A Manuell or, Briefe Treatise of Some Particular Rights and...
Who Should Control the Militia? Derham, Robert. A Manuell or, Briefe Treatise of Some Particular Rights and Priviledges Belonging to the High Court of Parliament: Wherein is Shewed How of Late Times They have been Violated. The True Condition of the Militia of this Kingdome, So Much Now Controverted Both by King and Parliament, By the Positive Lawes Discussed and Debated, With a Briefe Touch of the Royall Prerogative. London: Printed for Mathew Walbancke, 1647. [xiii], 128, 8 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/4"). Later (nineteenth-century) calf, gilt rules to boards, gilt title to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, edges rouged, marbled (renewed) endpapers. Light rubbing and fading to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners just bumped, front hinge just starting at head, later armorial bookplate (possibly of John Wodehouse, signed in ink and dated 1838) recent notes in pencil to later front endleaves, early note to contemporary front endleaf. Light toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, occasional later brief notes and marginal marks in pencil. $850. * Only edition. A discussion of the respective privileges of Parliament and the Crown, published between the First and Second English Civil Wars, in light of the heated debate over control of the militia instigated by the Militia Ordinance of 1642. Passed by the Long Parliament in March, the ordinance gave Parliament the right to appoint military commanders without the king's approval and was enforced by Parliament despite Charles's refusal to grant it royal assent. This caused the already-tenuous relationship between Charles I and Parliament to degrade further and was one of the primary causes of the outbreak of war in August of that year. OCLC locates 7 copies of this title in North American law libraries (Harvard, University of Minnesota, Columbia, University of Michigan, Ohio Northern University, Library of Congress, LA County). English Short-Title Catalogue R16744.
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