Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
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 on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...
Call Number
14432.739
1443.739 v.2
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcz029pf88d
Publisher
Printed at London : for Michael Sparke, Senior, 1643.
Language
English
Date Created
1643
Extent
1 v. (various pagings) ; 23 cm.
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free endpaper 'Roger Sherman 1766 / Martha Sherman 1794.'
Princeton copy 2 Ex 1443.739 v. 2 copy: Inscribed on title page 'Stamford 4 March 1716/17'
Princeton copy 2 Ex 1443.739 v. 2 copy: extensive early ms. annotations on p. 6 ff of Third Part.
Princeton copy 2 Ex 1443.739 v. 2 copy: Armorial bookplate: V. H. Wilmot.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R203193
Wing (2nd ed.) P4087A, but second work is first ed. (Wing 4108)
Wing (2nd ed.) P4108
Wing (2nd ed.) P4088
Wing (2nd ed.) P4103
Wing (2nd ed.) P3962
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Includes "The treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, in doctrine and practise ... Januar. 13, 1642 (also issued separately as Wing P4108), "The soveraigne povver of parliaments & kingdomes. Or second part of the Treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes" (also issued separately as Wing P4088), and "The third [-fourth] part of the soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes" (also issued separately as Wing P4103 and P3962). Each part has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
In "The third part" A2r has a headpiece of type ornaments.
The appendix begins new pagination on 2A1r. The "A" of signature-mark "Aa" is under the "c" of "conduce."
With a final errata leaf.
Princeton copy 1 Bound with 'Romes Master-Peece' (1643) (ESTC R212542).
Princeton copy 2 Ex copy: No. 1-4 of a volume of pamphlets.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary calf rebacked, with stamp on front pastedown 'Restored by J. MacDonald Co. / Norwalk, Conn.'

Discovery Information

Subject
England and Wales Parliament—Early works to 1800
Representative government and representation—England—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
659

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1dcf7358-80d0-4204-bb4e-4c983e08a85e/manifest