The opening of the Great Seale of England.. Containing brief historicall and legall observations, touching the originall, antiquity, progresse, use, necessity of the Great Seal of the Kings and Kingdom of England, in respect of charters, patents, writs, commissions, and other processe. Together with the kings, kingdoms, parliaments several interests in, and power over the same, and over the Lord Chancellour, and the Lords and Keepers of it, both in regard to its new-making, custody, administration for the better execution of publick justice, the Republique necessary safety, and utility. Occasioned by the over-rash censures of such who inveigh against the Parliament, for ordering a new Great Seale to be engraven, to supply the wilfull absence, defects, abuses of the old, unduely withdrawne and detained from them. By William Prynne, Utter-Barrester if Lincolns Inne. It is this fifteenth day of September, Anno Dom. 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons, concerning printing, that this treatise, intituled The opening of the Great Seale of England, be forthwith printed by Michael Sparke Senior. John White.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1643
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257131.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],32,[2]p.. 4to. Running number: 1367. Bound with 'A humble remonstrance against the tax of Ship-money' and 'The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments & Kingdomes'. Blickling copy: Title page imprint reads 'Lodon'; signature B mis-signed 'F', p. 27 mis-numbered 19. 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)