summarie

Updated: May 17, 2025

He made large collections of old books and manuscripts, and wrote and ed. several works of importance and authority, including The Woorkes of Geoffrey Chaucer, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles , afterwards called Annales of England, ed. of the chronicles of Matthew Paris and others, of Holinshed's Chronicle, and A Survey of London . It is sad to think that the only reward of his sacrifices and labours in the public interest was a patent from James I. to collect "among our loving subjects their voluntary contributions and kind gratuities."

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

VII. In 1641, a volume was published under the following title: "A SUMMARIE VIEW of the GOVERNMENT both of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT; whereby the EPISCOPAL GOVERNMENT of CHRIST'S CHURCH is vindicated," out of the rude draughts of Launcelot Andrews, late Bishop of Winchester.

Izaak Walton - Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2

The application of which sentence vnto our selues I here omit, hastening vnto the summarie recapitulation of other matters contained in this worke.

Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 : Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.