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ecclesiarum antiquitates (1639) which gave an account of the sup-
posed visit of St Patrick to Rome, and his most famous work Annales
veteris testamenti, published in London in 1650 with a second volume
appearing in 1654. It bore the impressive and long title: Annales
veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti: una cum rerum
Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici princi-
pio usque ad Maccabaicorum initia producto, and became one of the
most influential and significant topics published in the seventeenth
century. Several imprints were printed simultaneously by J. Flesher
for a number of London booksellers including L. Sadler, who had
his premises in the district of Little Britain, G. Bedell of the Middle
Temple, and J. Crook and J. Baker of St Paul's Churchyard, all of whose
names were carried on the bottom of the title page of their respective
imprints. Later Latin editions under the title Annales veteris et novi
testamenti ... appeared in various editions from 1658; a Paris edition
appeared in 1673, and last year a handsome copy of the 1722 Geneva
edition was offered for sale priced at over $1,000.
The 1650 topic was translated into English in 1658 as The
Annals of the World. Deduced from the Origin of Time, and contin-
ued to the beginning of the Emperour Vespasians Reign, and the totall
Destruction and Abolition of the Temple and Common-wealth of the
Jews. Containing the Histoire of the Old and New Testament, with
that of the Macchabees. Also all the most Memorable Affairs of Asia
and Egypt, and the Rise of the Empire of the Roman Caesars, under
C. Julius, and Octavianus. Collected From all History, as well as
Sacred, as Prophane, and Methodically digested, and printed by
E. Tyler for J. Crook and G. Bedell, booksellers. It is simpler to refer
to it as Annals of the World.
WHAT DID USSHER ACTUALLYWRITE?
Over the three and a half centuries that have elapsed since the publica-
tion of Ussher's chronology he has often been denigrated for his cal-
culations. Some early commentators did not agree with his findings,
but he did find support among other contemporaries including the
