Erōologia Anglorum. Or, An help to English history Containing a succession of all the kings of England, and the English-Saxons, the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the arch-bishops, bishops, dukes, marquesses, and earles, within the said dominions. In three tables. By Robert Hall, Gent.

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Erōologia Anglorum. Or, An help to English history Containing a succession of all the kings of England, and the English-Saxons, the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the arch-bishops, bishops, dukes, marquesses, and earles, within the said dominions. In three tables. By Robert Hall, Gent.
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Peter Heylyn, 1600-1662.
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London :: by T. and R. Cotes, for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street, over against Saint Dunstans-Church,
1641.
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Nobility -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"Erōologia Anglorum. Or, An help to English history Containing a succession of all the kings of England, and the English-Saxons, the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the arch-bishops, bishops, dukes, marquesses, and earles, within the said dominions. In three tables. By Robert Hall, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43536.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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The Princes of it, of the bloud Royall of England.

WALES thus brought under the obedi∣ence of the Kings of England, hath since beene commonly the honourary title and possession of their eldest sonnes. Not that they challenge it, as of due belonging to them; but take it from their Fathers as of speciall Grace, by solemne creation and in∣vesture, tenendum sibi & Haeredibus suis Re∣gibus Augliae, to hold to them and their heires Kings of England: our Kings not being wil∣ling to deprive themselves of such a power of gratifying and obliging their eldest sonnes, as they saw occasion. Edward 2. who had been summoned by his Father unto the Parliament by the name of Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester: summoned his eldest sonne (King

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Edward 3.) by no other name then Earle of Chester and Flint. Edward 3. first used the ceremony of creation, by letters Patents, and investiture, which hath since continued: and for the want of which, Edward 6. Queene Mary and Queen Elizabeth however in their severall turnes, they have beene called Prin∣ces and Princesses of Wales, were not truely such. Those which were so created, either by Parliamentary Writ or especiall Charter, are these that follow.

A. Ch.  
 1Edward of Carnarvon eldest sonne of King Edward the first.
13442Edward the black Prince, eldest son of King Edward the third.
13773Richard of Burdeaux, eldest sonne unto the black Prince.
13994Henry of Monmouth, eldest sonne of King Henry the fourth.
14545Edward of Westminster, onely son of King Henry the sixth.
14726Edward of Westminster, eldest son of King Edward the fourth.
14837Edward Earle of Salisbury, eldest sonne of King Richard the third.
14928Arthur, the eldest sonne of King Henry the seventh.
15069Henry Duke of Yorke second sonne to King Henry the seventh, after K. Henry the eighth.
161010Henry, eldest sonne of King Iames

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the first Monarch of Great Britaine.
161611CHARLES Duke of Yorke▪ second sonne of King Iames, now the second Monarch of Great Britaine.

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