" FRAGMENTA REGALIA, or observacions on Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favourites," by Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State. First printed in 1641. Paper; ff. 69. xviith cent. Small folio. Political Tracts: "Fragmenta Regalia," by Sir R. Naunton: 17th cent. Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of ...
1. " MAXIMS, religious and political, of King James 1. f. 2. Printed, but with variations, in The Prince's Cabala, etc., 1715, under the title of " The Table-Talk of King James I., etc. Collected by Sir Thomas Overbury." 2. " Obseruations upon the state of the 17 Prouinces, as they stood ao 1619...
1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
"VOX POPULI, or News frome Spayne, translated according to the [imaginary] Spanishe coppie": a pamphlet by Thomas Scott against the Spanish Match. Priinted in 1620, and suppressed; included in the Somers Tracts, 1809, vol. ii., p. 508. Paper; ff. 14. xviith cent. Small quarto. Thomas Scott: Vox...
" DE LIBERA ELECTIONE Regni Bohæmici et de Jure Imperatoris Ferdinandi ad idem Regnum, 1619 ": a Latin treatise in answer to a discourse asserting the right of the Elector Palatine to the crown of Bohemia, the writer declaring the crown not to be elective, and defending the claim of Ferdinand. T...
" THE PASSAGES and occurrences which happened from the first acceptation of the Crowne of Bohemia by the Palsgrave [Frederic] untill the looseinge of the Palatinate," in 1623, with especial reference to the part taken with regard to the affairs of the Palatinate by James I. In a contemporary han...
A DISCOURSE of Foreign War, with an account of all the Taxations upon this Kingdom, etc., by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in 1690. Paper; ff. 47. Early xviith cent. Belonged, in 1774, to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. Political Tracts: "Discourse of Foreign War," by Sir R. Cotton: early 17th c...
1. A DISCOURSE of Court and Courtiers. f. 2. The author's name is not given; but in a copy in Harley MS. 3364 the preface, which is addressed to the Duke of Lenox, is signed by " Edw. Payton " [Sir Edward Peyton, Bart.] and dated " from Isleham, vlt. Martii, 1633." 2. " A discoverye of the Holla...
" THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...
" DOMINIUM maris Britannici. . . . per D. Ioannem de Burgo," etc.: a Latin version of the treatise as above, No. 286, with copious marginal references, and a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 24. xviith cent. Small Folio. Political Tracts: "The Soveraignty of the Seas of England ": 17th cent....