Historical Documents

by Glenn McDavid

• Irish Historical Documents. Includes several Annals translated from Irish, and other documents:
  • Philip O'Sullivan Beare, Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth, 1621
  • Edmund Spenser, A View of The Present State of Ireland, 1596
  • Edmund Spenser, A View of The Present State of Ireland, 1633. Later edition.
• Plates from The Image of Irelande, by John Derrick (London, 1581).
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West
• Domestic Annals of Scotland
• King James VI, Basilikon Doron. Advice by King James VI to his son, from 1598.
• A Letter to Pope Urban VIII, from Iain M�ideartach, Chief of Clanranald, 1626.
• The Destruction of Magdeburg (1630). An account by the Burgomeister.
• Articles of Warre 1644. How closely they were followed is another issue. Certainly Article XV did not have much effect when the Irish surrendered at Philiphaugh in 1645.
• The Grameid (c. 1691)
• Works of Martin Martin.
• Jacobite documents. Note the blatantly partisan introduction.
• Act of Proscription: 1747
• Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Lawes and Ordinances militarie, 1586
• The library of the Linacre School of Defence has several interesting works on fencing and related topics.

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