Aurum reginæ; . or A compendious tractate, and chronological collection of records in the Tower, and Court of Exchequer concerning queen-gold: evidencing the quiddity, quantity, quality, antiquity, legality of this golden prerogative, duty and revenue of the queen-consorts of England. The several oblations, fines out of which it springs both in England and Ireland; the Queens officers in the Exchequer to receive, collect, account to her for it, with their patents; [...] With an addition of some records concerning our royal mines of gold and silver, and four patents of K. Henry the 6. by authority of Parliament, for finding the philosophers stone, [...] By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne, keeper of his Majesties records in the Tower of London.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1668
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3049665
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],138,[2]p. . 4to.. Indentified in 1768 catalogue: B.7 [crossed through] in the closet [entered with Prynne's other works as 'Prynne's Histrio-Mastix, Registrum Brevium, & tracts. 14 vol.']. Bound with 'An additional appendix to Aurum reginæ' (London: 1668). Old manuscript shelfmark on front flyleaf: 76. manuscript title on recto of imprimatur leaf: Aurum Reginæ.. Provenance: Unidentified armorial stamp on upper corner of verso of front board; bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819); bookplate on verso of title page: Armorial, three boars' heads, differenced with a mullet; The Honble. Henry Booth. [i.e.: Henry Booth (1687-1727)].. Binding: Sprinkled, panelled calf; blind ruled, rolled and tooled; spine blind ruled; red spine label: 'Prynn tract'.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669)