The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes

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William Prynne,

The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes

Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior. 1643.

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Prynne supports the parliamentary cause against Treachery and Disloyalty. A pleasing complete copy in wonderful condition.

The volume(s) measure about 23.2 cm. by 17.8 cm. by 4 cm.

Each leaf measures about 228 mm. by 170 mm.

The Soveraigne Povver of Parliaments and Kingdomes: divided into Foure Parts· Together with an Appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his Counsell, Royallists, Malignants, Delinquents, Papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) Satisfactorily Answered, refuted dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is this second day of August, 1643. Ordered by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing, that this booke Intitled, The Soveraigne power of Parliaments and Kingdoms; &c, be Printed by Michael Sparke senior. John White. Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior. 1643.

The volume is paginated as follows:  [8]; [4], 56, [1], 78-112; [2], 38 p., 39-40 leaves, 41-87, [1]; [8], 150; [4], 36, 112, 121-218, [2] p.

With a final errata leaf. In “The treachery” the page after 56 is numbered 75.

The volume collates as follows: A4, A2, A-L4, M2, A2, A-E4, *, F-L4, A4, A-T4, A-E4, 2A-3D, 3E2

Includes the four separate parts, issued separately and now bound together with an additional title page and ‘Epistle Dedicatory’.  Each part has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. They Include:

The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes, in Doctrine and Practise. .. The Second Edition enlarged, Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior. 1643.

The Soveraigne Povver of Parliaments & Kingdomes. Or Second Part of the Treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes,… Printed at London by J.D. for Michael Sparke Senior. 1643.

The Third Part of the Soveraigne Povver of Parliaments and Kingdomes,… , Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior. 1643.

The Fourth Part of the Soveraigne Povver of Parliaments and Kingdomes,… , Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior. 1643.

The appendix begins new pagination on 2A1r. Quire 2A is in two settings: the “A” of signature-mark “Aa” is under (Setting 1) the “c” of “conduce” or (Setting 2) the “v” of “very”.   Our copy is setting 1.

ESTC: R203193  Wing P4087A

Complete in all respects including period endpapers and two period blanks in the front and two in the rear. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, re-backed 20th C.  in matching calf with hand-stamped letters and double gilt bands top and bottom applied horizontally to the new spine. The contemporary boards with some scuffing and wear, but with the corners strengthened. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, with some light staining in the margins and some light toning, with some scattered fox marks and occasional contemporary notes mostly drawn hands pointing at passages..

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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; 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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