Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The character of a trimmer : His opinion of I. The laws of government. II. Protestant religion. III. The papists. IV. Foreign affairs / By the Honourable Sir W.C.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1582
1445.426.3
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6t053s188
Publisher
London :, s.n., Printed in the year, 1688.
Language
English
Date Created
1688
Extent
[4], 43, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (4to).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Bookplate and inscription of Francis Caldwell Holland (London, April 1893).
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R38783
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title within double line border.
Although the work was published under William Coventry's name, its authorship was acknowledged by Halifax, to whom it is generally ascribed. In 1699 the work itself was issued as by 'the late noble marquis of Halifax.' cf. Dictionary of national biography.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary mottled calf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Great Britain—Politics and government—1660-1688
Church and state—Great Britain
Church of England—Sermons
Sermons, English
Sermons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
57

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1940767e-c171-46f7-b1d6-b5a4042321d1/manifest