Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Thomas Percy (1765)

Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore, County Down was famous in his own time and best known today for his popular three-volume work Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), a collection of ballads and romances dating from the late medieval period to the seventeenth century.
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Plantae Favershamiensis

Edward Jacob (1710–1788) was an antiquarian and naturalist. In 1735 he moved to Faversham, Kent where he practised as a surgeon, also becoming mayor of the town on four occasions. Soon after his arrival Jacob took a keen interest in the history, geography and geology
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A Hand-book of Proverbs

A Hand-book of Proverbs: comprising an entire republication of Ray’s Collection of English Proverbs with large additions; compiled by Henry G. Bohn (1855) A proverb is a short expression of popular wisdom that offers practical advice or teaches a lesson. Proverbs, such as those found
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The Naval Chronicle Vols. 1-40

The Naval Chronicle was a British periodical published in forty volumes between January 1799 and December 1818. It was the most influential maritime journal of its day, published during a turbulent period when the Royal Navy was involved in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the
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Itinerarium Curiosum

or An account of the antiquitys and remarkable curiositys in nature or art observed through travels in Great Brittan by William Stukeley. London, 1724 Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765) was the most renowned English antiquary of the eighteenth century. In the era of the Enlightenment and
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