Mr. Prinns charge against the King.. Shewing that the Kings design, purpose, and resolution, his endeavours, practice, and conversation, have alwayes been engaged, byassed, and tended to settle, establish, confirm, popery, tyranny, and slavery, in, among, over his dominions subjects, people, and in order to that design, end, and purpose, he writ to the Pope of Rome ... engaging himself to the said Pope, to endeavour to settle the popish religion only in his dominions; and since his coming to the crown, hath extented extraordinary favonrs [sic] upon, and protecti- on [sic] of notorious papists, priests & Jesuits, against all prosecution of lawes enacted against them; notwith- standing all his protestations to the contrary, hath raised up a most horrid, unnatural, and bloudy warre, arming his Roman Catholique subjects to massacre, plunder, torture, imprison, ruine, his loyall, faithfull pious Protestant subjects to burn, sack, and spoile their cities, towns and villages, collected from the bookes written. By William Prinne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire. Being but a very small tast from that main ocean of that which he hath written concerning the King, and his ill beheaviour, since his coming to the crown; as also with references unto clear, satisfactory, convincing answers unto severall objections, concerning resisting, censuring, suspending, depriving kings for their tyranny, yea capitally proceeding against them, by the said author.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1648
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3259292.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1], 5, 3-4 p. ; 4to. Running number: 1362. Bound with other tracts by Prynne. Provenance: Armorial bookplate on upper pastedown of 'Wh: Kennett. D.D. Decan. Petrib.' [i.e. White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough] (Franks 17000). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Binding: Late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century full calf over boards with double blind fillet border and additional blind patterned rule adjacent to spine; gilt roll pattern on board edges; four raised bands, gilt tooled spine with gilt title on goatskin label; endbands (loose); pastedown and endleaves; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669)