<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Folio. ff. [2] (blank), [14], pp. 390, ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: a-b⁶ A-3D⁴. Vellum-backed paper boards. Title within cartouche. Signature at the head of title page of John Hacket, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Headpieces, engraved initials. Ownership inscription of a Cluniac priory (1748) on title.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present work was a plagiarism of Isaac Casaubon’s then unpublished refusal of the Annals of Baronius, De rebus sacris (London, 1614; see Bib# 9075524/Fr3 325.1 in this collection), which was compiled by Richard Montagu (1577-1641), subsequently dean and archdeacon of Hereford, in 1612. Montagu deceptively used Casaubon’s further notes on Baronio in an extended critique of the Annals in 1622, without citing Casaubon as his source. See M. Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614. London, 1875, pp. 420ff; W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp; Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 18029.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039111539707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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