Anglorum Prælia ab anno Domini. 1327. anno nimirùm primo inclytissimi Principis Eduardi erus nominis tertij, usque ad annu[m] Domini. 1558. Carmine summatim perstricta. ITEM. De pacatissimo Angliæ Statu, imperante Elizabetha, compendiosa Narratio. Authore

The 1580 publication of Ockland's 'Anglorum Prælia,' a Latin historical poem, brought Ockland into public notice, as the book was appointed by Queen Elizabeth and her privy council to be received and taught in every grammar and free school within the kingdom

The work is an hexameter poem, the meter used in classical poetry for heroic subjects

An early hand records on the flyleaf: "containing the highest Panegyric on Queen Elizabeth's character and Government Was enjoined by Authority to be taught as a classic author in Grammar School This was a matchless contrivance to imprint a sense of loyalty on the minds of the people" The DNB adds that the the teaching of Ockland was intended "for the removing of such lascivious poets as are commonly reade and taught in the saide grammer schools"

The second edition of Ockland's work, printed two years after the first, contains Ockland's EIPHNAPXIA, Alexander Neville's Latin poem on Lett's rebellion, and the poem on Elizabeth