VIEW OF THE HARBOUR AND PORT OF BALACLAVA.

Balaclava is situated on the Black Sea, in Taurica, opposite to Sinope in Asia.

ANCIENT CAPITAL OF CRIM TARTARY.

This plate represents a view of Eski Crim, the ancient Capital of Taurica, with the Sea of Azoph in the distance.

VIEW OF CAFFA, OR THEODOSIA.

Caffa was built by the Greeks in the fifth Century, upon the ruins of Theodosia. In the year 1474 it fell into the hands of the Turks, and in 1774 was ceded by the Turks to Russia, since which it has regained its ancient name of Theodosia.

On the last page of the first volume is printed a letter in the Latin language, addressed by the Senate of the University of Cambridge to the author of this work, and dated III. Id. Jul. 1799.

The Appendix, mentioned in the Introduction, as containing a descriptive catalogue of the marbles, gems, paintings, and drawings, not engraved in this work, does not appear ever to have been printed.

The first volume, though dated 1794, appears from a short notice in the second, not to have been distributed to the author's friends till the year 1798, as Sir Richard Worsley there says that the favourable reception it experienced induced him to complete his original design.

[This Analysis of the Museum Worsleyanum has been made from a copy in the Library of the ROYAL INSTITUTION, which belonged to the late Thomas Astle, Esq. having been presented to him by the Author; and collated with a copy in the possession of Mr. White, in Fleet Street. There were only 250 copies of this book prinied, and none were ever sold during the Author's lifetime.

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In the beginning of the year 1804, not more than 27 had been presented by Sir R. Worsley to his friends, and he purchased for £200 a copy from the executors of one of the Gentlemen to whom he had presented it, and whose books on his death were sold, rather than the "Museum" should go into the hands of a Bookseller. The expenses attending this publication, including those of his Travels, are said to have amounted to upwards of Twenty-seven Thousand Pounds.

The first Tome of an exact Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English Kings supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in, and over all Spiritual or Religious Affairs, Causes, Persons, as well as Temporal, within their Realms of England, Scotland, Ireland, and other Dominions; from the original Planting of Christian Religion therein, and reign of Lucius our first Christian King, till the death of King Richard I. A. D. 1199, &c. By William Prynne, Esq. a Bencher and Reader of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. Printed for the Author, by Tho. Radcliffe, Fol. 1666. pages 1251, be sides Dedication, &c.

It has a large graved Frontispiece, wherein the author appears presenting his book to King Charles II, and the Pope with his mitre falling, &c. with abundance more of figures attending on them, that take up an explanation of two pages.

Then follows a copious Dedication to the king, wherein the author acknowledges that his obligations to his Majesty, his Father and Grandfather, by virtue of the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, together with his Majesty's conferring on him without his solicitation, the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower with an honorary

pension, as also his Majesty's encouragement, and that of some honourable Lords engaged him in this Herculean task. After this, we have his Epistle to the Readers, especially of the Long Robe, wherein he says, I here present you with the first tome, (though not first book,) by way of introduction to the whole work, reserved till last, of an exact Chronological Vindication, &c.

In this first Tome or second book, the author has chronologically set forth, 1. The original preaching and planting of Christian Religion in our Island. 2. King Lucius his conversion to Christianity, with his supreme exercise of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. 3. The Roman Emperors' claim and administration thereof while they governed this Isle, especially Constantine the Great, son of Helen, the first Christian Queen, and of the Pope's forged donation from that Emperor. 4. The same supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction exercised by our British Kings upon all emergent occasions after the desertion of the Romans, till the expulsion of the Britons by the Saxons. 5. The conversion of our Saxon kings to Christianity by Augustine the Monk, by whom the Pope began his encroachments upon our British Bishops, Kings and Churches, with their resistance thereof; also the claim and practice of the said ecclesiastical jurisdiction by our Saxon Christian Kings, till supplanted by the Danes. 6. The like claimed and exercised by the Danes; likewise by Edward the Confessor, and Harold, with their opposition of papal impositions. 7. The said sovereign ecclesiastical authority claimed and executed by our first Norman Kings, till the end of King Richard I, wherewith the author concludes this Tome, including many oppositions made against the Popes and their instruments, particularly Anselm and Thomas Becket, with the practices of other Popish Prelates against their King 8. Also the Institution of Archbishopricks and Bishopricks in England, Ireland and Scotland; the subor

dination of those in Ireland and Scotland to those of Canterbury and York, with the contests of these two primacies against each other. 9. Instances of the Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Monks, Nuns, &c. their pride, covetousness, ambition, worldliness, simony, perjury, treachery, hatred, malice, bribery, injustice, corruptions, incontinency, abuses of excommunications, and other ecclesiastical censures; their great neglect of all religious duties, contempts of their own Canons, Bulls, Decretals, during these Kings' reigns, with the endeavours used to redress them. 10. The attempts of Popes and Prelates to introduce their canon laws and decretal, to advance their authority, and trample down our municipal laws, kings' prerogatives, and people's liberties, with the banishment thereof out of the realm. 11. A Vindication of the right of our kings to the sovereign feodal dominion of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and refutation of the forged claims thereto by the Popes, &c. 12. The Bulls, Letters, of several popes and legates to our own and other princes, to advance their authority, oppress, fleece, and invade their realms under pretence of relieving the Holy Land against the Saracens; to tax, censure, command or absolve at pleasure, and wreak their malice on those who complied not with their impositions. 13. Their canonizing Anselm, Becket, and other prelates, as saints, martyrs, &c. and adoring them more than GoD or CHRIST himself, for their treasons against their princes, to advance the mitre above the crown, and encourage the like rebellions by the examples of these sainted traitors, and the pilgrimages to their shrines. 14. The intolerable pride, insolence, oppressions, rapines, &c. of our Popish Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergymen, when promoted to the highest secular offices, and trusted with the temporal and spiritual sword, which made them double tyrants; with the Canons of the Popes and censures of popish writers

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against such their worldly employments in former ages. 15. The true original ground of erecting most monasteries by our Kings and others, to expiate their adulteries, rapes, murders, or impieties, merit salvation, save or redeem their souls from purgatory. With the uncleanness, whoredoms, adulteries of popish prelates, priests, monks, nuns, through the prohibition of marriages; and of the ancient suppres sion of Monasteries, (for such impunities) by our kings. 16. The grievances and complaints of foreign princes, against Popes and their legates' usurpations, extortions, unjust sentences, excommunications, interdicts, deprivations relating to our kings, or registered in our histories. 17. Transcripts of many laws and charters of Christian princes, evidencing their sovereign prerogative over all ecclesiastical affairs and persons, as exemplified in the Charta Antique, and other Rolls in the Tower of London; all other their records and writs before King John relating to their ecclesiastical or civil government being long since perished, except some copies of them in some old Leiger Books, belonging to monasteries or historians already printed. Wherefore this first tome consists chiefly of historical and other collections and some charters of our kings not form erly printed; whereas all succeeding it, (especially 3, 4, 5,) will be almost wholly made up of useful, pertinent, and rare records, not hitherto published, unknown to most antiquaries and lawyers; "which through God's assistance, by your kind acceptation," says our author," of the tomes now published, I shall be encouraged to communicate to the world with all possible expedition, for the honour of our king, kingdoms, church and religion."

At the end of this volume is an Advertisement to the Reader, intimating that the late dreadful fire (of London) having in three days space turned 88 Parishes and their Churches, with the Cathedral Church of this glorious city, to ashes; and among other losses and mischiefs to the