The history of the church and state of Scotland, : beginning the year of our Lord 203, and continued to the end of the reign of King James the VI. of ever blessed memory. In seven books. Wherein are described, the progress of Christianity, the persecutions and interruptions of it, the foundation of churches, the erecting of bishopricks, the building and endowing monasteries and other religious places, the succession of bishops in their sees, the reformation of religion, and the frequent disturbances of that nation by wars, conspiracies, tumults, schisms. Together with great variety of other matters, both ecclesiastical and political. / Written by that grave and reverend prelate, and wise counsellor, J. Spotswood, Lord Archbishop of S. Andrews, and Privy Counsellor to King Charles the First, that most religious and blessed prince and martyr.
John Spottiswood (1565-1639) Archbishop of St Andrews
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3179061
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 546, [14]; [8], 47, [1] p. : ports. (metal cut) ; fol. Imperfect: wanting the titlepage to the Appendix and mis-signed A4. Shelved and uniformly bound with Gilbert Burnet’s "The memoires of the lives and actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, ... MDCLXXVII.”. Early 18C annotations on flyleaf, p. [6] and Appendix p. 47. 18C pencil note on p. 485. Provenance: Back flyleaf pasted down over bookplate – probably bookpile bookplate as Burnet’s "The memoires of the lives and actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, ... MDCLXXVII.”: W:H: De Burgo St: Petri, M,D,CCXX, [i.e. White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough]. Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors]. Pasted down flyleaf covers another bookplate. Binding: Seventeenth-century dark brown sprinkled calf over boards (rebacked in tan calf); double blind fillet and spine edge roll on covers; remains of gilt roll on board edges; red and brown sprinkled edges; dark tan and olive-green spine labels. Spine labels: History of Scotland I.
Makers and roles
John Spottiswood (1565-1639) Archbishop of St Andrews , author Brian Duppa (1588-1662) Bishop of Winchester, author William Faithorne the elder (London c.1616 – London 1691), engraver (printmaker) possibly Thomas Middleton (d.1627), author