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Hardcover. [1], xxx, [1: corrigenda], 256, 55, xl p.; 29 cm. -- At head of title-page: PAX -- verso: Subscriber's copy -- Large-paper issue [title continues] drawn from the archives of the houses of the said Congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and Lambspring in Germany, where are preserved the authentic acts and original deeds, etc. An: 1709. -- Outer leaves moderately foxed -- `A history of the English Benedictines in the 17th century, with lists of monks and obituaries, compiled from MS. memoirs at St. Gregory's Priory, Downside, written c. 1709.' (Keeler, Bibliography of British history, Stuart period, 1469; Kapsner, A Benedictine bibliography 12712, also with London: J. Hodges, 1881 as 12711, presumably the trade issue) Good edgeworn orig. brown violet cloth. Inner hinges shaken.