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COTTON (ROBERT)
An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London... Revised, Rectified in Sundry Mistakes, and Supplied with a Preface... by William Prynne

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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COTTON (ROBERT)

An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London... Revised, Rectified in Sundry Mistakes, and Supplied with a Preface... by William Prynne, Kirkleatham Library label, contemporary calf, rebacked [Wing C6489], small folio, William Leake, 1657

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Charles II appointed Prynne as keeper of the records in the Tower of London after the Restoration. The records were later under the care of the Public Record Office, and now the National Archive.

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