William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent (1576)
Date
1576
Author
William
Lambarde
Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. and nowe increased by the addition of some things which the Authour him selfe hath obserued since that time
Publication place
London
Printer
Henrie Middleton
Publisher
Ralphe Newberie
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
- Old English
- place name
Summary
"The Saxon Characters, and their values" (ΒΆΒΆ3r), lists of place names, and chapters on towns and manors
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Tenham, in Saxon Tynham, that is to say, a Towne (or Hamlet) of ten houses, as Eightam, had the name of Eahtham, a Hamlet (or Towne) of eight dwellings. (p. 197)
sample: Tenham, in Saxon Tynham, that is to say, a Towne (or Hamlet) of ten houses, as Eightam, had the name of Eahtham, a Hamlet (or Towne) of eight dwellings. (p. 197)
Alston
XI.1
STC
15175
Other editions
1576: STC 15175.5 (variant of STC 15175);
1596: STC 15176 ("now increased and altered after the authors owne last copie"; Alston XI.2);
1640?: Wing L216 (Alston XI.3);
1656: Wing L216A (Alston XI.4)
1596: STC 15176 ("now increased and altered after the authors owne last copie"; Alston XI.2);
1640?: Wing L216 (Alston XI.3);
1656: Wing L216A (Alston XI.4)
Facsimiles
Lambarde, William. A Perambulation of Kent . Bath: Adams and Dart, 1970.
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Modern editions
Lambarde, William. A Perambulation of Kent, conteining the description, hystorie, and customes of that shire; written in the yeere 1570, first published in the year 1576, and now increased and altered from the author's owne last copie. Chatnam: Baldwin, 1826.
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Criticisms
Gottfried, Rudolf Brand. "Antiquarians at Work." Renaissance News. n.p.: n.p., 1958. 114-20.
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Terrill, Richard J. "William Lambarde: Elizabethan Humanist and Legal Historian." The Journal of Legal History 6.2 (1985): 157-78. view record
Berkhout, Carl T. "William Lambarde and Old English." Notes and Queries 47.4 (2000): 415-20. view record
Brackmann, Rebecca. The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. view record
Terrill, Richard J. "William Lambarde: Elizabethan Humanist and Legal Historian." The Journal of Legal History 6.2 (1985): 157-78. view record
Berkhout, Carl T. "William Lambarde and Old English." Notes and Queries 47.4 (2000): 415-20. view record
Brackmann, Rebecca. The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. view record
