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130 0 $aLeycesters commonwealth.
245 10 $aLeycesters common-wealth /$cconceived, spoken and pvblished with most earnest protestation of all dutifull good will and affection towards this realm, for whose good onely, it is made common to many.
246 3 $aLeicesters common-wealth
246 3 $aLeicesters commonwealth
260 $a[Place of publication not identified] :$b[publisher not identified],$c1641.
300 $a[6] pages, 178 pages ;$c19 cm (4to)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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500 $a"Leycesters common-wealth" is a Catholic recusant political tract against Elizabeth I's government, in particular the pro-Puritan policies of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who is portrayed as an amoral opportunist. It went through many stages and forms, both in manuscript and in print, and is most well known by the title "Leicester's commonwealth". It was first printed on the continent in 1584 with title "The copie of a leter, wryten by a master of arte of Cambridge, to his friend in London" (STC 5742.9). Formerly attributed to Robert Parsons (who denied authorship), it is also sometimes ascribed to Thomas Morgan; cf. ESTC. D.C. Peck's edition, 1985, attributes it to Sir Charles Arundell, assisted by a group of Roman Catholic laymen.
500 $aIn this variant of the quarto edition, pages [179]-[180], "Pia et vtilis meditatio," and "A godly and profitable meditation taken out of the 20. chapter of the booke of Job," pages 181-182, plus the 35, [1] pages of "Leycesters ghost" - a poetical paraphrase of "Leicester's commonwealth" by Thomas Rogers - are absent.
500 $aErrors in paging: numbers 60, 102, 103, 118, 119, 120 misprinted as 09, 103, 102, 119, 118, 110, respectively.
510 4 $aWing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994),$cL968 (Variant)
561 $aBurns Library copy: Boston College ink stamp on title page.
590 $aBurns Library copy: bound in sun-stained light tan cloth over boards; manuscript title and date on spine.
600 10 $aLeicester, Robert Dudley,$cEarl of,$d1532?-1588.
600 17 $aLeicester, Robert Dudley,$cEarl of,$d1532?-1588$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00016504
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1558-1603.
650 0 $aProtestant churches$y16th century$vControversial literature.
610 20 $aCatholic Church$y16th century$vpologetic works.
650 7 $aPolitics and government$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919741
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
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655 7 $aInk stamps (Provenance)$2rbprov$5MChB-B
700 1 $aParsons, Robert,$d1546-1610,$eattributed name.
700 1 $aMorgan, Thomas,$d1543-1606,$eattributed name.
700 1 $aArundell, Charles,$d1540-1587,$eattributed name.
901 $aDigitized$cBCL$pEntire work
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