N.D., William Prynne,
The Popish Royall Favourite. with; Vindiciæ Caroli Regis: or, A Loyall Vindication of the King. In answer to The Popish Royall Favourite.
Printed at London: for Michael Spark Senior. 1643 & London: Imprinted, MDCXLV. [1645]
Prynne goes after the King with accusations of ‘favours and protections’ for Papists, Priests and Jesuits. Answered by N.D. in his ‘Loyall Vindication of the King’. A matched pair in fine binding. Both scarce.
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Prynne goes after the King with accusations of ‘favours and protections’ for Papists, Priests and Jesuits. Answered by N.D. in his ‘Loyall Vindication of the King’. A matched pair in fine binding. Both scarce.
Prynne goes after the King with accusations of ‘favours and protections’ for Papists, Priests and Jesuits. Answered by N.D. in his ‘Loyall Vindication of the King’. A matched pair in fine binding. Both scarce.
The volume(s) measure about 22.7 cm. by 17.5 cm. by 1.2 cm.
Each leaf measures about 220 mm. by 170 mm.
- Main description
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- Biography / Bibliography
Main description
The full titles read:
The Popish Royall Favourite: or, A Full Discovery of His Majesties extraordinary favours to, and protections of notorious Papists, Priests, Jesuits, against all prosecutions and penalties of the laws enacted against them; notwithstanding his many Royall Proclamations, Declarations, and Protestations to the contrary. As likewise of a most desperate long prosecuted designe to set up Popery, and extirpate the Protestant religion by degrees, in this our Realme of England, and all His Majesties Dominions. Manifested by sundry letters of grace, warrants, and other writings under the Kings owne signe-manuall, privy-signet, his privy-councels, and Secretary Windebanks hands and seals, by divers orders and proceedings in open sessions at Newgate, in the Kings Bench, and elsewhere … Collected and published by authority of Parliament: by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire. Printed at London: for Michael Spark Senior, and are to be sold at the Blue-Bible in Green-Arbour, 1643.
Physical descr. [8], 76 p. ; 4⁰.
There are at least three different settings of the title page and preliminaries of the 1643 edition and two settings of the text in various combinations.
In this edition title page l. 12 ends “England, and”, and Prynne’s name in authorship statement is printed in italics; the “[par.]” of signature-mark [par.]2 is under the “P” of “Parliament”; and the “A” of signature-mark A1 is under the “j” of “subject”.
Annotation on Thomason copy: “The Guift of of [sic] ye author”; “Decemb: 11th”.
The volume measures 22.7 x 17.5 x 1.2 cm. Each leaf measures 220 x 170 mm.
ESTC: R212501 Wing P4039 Thomason, E.251[9]
WITH
N. D.
Vindiciæ Caroli Regis: or, A Loyall Vindication of the King. In answer to The Popish Royall Favourite. VVherein (as in a christall glasse) is presented the reflection of His Majesties actions, since the beginning of his raigne. [London :], Imprinted, MDCXLV. [1645]
The volume is paginated as follows: [10], 54 [i.e. 64] p.
The volume collates as follows: (pi2) A-I4.
Lacking the blank first leaf. Leaf A1 mis-signed ’A3’; page 64 misnumbered ’54’. Lacking the portrait mentioned in ESTC.
A reply to: Prynne, William. The Popish Royall Favourite (Wing P4039).
The volume measures 22 x 16.8 x 1.2 cm. Each leaf measures 214 x 160 mm.
ESTC: R210042 Wing D71 Thomason, E.257[4]
Condition
Both volumes bound in Half Green Moroccan over matching marbled boards. With two raised bands top and bottoms of the new spines framing a red leather strip with hand-stamped letters. Both volumes in Near Fine almost new condition.
Internally the leaves are generally clean and well margined, with some light staining on the odd page and some light toning, with some scattered fox marks.
Biography / Bibliography
When the civil war broke out, Prynne became one of the leading defenders of the parliamentary cause in the press. At first he had used his freedom to prosecute his attack on episcopacy (The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy both to Regal Monarchy and Civil Unity; A New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny, 1641). He now showed that the bishops and the king’s ministers had been fellow-workers in the design of introducing popery (The Popish Royal Favourite; and Rome’s Masterpiece, 1643). In his ‘Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kindomes’, he defends Parliaments power against disloyal ‘Papists’. He proved by historical precedents that the parliament’s cause was legal, that the parliament had the supreme control of the armed forces and of the great seal of the realm, and that the text ‘Touch not Mine anointed’ did not prohibit Christian subjects from defending themselves against their kings, but kings from oppressing their Christian subjects (A Sovereign Antidote ; Vindication of Psalm 105, ver. 15, 1642; The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms; The Opening of the Great Seal of England, 1643).
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