuous signatures and pagination; separate
signatures and pagination for the Appendix and the Glossary, separate signatures for the Index (unnumbered).
Lowndes I, 256.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 926.
STC B4194.
Original calf. Contemporary manuscript marginal and textual notes. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. The number on the bookplate has been marred by scratching and it is not possible
to assert that it was 413, the number of the entry for
Discourse on government by Brady which seems to have been listed in error, see no.
2701.
The original owner of this copy was Arthur Charlett, whose autograph signature
Ar. Charlett Col. Trin. is on the fly-leaf and whose bookplate is on the inside cover. On the inside cover is pasted down an ALS from Brady to Charlett reading as follows:
Worthy S
r
Yo
r friend came to me & gave an Acc
t. of S
r Henry Spelmans Views, but he being in hast, & my self Busy had no time to talke with me. As to yo
r other friend
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J. Tyrrell.|
as I have let him know by others wch he set upon me to p’vayl wh me to answer him
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so you may please to see him|
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that by his way of writing he may prove any thing. Tho’ in another method what he has sayd proves nothing. I have all my materials
ready, & shall answer him when I think fitt, & shall shew the world (or to so much of them as Concern me,) The Delusion of
his Dreams & phaps that he understands not what he writes about. I am
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Worthy S
r.
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Yo
r most assured humble ser.
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Robt Brady
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May 19
th. 94.
At the foot of this letter Charlett has written:
Superscribd To the Reverend D
r. Charlett Ma
r. of University College. Oxon.
Robert Brady, d. 1700, English historian and physician. The original edition of his answer to Petyt’s
Rights of the Commons Asserted
(q.v.) was published in 1681.
Arthur Charlett, 1655-1722, matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, and later became Master of University College. His friend James Tyrrell,
q.v. referred to by Brady in the letter quoted above, was the author of a Whig history written in opposition to the Tory history
of Brady, q.v. no. 346.
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