The antique description and account of the city of Exeter: in three parts. Part I. Containing the antient History, &c. of the City; together with Relations of the sundry great Assaults and Sieges it, Time after Time, sustain'd; and most especially by the conjoin'd Rebels of Devonshire and Cornwall, in 1549; the various Circumstances of which long and dreadful Siege are amply and minutely detailed. Part II. Containing a large and curious Account of the Antiquity, Foundation, and Building, of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter. To which is added a regular and orderly Catalogue, with authentic Memoirs, of all the Bishops, down to Bishop John Wolton, in 1583. then living. Part III. Contains the Offices and Duties (as of Old) of those particular Sworn Officers, &c. of the City, viz. a Freeman, the Mayor, Stewards, Receiver, Recorder, the Common Council and every of them, an Alderman, Chamberlain, Town-Clerk, the Serjeants, &c. All written purely by John Vowell, alias Hoker, Gent. Chamberlain, and Representative in Parliament, of the same by John Hooker
The antique description and account of the city of Exeter: in three parts. Part I. Containing the antient History, &c. of the City; together with Relations of the sundry great Assaults and Sieges it, Time after Time, sustain'd; and most especially by the conjoin'd Rebels of Devonshire and Cornwall, in 1549; the various Circumstances of which long and dreadful Siege are amply and minutely detailed. Part II. Containing a large and curious Account of the Antiquity, Foundation, and Building, of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter. To which is added a regular and orderly Catalogue, with authentic Memoirs, of all the Bishops, down to Bishop John Wolton, in 1583. then living. Part III. Contains the Offices and Duties (as of Old) of those particular Sworn Officers, &c. of the City, viz. a Freeman, the Mayor, Stewards, Receiver, Recorder, the Common Council and every of them, an Alderman, Chamberlain, Town-Clerk, the Serjeants, &c. All written purely by John Vowell, alias Hoker, Gent. Chamberlain, and Representative in Parliament, of the same

John Hooker

The antique description and account of the city of Exeter: in three parts. Part I. Containing the antient History, &c. of the City; together with Relations of the sundry great Assaults and Sieges it, Time after Time, sustain'd; and most especially by the conjoin'd Rebels of Devonshire and Cornwall, in 1549; the various Circumstances of which long and dreadful Siege are amply and minutely detailed. Part II. Containing a large and curious Account of the Antiquity, Foundation, and Building, of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter. To which is added a regular and orderly Catalogue, with authentic Memoirs, of all the Bishops, down to Bishop John Wolton, in 1583. then living. Part III. Contains the Offices and Duties (as of Old) of those particular Sworn Officers, &c. of the City, viz. a Freeman, the Mayor, Stewards, Receiver, Recorder, the Common Council and every of them, an Alderman, Chamberlain, Town-Clerk, the Serjeants, &c. All written purely by John Vowell, alias Hoker, Gent. Chamberlain, and Representative in Parliament, of the same

John Hooker with Andrew Brice

202 pages first pub 1575 (view editions) user-added

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A compilation of 'The description of the cittie of Excester', originally published ca. 1575, and two other works not previously published.

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