THE BATTLE OF NIBLEY GREEN: From the MSS. of A Templar; with a Preface, Notes, and other Poems.

xxv + 326pp, small 8vo, original embossed cloth, small fragment missing from head and foot of spine, top corner of boards bruised, several small holes to front endpaper and title-page, now slightly browned. 'The subject of the principal poem is an encounter which took place on 20 March 1470 between William, Lord Berkeley and Viscount Lisle, arising out of a claim by the Talbot de Lisles to certain manors in the possession of the Berkeleys. The notes (which cover about a third of the book) relate to the forest laws, vilenage, Kingswood forest, Philip Mede and John Shipward, merchants of Bristol, and miscellaneous matters.' See Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection. No 9785. --- Please e- mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).