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Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
by William Harrison, Raphael Holinshed, John Hooker
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en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2013-04-11
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the authors
William Harrison
1534–1593
Best remembered for his vivid portrait of everyday Tudor life, this 16th-century English clergyman helped give later readers one of the clearest windows into Elizabethan England. His writing in Holinshed’s Chronicles blends curiosity, detail, and a strong sense of how ordinary people lived.
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Raphael Holinshed
Best known for helping compile one of the great histories of Tudor England, this 16th-century chronicler left behind a book that later writers, including Shakespeare, eagerly mined for stories. His work helped shape how generations imagined the histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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John Hooker
d. 1601
A Tudor-era civic leader, legal writer, and chronicler of Ireland, he helped shape how Elizabethan government and history were recorded. Best known for his work on parliamentary matters and for preserving Irish state papers, he left behind a vivid window into 16th-century public life.
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