Angliae ruina
Subtitle: or, Englands ruine, represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdom, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects in generall; but more 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, plundered, imprisoned, or banished 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, sieges, conflicts, 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: Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665; Barwick, John, 1612-1664
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1647
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Subjects: History
Other titles: Mercurius rusticus.; Generall bill of mortalitie.; Micro-chronicon.; Microchronicon.
Notes: Each part has a special t.p.

The first edition of the present work was published in 1646 under title: Mercurius rusticus: or, The countries complaint. -Cf. Madan, v.2 p. 430-432, etc.

The "Mercurius Rusticus" appeared originally in 1643 as a newsbook in numbers. The "Chronologie" was issued in 1645 under the title: Englands Iliads in a nvtshell. Or, A briefe chronologie [etc.]; in the 1646 edition of the present work, it had the title: Mercurius belgicus: or, A briefe chronologie [etc.] and was republished in Angliae ruina as "Micro-chronicon". The entire work with additions was published in 1647 under the title "Angliae ruina [etc.]. cf. Hazlitt.

"A generall bill of mortalitie, of the clergy of London ... or, A briefe martyrologie" ([pt. 2], p. 252-262) was written by Matthew Griffith.

For detailed description cf. F. Madan, Oxford books, v. 2, p. 430-33.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, R2446
Table of contents: title: Contents: Mercvrivs rvsticvs: or, The countries complaint of the murthers ... committed by the rebels. [S.l. : s.n.], 1648.; title: Mercurius rusticus: or, The countries complaint, of the sacriledges ... committed ... on the cathedrall churches ... Oxford, Printed in the yeare, 1646.; title: Querela Cantabrigiensis ... / [by John Barwick] [S.l. : s.n.], 1647; title: Micro-chronicon, or, A briefe chronology of the time and place of the battels, sieges, conflicts ... together with a catalogue of the lords .... [S.l. : s.n.], 1647.