Analecta ecclesiasticarum exercitationum Collectore Richardo Montacutio

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The present work was a plagiarism of Isaac Casaubon’s then unpublished refusal of the Annals of Baronius, De rebus sacris (London, 1614; see Bib# 9075524/Fr3 325.1 in this collection), which was compiled by Richard Montagu (1577-1641), subsequently dean and archdeacon of Hereford, in 1612. Montagu deceptively used Casaubon’s further notes on Baronio in an extended critique of the Annals in 1622, without citing Casaubon as his source. See M. Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614. London, 1875, pp. 420ff; W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 18029.

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