Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The peoples ancient and just liberties asserted, in the tryal of William Penn, and William Mead, at the sessions held at the Old-Baily in London, the first, third, fourth and fifth of Sept. 70. against the most arbitrary procedure of that court.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1967
1443.999 v.5
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8910k4879
Publisher
[London : s.n], printed in the year, 1670.
Language
English
Date Created
1670
Extent
62, [2] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Ex copy: inscribed on title page 'Thomas Whitaker' who, evidently also annotated the errata leaf to read 'Nunc errata non sunt' and 'Ad raptum lectoris sua fata libelli'
Ex copy: in bound volume with contents leaf in mss, signed 'Thomas Hassatt.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R479411
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
In this edition A2r line 6 begins "most Arbitrarily"; line 20 begins "dict) in the end"; F3v line 1 begins "the Recorder".
Signatures: A-H⁴.
"An appendix, by way of defence for the prisoners": p. 24-34.
Errata on final leaf.
Ex copy is no. 5 of a volume of pamphlets.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Modern quarter leather; marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Penn, William 1644-1718—Trials, litigation, etc
Mead, William 1628-1713—Trials, litigation, etc
Freedom of speech—England
Assembly, Right of—England

Physical Characteristics

File Count
74

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7ef49aaa-5139-4380-842c-39ce5d195c04/manifest