Argumentum anti-Normannicum: or An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no a\ute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers. : Being an answer to these four questions; viz. I. Whether William the First made an a\ute conquest of this nation at his first entrance? II. Whether he cancelled and abolished all the confessor's laws? III. Whether he divided all our estates and fortunes between himself and his nobles? IV. Whether it be not a grand error to affirm, that there were no English-men in the Common Council of the whole Kingdom?
Cooke, Edward,of the Middle Temple.
Atwood, William,-1712.
Johnson, Samuel,1649-1703
Coke, Edward,Sir,1552-1634
Petyt, William,1636-1707.
London : Printed by J.D. for Mat. Keinton, Jonath. Robinson, Sam. Sprint,
1682.
"This publication, occasioned by a work of William Pettyt's, entitled Antient rights of the commons of England, 1680, was answered by Brady in his Introduction to old English history. It is by some attributed to Atwood, and by others to Cooke or Johnson." cf. Lowndes. Has also been attributed to Petyt and to Sir Edward Coke.
"The appendix" has caption on page clvii.
Identified as Wing C4907 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700".
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
William, I, King of England, 1027 or 1028-1087
Petyt, William, 1636-1707.
England London.