The vnion of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre & Yorke beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme
Subtitle: with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the princes, bothe of the one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this deuision, and so successiuely proceadyng to the reigne of the high and prudent prince kyng Henry the eight, the vndubitate flower and very heire of both the sayd linages.
Contributors: Grafton, Richard, d. 1572?
Publisher: In officina Richardi Graftoni typis impress
Published: 1548
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.; Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547.; England -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Union of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke; Hall's chronicle
Notes: Signatures: [fleuron]4, A8, B-M6, N8, O-Z6, Aa-Ff6, Gg8, Hh-Rr6, AA-KK6, aaa-iii6, kkk8, AAa-ZZz6, AAA-XXX6.

"To the reader signed": Richard Grafton.

Black letter.

Of the first [250] leaves of this edition there were two impressions. The one which appears in the copy is the second, the initial paragraph words of leaves [1-196] being printed mostly in roman. Cf. Hazlitt's Collections and notes, 1876, p. 486.

Printer's name from colophon.

"The pitifull life of kyng Edward the. v.", "The politique gouernaunce of Kyng Henry the. vii.", and "The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the. VIII." (caption titles) each begin new foliation on AA1r, aaa1r, and AAa1r respectively.

Hall's work ended with 1532.  It was continued to the death of Henry VIII, from Hall's notes, by Richard Grafton.

Later editions published under the title: Hall's chronicle.

STC 12721.

Fisher stc copy: Prelim. leaves [1-4] (including t.p.), i-viii, xlii (7th group), and [1] at end wanting; t.p. information and colophon supplied in MS. and confirmed by EEBO.  Signature AAa1r signed a.1.