Title: Palæographia Britannica : or, Discourses on antiquities in Britain. Number II
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Full title:</b> Palæographia Britannica: or, Discourses on antiquities in Britain. Number II: Origines Roystonianæ, Part II. or a defence of lady Roisia de Vere Foundress of Roiston, against the calumny of Mr. Parkin rector of Oxburgh. Wherein his pretended answer is fully refuted: the former opinion further confirm’d and illustrated. To which occasionally are added, many curious matters in antiquity: and six copper-plates. By William Stukeley Rector of All-Saints in Stamford. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 4to. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [6], v, [1], iv, 135, [1], f. [1] (blank), ff. 6 (plates, 2 folded). Signatures: [pi]8 A-R4 ((A1 and A2 mis-signed A2 and A3). Calf. Spine on 5 bars, double gilt filet on boards, front board and blank are loose. Contains illustrations, headpieces. Inscribed on front pastedown ‘To Miss Mathews from the author.’ Manuscript note and signature on title page of Job Lousley, Hampstead Norris Berks, 1845. Errata crossed in same ink. Notes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Defense of William Stukeley (1687-1765) of his Palaeographia Britannica I (1743) against an attack by the Revd Charles Parkin. Stukeley’s "Palaeographia Britannica" consists of 3 parts published separately between 1743 and 1752. The first part was an account of the medieval antiquities unearthed at the "Oratory of Lady Roisia, Foundress of Royston, Discovered at Royston in August 1742". The Reverend Charles Parkin published his Answer as an argument against the interpretation of these finds in 1744, arguing that they were nothing to do with the Norman Roisia family but probably Saxon, and the present work was a response to that. See English Short Title Catalogue Online, citation T144383.



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