IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279318 accession number: PB 132-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 17 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The printer's name is omitted from the imprint to vol. 2, which is entitled 'The history of abbies. Volume II.'. Titles within double ruled borders. Head- and tail- pieces, and initials; footnotes. Running-titles added in ms. & ms. annotations. Old classmark: 474. Binding: diced calf, blind rolled border & g. fillet; spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers; raised bands, g. lettering; marbled e.p.; a.e. sprinkled. Abbeys England Early works to 1800. Cathedrals England Early works to 1800. title: An history of the mitred Parliamentary abbies, and conventual cathedral churches. : Shewing the times of their respective foundations, and what alterations they have undergone. With some descriptions of their monuments, and dimensions of their buildings, &c. Together with a catalogue of their abbats, priors, &c. To which are annexed, several other lists of the principals of divers monasteries ; the number of monks at the surrender, and the names of the last abbats, priors, &c. who signed the same ; as far as they have come to hand. With an exact account of those religious men and women, and chantry priests, receiving pensions throughout England and Wales, An. 1553. A work, among other uses, necessary to give light to several charters sans date ; and helpful to such who shall treat of families and dignified persons. For whose benefit are subjoined large indexes. The whole extracted out of very curious manuscripts, &c. which have been many years collecting by the most eminent antiquaries ; and faithfully published. / by Browne Willis, Esq ; In two volumes. NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1815. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279318 DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Willis, Browne, maker: Bowyer, William, maker: Gosling, Robert, maker: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 2 v ; 23cm (8vo in 4s, 2 sigs).