Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... EARLY CHRONICLES OF SHREWSBURY, 1372--1603. TRANSCRIBED AND ANNOTATED By Rev. W. A. LEIGHTON, B.A. (camb.), F.L.S., Ac. In the Library of the Royal Free Grammar School of Shrewsbury there has been long preserved a folio MS. volume generally known as "Dr. Taylor's MS." It is a folio 11 DEGREES inches by 8 inches, of 460 closely written pages. Prefixed is an elaborate Index, which has been torn away down to the letter E, and the end has been apparently similarly torn away. In this tattered condition Dr. Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield, when Head Master, found it, and in 1814 caused it to be substantially bound. The writing is that of the age of Elizabeth, and, from various personal expressions, evidently compiled by some person who lived through the reign of Elizabeth and the early part of that of James I. There is nothing throughout the volume which will indicate the writer, but a note in pencil by the late Rev. J. B. Blakeway states that "I have heard that it was given to Dr. Taylor by Mr. Lyster of Rowton," and it may have been written by some individual of that family who resided at the Council House, their property. It is an interesting gossiping Chronicle of the principal events which occurred in England, France, and other portions of Europe, and would be well worth printing entire. To each year are prefixed the names of the Bailiffs of Shrewsbury. I have transcribed all that relates to Shropshire and Shrewsbury, and have added a few notes to illustrate or explain the text. Dr. John Vol. Iii. Af Taylor bequeathed a portion of his Library to Shrewsbury School, and this MS. came with it. Dr. Taylor was Canon residentiary of St. Paul's, Chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln, and Archdeacon of Buckingham, a learned critic and philologist. He...
