Being the Continuation to COOKE's Edition of
HUME AND SMOLLETT'S

HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

Superbly Embellished.

The Whole to contain upwards of Seventy ENGRAVINGS, including the PRINCIPAL EVENTS recorded in the HISTORY, alsothe Portraits of all the British Monarchs, from WILLIAM the Conqueror to his present MAJESTY, and other illuftrious Characters, habited in the Dreffes of the Times in which they lived, The Portraits are highly finished in Stippled Engraving, by W.RIDLEY, whose Abilitics in this peculiar and beautiful Mode of Engraving, are too well known to need any Eulogium.

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THE

HISTORY OF

ENGLAND,

FROM

THE PEACE IN

1783.

TO THE PRESENT TIME:

BY

T. A. LLOYD, Esq.
Defigned as a

Supplement

TO

HUME, SMOLLET, AND
CORMICK.