BACON, John (Receiver of the First Fruits Office). Liber Regis; vel, Thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticum, London: printed for the author and sold by John Nichols, J. F. and C. Rivington, J. Robson and T. Cadell, 1786, 4°, contemporary tree calf (joints cracked), bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft with his signature to title and occasional manuscript corrections. With 6 others, including 5 volumes of Acts of Parliament. (7)

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BACON, John (Receiver of the First Fruits Office). Liber Regis; vel, Thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticum, London: printed for the author and sold by John Nichols, J. F. and C. Rivington, J. Robson and T. Cadell, 1786, 4°, contemporary tree calf (joints cracked), bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft with his signature to title and occasional manuscript corrections. With 6 others, including 5 volumes of Acts of Parliament. (7)

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Bacon's Liber Regis, a survey of the value of church livings with the names of their holders, was first published in 1711 as Liber valorum et decimarum ...by John Ecton. "In 1786 John Bacon ... having changed the title of the book to Liber Regis and made a few additions, published it as entirely his own work, without even revising the preface." (DNB)

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