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
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3028086
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 80, 93-192, [4], 72, [4], 18, [8] p., [1] folded leaf of plates . ill.., port.. . 4to. Not indigenous. Imperfect: lacks one of the unnumbered leaves following p. 72 (2nd sequence). Upper half only of blank leaf V4 [pp. 163-4}is present; lower half torn away. Repair to title page, apparently cutting out an inscription.. Provenance: Seventeenth-century inscriptions: 1. on added engraved title page: Ben: Taylor [or Tayler]. 2. On flyleaf: A: S:. Seventeenth-century marginal ink note on sig. a2 of prelims.: S.[?] N. B. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: Wentworth Cas. Library. [Wentworth Castle]. Loosely inserted: slip of typed notes by Norris. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards; double blind fillets to form a border and quarter-fillet; blind spine fillets; seventeenth-century ink manuscriptpaper spine labels.
Makers and roles
Michael Sparke (d.1653) G. W