BIB_ID
268260
Accession number
MA 296
Display Date
ca. 1573.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (13 p.) ; 31.3 cm
Notes
Full title reads: "A table gathered owt of a booke named A treatise of treasons against Q: Elizabeth and the croune of England. Latelie compiled by a stranger and sent owt of france, printed in the year of our lorde. 1572."
This text is often attributed to John Leslie, but the epistle dedicatory is signed "Your heighnes dailie Orator GT" (who has not been identified).
This text is often attributed to John Leslie, but the epistle dedicatory is signed "Your heighnes dailie Orator GT" (who has not been identified).
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1906.
Summary
Giving abridged information on the contents of A Treatise of Treasons (attributed to John Leslie). Listing various classes of treasons, including "Treasons in particulare againste the Queenes person, the realme and right succession" (pp.4-6) and "Particulare treasons of the Conspiratores against the Q[ueene]. of Scotl[and]. The realme and the prince" (pp.6-7). Also reproducing "A Copie of a lettre addressed from Antwerp the xxvi of June to Mr. Hatton [this is Christopher Hatton, captain of the yeoman of the guard], and deliuered vnto him at Spaw the 5. of Julie. 1573" (pp.12-13). Also reproducing "Certaine important points added by the abridger of the treatise, after deliuery of the Table to Mr. Hattons handes, implyinge vehement demonstratio[n]s of the p[re]sent perill of your heighnes life and person" (pp.13-17).
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