THE

British Chronologift;

COMPREHENDING

EVERY MATERIAL OCCURRENCE,
ECCLESIASTICAL, CIVIL, OR MILITARY,

With Proceffions at Coronations, Inftalments of the Military, Honours,
Marriages, Funerals of Sovereigns, &c. &c.

ALSO,

The Valuation of fuppreffed Religious Foundations at the Reformation; the Introduction
and Growth of Taxes, and Increase of the National-Debt; together with
the Price of Grain and Provifion at Different Periods

PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY, No. 46, IN FLEET-STREET.
M,DCC,LXXV.

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HE very great advantages which Hiftory has produced to mankind, are too numerous, as well as too generally known, to need a repetition in this place; but it has been the conduct of our best Hiftorians to have dwelt too much on the general defcription of great events, either to attend to what they might have thought little masters, or to be so exact in point of time, as particular information required: the CHRONOLOGIST therefore has been very judicioudly called in to the aid of the HISTORIAN; who, contenting himself in an humbler, though not less useful sphere, has given fyftem to defcription, and regularity to facts; and thus by erecting landing places (if we may fo exprefs ourselves) for the Reader's recollection, have affifted the memory in recovering those impreffions, which are but too subject to be worn out in the unchronicled fucceffion of events,

To arrange facts in the order they have happened, and to give to each its proper date, have been likewife very useful

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