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John Rous

(Rous, John, 1411?-1491)

John Rous (c. 1411/20 – 24 January 1492) was an English historian and antiquary, most noted for his Historia Regum Angliae ("History of the Kings of England"), which describes ancient British and English rulers from Brutus to King Henry VII. His historical work is now considered to have "displayed no critical faculty" and to have made credulous the "imaginative embellishments (of) the myths of Geoffrey of Monmouth." However his Rous Roll and Warwick Roll are noted for their historically important illustrations, often credited to Rous's hand but not with certainty. (From Wikipedia)

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Rous, John, 1411?-1491: This Rol Was Laburd and Finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk (1845 publication unfinished; this edition London: W. Pickering, ca. 1859), ed. by William Courthope, contrib. by William Pickering and Lambert B. Larking
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

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Rous, John, 1411?-1491: Historia vitæ et regni Ricardi II. Angliæ regis, a monacho quodam de Evesham consignata. Accesserunt, præter alia, Joannis Rossi Historiola de comitibus warwicensibus; Joannis Berebloci Commentarii de rebus gestis Oxoniæ, ibidem commorante Elizabetha regina, et D. Ricardi Wynni, baronetti. Narratio historica de Caroli, Walliæ prinicpis, famulorum in Hispaniam itinere A.D. MDCXXIII (e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1729), also by Thomas Hearne, Richard Wynn, and John Bereblock (page images at HathiTrust)
Rous, John, 1411?-1491: Joannis Rossi antiquarii Warwicensis Historia regum Angliæ (e Theatro Sheldoniano, impensis J. Fletcher & J. Pote, 1745), also by Thomas Hearne and John Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
Rous, John, 1411?-1491: The law of storms: the various phenomena by which their approach can be ascertained with certainty, and practical directions to mariners for the avoidance of their fury. (A. Roman, 1869), also by Anton Roman and Spaulding & Barto (page images at HathiTrust)
Rous, John, 1411?-1491: Pageant of the birth, life and death of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, K. G., 1389-1439 (Longmans, Green, 1914), also by William Henry St. John Hope and Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)

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