The chronicle of Fabian
Subtitle: whiche he nameth The concordance of histories newly perused and continued for the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the Seuenth to the ende of Queene Mary.
Contributors: Kingston, John, fl. 1553-ca. 1584.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Jhon Kyngston
Published: 1559
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- To 1485.; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.; France -- History.
Other titles: Seconde volume of Fabians chronicle, conteinyng the chronicles of Englande & of France from the beginning of the reigne of King Richard the Firste vntill the eande of the reigne of Charles the Nineth
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of P. Ashburnham.
STC (2nd ed.) 10664
Thacher, II, p. 100 (Miscellanea)
Vol. 1: [24], 369 [i.e. 368] p.; v. 2: [2], 571 [i.e. 572] p.
Both titles in illustrated borders.
Signatures: A-B⁶ a-z⁶ A-G⁶ H⁶, 2a-z⁶ 2A-3A⁶ 3B⁶(-B6).
Printed in double columns.
The work of Fabyan ends with the words (v.2, p. 525) "And here ... I make an ende of the seuenth parte and whole woorke, the seuenth daie of Nouember ... M.D.IIII. ... The seue[n]th parte ... from the first yere of William Conqueroure, to the last yere of Richarde the Third ..." The continuation, by another hand, has caption title: "Here followe the notes of the raignes of Kyng Henry the Seuenth, Kyng Henrie the Eight, Kyng Edwarde the Sixte, and Quene Marie: in soche order as Master Fabian hath vsed here before."  The account of the progress of Queen Elizabeth from the Tower to Westminster, her coronation, etc., differs from that given in Kingston's earlier ed. of the same year, the last  paragraph beginning, "The viii daye of Maye the Queenes Hyghnes rode to the Parliament ..."
LC copy bound in 1 v.