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Largely a translation of Jean François Le Petit's La Grande Chronique. In this edition Grimeston includes a translation of Le Petit’s preface from "La grande chronique" and mentions in the translator’s preface that the continuation of the history is derived from "Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis" by Emmanuel van Meteren. ESTC notes that "the engraved title-page border and many of the fifty-seven portraits are signed by Christoffel van Sichem and were originally published in Le Petit’s "La grande chronique". Old ink ownership markings to title-page (P. Tyrwhitt(?) and others). STC 12376.