Angliae ruina, or, Englands ruine, represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects ... particularly upon the churches, colledges, clergie, and scholars of the same : containing two briefe catalogues of such heads and fellowes of colledges in the University of Cambridge, and other learned and pious divines, within the city of London, as have been ejected ... for their constancie in the Protestant religion, and loyalty to their soveraigne : whereunto is added, a chronologie of the time and place of all the battails ... and other remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majesty and the Parliament : with a catalogue of such persons of quality, as have been slain on either party, from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647.
Contributors: Barwick, John, 1612-1664.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.; Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1647
Place of publication: [Oxford?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: University of Cambridge -- History; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
Other titles: Englands ruine; Querela Cantabrigiensis; Micro-chronicon
Work titles: Mercurius rusticus.
Notes: Anonymous.  "Mercurius rusticus" is by Bruno Ryves ; "Querela Cantabrigiensis" is by John Barwick (though sometimes erroneously attributed to Bruno Ryves; cf. DNB); and "Micro-chronicon" is by Sir George Wharton. Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Added engr. t.p.: Mercurius rusticus, the countrys complaint recounting the sad events of this unparraleld [sic] warr.

First published (1646) with title: Mercurius rusticus, or, The countries complaint. The "Mercurius rusticus" appeared originally in 1643 as a newsbook in numbers. "Micro-chronicon" fist published (1645) with title: "Englands Iliads in a nutshell"; it was reissued in 1646 with title: "Mercurius Belgicus".

"Mercurius rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the murthers, robberies, plunderings, and other outrages ..."; "Mercurius rusticus, or, The countries complaint, of the sacriledges ... committed ... on the cathedrall churches ...";   "Querela Cantabrigiensis ..."; and "Micro-chronicon .." have each a special t.p., dated 1646 or 1647.

Wing, R2446.

Madan, 1890b-b.

Fisher copy: Preliminary p. [19-30] (including t.p. to Mercurius rusticus) wanting.
Table of contents: value: [Pt. 1] Mercurius rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the murthers, robberies, plunderings, and other outrages, committed by the rebells on His Majesties faithfull subjects, printed in the yeare 1648.  A generall bill of mortalitie, of the clergy of London ... from the yeare 1641 to this present yeare 1647 ..., or, A brief martyrologie ... / [by Matthew Griffith].; value: [pt. 2] Mercurius rusticus, or, The countries complaint, of the sacriledges ... committed ... on the cathedrall churches ... Oxford, Printed in the yeare, 1646.; value: [pt. 3] Querela Cantabrigiensis ...  Anno. Dom. 1646.; value: [pt. 4] Micro-chronicon, or, A briefe chronology of the ... battels ...Together, with a catalogue of the ... slain ... Printed in the yeare, 1647.