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Harrison's Chronology
By H. COTTON. (Thurles, Ireland)
William Harrison, a native of London, chaplain to Sir William Brooke, Baron Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, composed a *Description of Britain and of England*; and likewise translated Hector Boethius's *Description of Scotland*, from the Scottish version of John Bellenden. Both these pieces are printed in Holinshed's *Chronicles*, 2 vols. fol. 1587. In the prefaces Harrison speaks of a work on *Chronology*, "which I have yet in hand." Has that work ever been printed? I discovered the manuscript of it last year, in the Diocesan Library of Derry, in Ireland; but did not ascertain *who*…
Topics: Chronology, Historical Descriptions, Translation
Locations: London, Cinque Ports, Derry, Ireland, Scotland, England