Angliae ruina, or, Englands ruine
Subtitle: represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome ... : 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 ... from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1648
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Clergy; History; Church of England
Other titles: Mercurius rusticus
Notes: Signatures: pi1 (engraved) A⁸ (- A8) a⁸ B-S⁸ (S8 blank); A-C⁸ A² B-G⁸ H⁶ (H6 blank).

Engraved illustrted half-title by William Faithorne with title: Mercurivs rusticus.

"Querela Cantabrigiensis" (pt. [2]) is also ascribed to Bruno Ryves; "Micro-chronicon" (pt. [3]) is a reprint, with additions, of Sir George Wharton's "Englands Iliads in a nut-shell" (cf. Madan 1794).

"Mercurius rusticus [nos. 18-21]" (pt. 1. sigs. O4-S7) has special t.p. with false imprint: Oxford : Printed in the yeare, 1646.

Also issued with A8 uncancelled, and without a⁸.

Madan 1890b

Wing (2nd ed.) R1446
Table of contents: title: Mercurius rusticus / Bruno Ryves. 1648; title: Querela Cantabrigiensis / John Barwick. 1647; title: Micro-chronicon / Sir George Wharton. 1647.