BIB_ID
116254
Accession number
MA 276
Creator
Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601.
Display Date
1587 or later.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
3 items (51 p.) ; 21 cm.
Notes
Speeches delivered in Parliament November 1586 to February 1587.
Speeches mention King Henry VIII (p.17), King Edward [VI] (p.19); Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II and Queen of Spain (p.28); Charles IX, King of France (p.28); Catherine de Medici (mentioned as "queen mother" p.28).
Written in secretary hand with occasional italic phrases. With page catchwords throughout, occasional marginal notes, and ruling visible on several pages.
Speeches mention King Henry VIII (p.17), King Edward [VI] (p.19); Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II and Queen of Spain (p.28); Charles IX, King of France (p.28); Catherine de Medici (mentioned as "queen mother" p.28).
Written in secretary hand with occasional italic phrases. With page catchwords throughout, occasional marginal notes, and ruling visible on several pages.
Provenance
Formerly in the collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 13891) and John Scott; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1906.
Summary
1) "Againste the sscottishe Queene...:" A speech (given 4 November 1586) discussing Mary, Queen of Scots, whom he calls "the daughter of sedition, the mother of rebellion, the nurce of Impietie" (p.5). 2) "The cause being so waighty as yt is...:" A speech (given 27 February 1587) against "o[u]r dombe, Ignorante, and vnlearned ministerye", which Throckmorton considers "the bane of the church [and] commen wealth" (p.20), and also discussing puritanism. 3) "About some .20. yeares agoo [and] vpwarde...:" A speech (given 23 February 1587) concerning the 1565 "greate meetinge [and] conference at Bayvn [Bayonne]," church reform and the need to counter Catholicism's "pestilent conspiracy against the Church of God and the professors of holy religion," and the fraught state of England's relations with its neighbors -- "no hope of Spayne, no trust in Frau[n]ce, colde comforte in Scotlande" (p.44).
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