A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.

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Title: A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.
Author: Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed for Daniel Frere ...,; 1643.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- History.; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.
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HE Founded the Abbeys of Cogshall in Essex; of Furneys in Lancashire; of Hur∣guilers and Feversham in Kent; at Heigham in Kent, a House of blacke Nunnes; also an house for Nunnes at Carew: His Queene Matild builded the Hospitall of Saint Katherines by the Tower of London: A knight called Sir William of Mount Fit∣chet, Founded the Abbey of Stratford Langthorne, within foure miles of London; William of Ypre Founded Boxeley Abbey in Kent; Robert Earle of Ferrers, Founded the Abbey of Merivall in Warwickshire; and in the same Shire, Robert Earle of Glo∣cester, the Abbey of Nonne Eaten. Also by others were Founded the Abbeys of Tiltey; of Rievall; of Newborough and Beeland; of Garedon in L••ycestershire; of Kirkstead in Yorkeshire: and divers others in other places, so that more Abbeys were erected in his dayes, then had beene within the space of a hundred yeares before.