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Lex Terrae, Or, A Brief Discourse [Bound with Four Titles].

Jenkins, David

Tracts Written by a Prominent Royalist While Imprisoned in the Tower of London Jenkins, David [1582-1663]. Lex Terrae: Or, A Briefe Discourse Collected Out of the Fundamentall Lawes of the Land, Wherein it is Proved that the Supream Power in this Kingdome is in the King Onely, And Not in the Two Houses of Parliament. The Ignorance of Which Hath Been the Visible Cause of the Late Unnaturall Warre, And All the Sad Calamities that Now Lye Heavy upon this Realme. Whereunto are Added Divers Other Small Tracts.... London: Printed for Iohn Gyles, 1647. [ii], 30, 8, [2], 13, [3], 14, 8, 10 pp. Six parts, each with title page or drop-head title. Copperplate portrait of Jenkins affixed to verso of front free endpaper. First edition. [Bound with] Judge Jenkin's Plea, Delivered in to the Earle of Manchester, And the Speaker of the House of Commons Sitting in the Chancery at Westminster. Which was Read by Their Command in Open Court, The 14. of February 1647. And There Avowed (...) Whereunto is Added, His Judgement in the Law, Concerning a Gentleman that was Condemned, For the Late Rising at Canterbury. [London]: Printed in the Yeare, 1648. 8 pp. Second and final edition, enlarged. [And] The Answer of Judge Jenkins, To the Imputation put Upon His Plea in Chancerie; Which was Read in Open Court the 14th of February, 1647.... [London]: Printed in the Yeare, 1648. [ii], 6 pp. Only edition. [And] Iudge Ienkins Remonstrance to the Lords and Commons of the Two Houses of Parliament, At Westminster, The 21. of February, 1647. [London]: Printed in the Yeare, 1647 [i.e. 1648]. 8 pp. First edition. [And] A Short, Sure, And Conscientious Expedient for Agreement & Peace. Tendred to the Two Houses of Parliament: With an Appeale to the Assembly of Divines.... [London]: Printed for I.G., 1648. [ii], 6 pp. Only edition, one of two issues from 1648. Quarto (7-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary limp vellum, some soiling, faint brief annotation to front cover, fragment of early label to spine. Considerable wear to spine and extremities, text block partially detached, final two pamphlets nearly detached, moderate soiling and considerable wear to endleaves, which are partially detached. Moderate toning to contents, somewhat heavier in places, dampspotting in places, shelfmark in small ear.

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