A compendious history for the promoting of seriousness, knowledg, and mirth.
Subtitle: In three parts, viz. I. Ecclesiastical: containing remarkable passages of some antient fathers, famous martyrs, and divines. With an account of the several professions of them in England.  For serious entertainment on the Lord's Day.  II. Civil: of the kings of England, the twelve Caesars, with the most memorable and comical passages that happened in their reigns, and notes upon them.  Design'd as entertainment for working-days.  III. Fabulous and facetious: of pagan gods and heroes, of Mahometans, &c.  For diversion on playdays and holydays.  The whole intermixt with ingenious poems, &c. of some of the greatest wits, comical storys on many pleasant subjects, with other entertaining things, particularly George Fox's will.  For the cure and diversion of sickly and melancholy persons.
Publisher: J. Marshal
Published: 1702
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163