A Treatise of the Rights of the Crown; Declaring, How the King...
Rights of the Crown Noy, William [1577-1634]. A Treatise of the Rights of the Crown. Declaring, How the King of England May Support and Increase His Annual Revenues. Collected Out of the Records in the Tower, The Parliament Rolls, And Close Petitions, Anno X Car. Regis. 1634. By William Noy Esq; Then Attorney General. Now First Publish'd From the Original MS. With Some Account of the Author. London: Printed for B. Lintott and E. Curll, 1715. xii, 113, [5] pp. Includes 4 pp. publisher advertisement. Lacking final leaf, a blank. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets to joints, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, chip to head of spine, corners bumped and somewhat worn, hinges starting. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to title page and a few other leaves. $500. * First edition. Possibly intended to challenge Parliament during its rise to preeminence during the early years of King George I's reign, Noy's book reviews royal prerogative and forms of taxation reserved by the crown. As attorney general, Noy advised King Charles I to impose the ship money tax, a move that helped trigger the English Civil War. A second edition was published in 1751. Both editions are scarce. English Short-Title Catalogue T51634.
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