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The life off the 70. archbishopp off Canterbury presentlye sittinge / Englished, and to be added to the 69. lately sett forth in Latin. This numbre off seuenty is so compleat a number as it is great pitie ther shold be one more: but that as Augustin was the first, so Mathew might be the last.

Accession number
PML 1023
Creator
Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.
Published
[Zürich] : Imprinted [by Christoph Froschauer?], M.D.LXXIIII [1574].
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A-F[superscript]3 in 8s, folding-table.
An eulogistic memoir of Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, probably translated from the original Latin "Matthaeus" ascribed to John Josselyn or Joscelyn, secretary to Parker (Strype, p. 416). Compare the text with "The Life of Archbishop Parker" found in some few copies of the book "De Antiquitate Britannica; intitled Matthaeus" in Strype, Appendix, p. 147-166. The caustic remarks in the margin are by the same person (Strype, p. 488-9 suggests the Puritan zealot, John Stubbs) who composed the second tract (on C4[superscript]a-F3[superscript]a, see F6[superscript]b, line 24): To the Christian reader peace in Christe and warre with Antechriste which is an invective against Parker's "De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae & Privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis; cum Archiepiscopis eiusdem LXX. Historia", printed by John Day, 1572.
Page [86] blank.
Description
[86] pages, [1] folded leaf ; 13 cm (8vo)
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Brown morocco, gilt, all edges gilt.
Classification
Department