An hvmble remonstrance against the tax of ship-money lately imposed: laying open the illegality, injustice, abuses, and inconveniences thereof. Written by William Prynne, Esqu. an 1636. during his imprisonment in the Tower of London, to free his countrey from that heavy tax; and then communicated to some speciall friends in writing. Since that printed without his privity, by an imperfect copy, an. 1641. so full of non-sence errors, and mistakes almost in every line, as makes it altogether uselesse, yea ridiculous: but now set out by a true copy, agreeing with the originall; to right the author, and promote the publique good. Together with some briefe observations touching the Great Seale of England. Imprimatur Sept. 1. 1643. John White.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1643
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257131.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 34 p. ;. 4to. Running number: 1367. Bound with 'The opening of the Great Seale of England' and 'The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments & Kingdomes'. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century inscription on title page: "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) Sparke, Michael, -1653, bookseller