The general history of England, both ecclesiastical and civil : from the earliest accounts of time, to the reign of his present Majesty King William III. Taken from the most antient records, manuscripts, and historians. With memorials of the most eminent persons in church and state. As also the foundations of the noted monasteries, and both universities
James Tyrrell's 1700 general history of England, printed in London by W. Rogers, was a dense ecclesiastical and civil chronicle from earliest times to William III, dedicated to great persons and drawn from ancient records. Its pictures are a decorated historiated initial with foliage, a frontispiece of a niched arched gateway holding a king and statues, and a library shelf-mark plate with a New England house, offering a designer period-style ornament, classical architectural framing, and engraved typographic detail.
