Leycesters Common Wealth.

Other author Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.
Other author Morgan, Thomas, 1543-1606, attributed name.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[London?] : [publisher not identified], 1641.
Description8 unnumbered pages, 182 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 4°.
Supplemental ContentGale, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
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Uniform titleLeycesters commonwealth.
SeriesSeventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteImages from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Local noteImages from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
General noteReproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
General note"Leicester's commonwealth" is a political tract against Elizabeth I's government. 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". It was formerly attributed to Robert Parsons and is sometimes attributed to Thomas Morgan. Cf. DNB s.v. Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester. 1532?-1588.
General notePlace of publication from Wing.
General note"Leicester's commonwealth" was republished in 1641 and was versified by Thomas Rogers as "Leicester's ghost" about the same time.
General noteCaption title on p. 1: Entrance to the matter
General noteLast leaf is blank.
References Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L968
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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