Bound volume of 3 tracts by William Prynne, dated 1643.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1643
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257131
Summary
Bound volume of 3 tracts by William Prynne, dated 1643.
Bibliographic description
4to. Running number: 1367. Bound volume containing 'A humble remonstrance against the tax of Ship-money', 'The opening of the Great Seale of England 1643', and 'The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments & Kingdomes'. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Each tract signed "Ch. Elstob" [i.e. Charles Elstob (d.1721) Preb. of Canterbury, 1686-1721. R. of Tillington, Sussex, 1697-1721 - Alumni Cantabrigienses]. Manuscript note on front endleaf: "M. all" [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Pencil notes on front endleaf: [1] price: "1-0-"; [2] "B4". Binding: seventeenth-century(?) vellum over boards; initials in black ink at centre of both covers: "C.E" [i.e. Charles Elstob]. Four raised bands; rebacked, spine untooled. No endbands. Four supports laced in; pastedown and endleaf at both ends. Repaired at Cambridge 1955.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669), author