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2 results in Cambridge Library Collection - History

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
  • With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
  • Arthur Phillip
  • Published online:
    05 September 2015
    Print publication:
    27 April 2015
  • This work, first published in 1789, is an edited compilation of official papers, journals and illustrations relevant to the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia and the founding of Port Jackson on Sydney Cove, and of the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), a sailor of wide experience in both the Royal Navy and the Portuguese fleet, accepted the post of commander of the fleet and governor of the new colony in 1786, and the eleven ships arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. This account begins with a note on Phillip's career, and discusses earlier British colonisation, before describing the preparations for, and progress of, the voyage. The fascinating documentation continues with materials on the founding of the colony, problems with the convict workmen, encounters with native Australians, and with the local wildlife, all illustrations of the birth of one of the world's great cities.

Ancient Laws and Institutes of England
  • Comprising Laws Enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings from Aethelbirht to Cnut
  • Volume 2, Containing the Ecclesiastical Laws
  • Edited by Benjamin Thorpe
  • Published online:
    05 May 2012
    Print publication:
    22 March 2012
    First published in:
    1840
  • Originally published for the Record Commissioners in 1840, this two-volume work remains a standard source for scholars of Anglo-Saxon and early Norman legal history. Benjamin Thorpe (1781?–1870) was a respected and prolific scholar and translator of Old English, whose publications in the field earned him a civil list pension in 1835. Trained in Copenhagen under Rasmus Rask, Thorpe advocated a scientific approach to philology, and this is reflected in the thoroughness of the notes, commentary, and concordance appended to the sources reprinted here. In Volume 2, the ecclesiastical laws from the seventh to the tenth centuries are reproduced in the original languages. There is a parallel translation of the Anglo-Saxon text, although the original sources in Latin remain untranslated. This volume also contains a comprehensive glossary to both parts of the book.