The history of the life and acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, the first bishop of London, and the second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively in the reign of Q. Elizabeth

London: John Hartley, 1710. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary full paneled calf, spine with 6 raised bands, red morocco spine label; front joint crack but still firmly attached by cords, calf scuffed. A very good copy with browning to the flyleaf, title and a few additional leaves toward the end of the book. From the library of Charles Tyler Prouty, with his bookplate as well as the armorial bookplate of the Finborough library. First edition. Grindal (1519-1583) was both a church and political leader of sixteenth-century England. Strype (1643-1787), also a clergyman, apparently inherited a collection of manuscripts and letters from which he wrote a number of works important for the study of sixteenth-century political and ecclesiastical England.