TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS EDITION; SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH HISTORY; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
This book presents a thorough edition of a so-far unpublished manuscript preserved at St Alban's English College in Valladolid, Spain. Written by Philip M. Perry, who was rector of this Catholic seminary from 1768 until his death in 1774, the Sketch of the Ancient British History provides a historical account stretching from the arrival of the Romans in Britain up to and including St Columba's Christianizing mission in the sixth century and possesses an intrinsic value insofar as it is genuin ..
