[Rarebooks] fa: JAMES I - REMONSTRANCE FOR THE RIGHT OF KINGS - 1616

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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James I: A Remonstrance of the most Gratious King Iames I. King of  
Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. For  
the Right of Kings, and the independance of their Crownes. Against an  
Oration of the most Illustrious Card. of Perron, pronounced in the  
Chamber of the third Estate. Ian. 15. 1615. Translated out of his  
Maiesties French Copie. [Cambridge:] Printed by Cantrell Legge,  
Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1616. First Edition in  
English. Small 4to (18.5 x 14.5 cm) in full modern calf; [24] + 281 +  
[1] pp. (pages 208, 209 transposed in the pagination, but register is  
continuous). Bound without the initial blank leaf. ESTC S107609; STC  
14369.

Title-page soiled with loss to the corners, laid down; subsequent 8-9  
leaves with their fore-corners soiled and chipped to a lesser degree  
(not affecting any text); first and last leaf of text somewhat browned  
and soiled with minor edge-wear; the rest of the text-block mildly age- 
toned with occasional small spots and light stains in the margins; one  
page with early/original owner's small, tidy marginal note and  
underlining; otherwise very clean and firmly bound in a handsome  
modern calf binding (small bookbinder's label on the rear paste-down).
James I's spirited defense of monarchs and civil authority from the  
meddling of popes. Along the way, he attacks the French clergy and  
nobles who, having rejected the oath of allegiance proposed by the  
Third Estate in the aftermath of Henri IV's assassination, remained,  
in James's view, "of this pernicious opinion; that Popes may tosse the  
French King his Throne like a tennis ball, and that killing of Kinges  
is an acte meritorious to the purchase of the crowne of Martyrdome." A  
lively and effective counterblast against the doctrine of papal  
authority in temporal affairs, often surprisingly ironic, even  
sarcastic, in tone. Uncommon: ESTC locates copies in only six U.S.  
institutions (Folger, Harvard, Huntington, UKansas, UTexas, UIllinois).