Author:Laurence Echard

Laurence Echard
(1670–1730)

Laurence Echard

Works

• An Exact Description of Ireland, &c., (1691)
• A Description of Flanders, or the Spanish Netherlands (1691)
• A Most Compleat Compendium of Geography, General and Special; describing all the Empires, Kingdoms, and Dominions in the whole World,’ &c. (1691)
• The Gazeteer's or Newsman's Interpreter: being a Geographical Index of all the considerable Cities, Patriarcships, Bishopricks, … in Europe,’ &c. (1695)
• The Roman History from the Building of the City to the Perfect Settlement of the Empire by Augustus Cæsar (1699)
• The Roman History from the Settlement of the Empire by Augustus Cæsar to the Removal of the Imperial Seat by Constantine the Great … Vol. II. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Gloucester (1698)
• An Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World in Five Books,’ &c. (1700)
• A General Ecclesiastical History from the Nativity of our blessed Saviour to the First Establishment of Christianity by Humane Laws under Emperour Constantine the Great (1702)
• History of England (1707-1720)
• The Classical Geographical Dictionary, revised, with a recommendatory preface by Laurence Echard (1715)
• Maxims and Discourses, Moral and Divine: taken from the Works of Arch-Bishop Tillotson and Methodiz'd and Connected (1719)
• The History of the Revolution and the Establishment of England in the year 1688. Introduc'd by a necessary Review of the Reign of King Charles and King James the Second. In three books (1725)

Translations

• Plautus's Comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus, and Rudens made English; with Critical Remarks upon each Play (1694)
• Terence's Comedies, made English. With his Life; and some Remarks at the end. By several hands (1694)
• The Works of Lucian, translated from the Greek by several eminent hands (1710?–11)
• The History of the Revolutions in England under the Family of the Stuarts, from the year 1603 to 1690. … By F. J. D'Orleans of the Society of Jesus. Translated from the French original printed at Paris. To which is prefixed an Introduction to this History, by Laurence Echard (1722)

Works about Echard

• "Echard, Laurence," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Echard, Laurence," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)