Argumentum anti-Normannicum: or An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers. Being an answer to these four questions; viz. I. Whether William the First made an absolute conquest of this nation at his first entrance? II. Whether he cancelled and abolished all the confessor's laws? III. Whether he divided all our estates and fortunes between himself and his nobles? IV. Whether it be not a grand error to affirm, that there were no English-men in the Common Council of the whole Kingdom?.
Edward Cooke of the Middle Temple.
Category
Books
Date
1682
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3143307
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], clxiv p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 8vo. Text marking and repair, p.xlvii. Provenance: Eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate early of Richard Banner, with motto: "Nil sine numine" F1380/81 [i.e. Richard Banner (b. 1696), sold library from Little Aston Hall to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Binding: eighteenth-century sheep; double blind fillet border; blind tooled quarter margin; blind ruled spine. (Upper board loose.)
Makers and roles
Edward Cooke of the Middle Temple. William Atwood (d.1705?) Samuel Johnson (1649-1703) William Petyt (1636-1707)