The narrative history of King James, for the first fourteen years. . In four parts. I. The state of England at His Majesties entrance, and relation it had to other parts: the lascivious courses at court; with the Lord of Northampton's coming to honour: the division betwixt the Hollander and English, betwixt the Scot and English, betwixt the English and Irish: also the rising of Somerset, ... II. The proceedings touching the divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex ... Also, the arraignment of Sir Jer. Elvis lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Thomas Monson Knight, Anne Turner, ... touching the murthering and poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ... III. A declaration of His Majesties revenue with assignations and defalcations upon the same, and of all monies brought into His Majesties coffers from time to time ..., IV. The commissions and warrants for the burning of two hereticks, both holding part of the same our Ranters do, being old heresies, newly revived ...
Michael Sparke (d.1653)
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3028084
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 80, 93-192, [4], 72, [4], 18, [8] p., [1] folded leaf of plates . ill.., port.. . 4to. Imperfect: lacks the blank pp. [163-164] (V4). The 4 pages of 'The stationer to the impartial reader', signed M. Scintilla, are misbound after p. 72 (2nd count). The 8 pages of 'A compleat table' are also bound after p. 72, following 'The stationer to the reader'. The preliminary portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury is torn across.. Provenance: bookplate. Belton 1. Old Belton pm on pd: I/1 [upper-case i]. Binding: Sheep (seventeenth-century), double rules, with vertical off-centre rules. Remains of fore-edge title-slip on end pastedown: the words 'The relation' remain.
Makers and roles
Michael Sparke (d.1653) G. W