[Rarebooks] FS: The apology of James I for imposing a loyalty oath on his subjects. 1609.
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James I, King of England. APOLOGIE POUR LE SERMENT DE FIDELITE QUE LE
SERENISSIME ROY DE LA GRAND’ BRETAGNE REQUIERT DE TOUT SES SUBJECTS, Tant
Ecclesiastiques Que Seculiers, Tel Que Tout Autre Prince Souverain le Peut & Doit
Legitimement Requerir des Siens... Contre Deux Briefs du Pape Paul V, aux Catholiques
Romains Anglois; & une Lettre du Cardinal Bellarmin a Messire George
Blackwell, Archiprestre d’Angleterre, le Tout Cy Contenu... [Traduict de Anglois, par
P. P. Advocat du Parlement de Paris]. A Londres (but printed abroad): Chez
Jean Norton. 1609. First edition in French. Sm. 8vo. 2 parts in 1. 152;132pp.
Cont. vellum, hand lettered spine (a bit darkened). $650.00 (trade discount
allowed)
A defense of James I’s imposition of a loyalty oath on all his subjects in
the wake of the Gunpowder Plot. The first part of this work is a lengthy preface
to the second part, which bears an imprint date of 1608. STC 14408.
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