An institution of general history [electronic resource] : being a compleat body thereof from the beginning of the world till the monarchy of Constantine the Great : wherein are described the several empires and the contemporaries with them ... as also the forms and models of governments ... their respective magistrates, customs, laws and antiquities, all in such unbroken order and method as yet never was extant : with a table now added to the whole work / by William Howel of Cambridge.