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Ware (James)

  • d. 1666
  • authors, scholars
  • (agents)
(Sir) James Ware, Irish scholar, historian and antiquarian
Ware, James, The antiquities and history of Ireland, vol. 1.2: Annals of the affairs of Ireland: from the first conquest by the English, in the reign of King Henry, II., unto the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Dublin: A. Crook, for Eliphal Dobson and Matthew Gunne, 1705.  

The use of separate pagination divides the treatment of the annals into three parts. The first part, covering the reigns of Henry II to Henry VI, is found on pp. 1-76. The second covers the reigns of Henry VII (pp. 1-56), Henry VIII (57-114), Edward VI (115-129) and Queen Mary (130-146) and contains an additional section about the life of George Browne (147-163). The third and final part is devoted to the reign of Queen Elizabeth (pp. 1-64). This is followed by Gesta Hibernorum (pp. 175-196).

Ware, James, The antiquities and history of Ireland, vol. 1.3: A commentary of the prelates of Ireland from the first conversion of the Irish nation of Christianity to the Christian faith down to our times, Dublin: A. Crook, for Eliphal Dobson and Matthew Gunne, 1705.  
There is separate pagination for each diocese: Armagh (pp. 1-70), Dublin (1-44), Cashel (1-55) and Tuam (1-28).
Ware, James, The antiquities and history of Ireland, vol. 1.4: Two books of the writers of Ireland, Dublin: A. Crook, for Eliphal Dobson and Matthew Gunne, 1705.
Ware, James, The antiquities and history of Ireland, Dublin: A. Crook, for Eliphal Dobson and Matthew Gunne, 1705.  
One volume in five parts, each with its own title page with date of printing given as 1704 or 1705. There is separate pagination for individual parts and even for sections within those parts. Pagination is sometimes lacking for preliminary matter and appendices.
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Ware, James, The antiquities and history of Ireland, vol. 1.1: Inquiries concerning Ireland and its antiquities, Dublin: A. Crook, for Eliphal Dobson and Matthew Gunne, 1705.  

After some preliminary matter (unpaginated), including a life of Sir James Ware, the Antiquities is found on pp. 1-154, followed by additional material on pp. 154-172 and further appendices (left unpaginated).

Ware, James, De praesulibus Hiberniae, commentarius: a prima gentis Hibernicae fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora, Dublin: John Crook, 1665.
Ware, James, De Hibernia et antiquitatibus eius, disquisitiones, E. Tyler, 1658.
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Ware, James, S. Patricio, qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit, adscripta opuscula, London: apud Johannem Crook, 1656.
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Ware, James, De scriptoribus Hiberniae, Dublin, 1639.
Ware, James (ed.), The historie of Ireland: collected by three learned authors, viz. Meredith Hanmer ..., Edmund Campion ... and Edmund Spenser, Dublin: Societie of Stationers, 1633.  
The original title is Two histories of Ireland. For slight variations in the issues that were printed in the same year, see A catalogue of the Bradshaw collection of Irish books in the University Library Cambridge, vol. 1: 6 (Hib. 4. 63. 1-7).


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