The true portraiture of the kings of England; drawn from their titles, successions, raigns and ends. Or, A short and exact historical description of every king with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it especially from William the Conquerer. : Wherein is demonstrated, that there hath been no direct succession in the line to create an hereditary right, for six or seven hundred years; faithfully collected out of our best histories, and humbly presented to the Parliament of England. To which is added the political catechism.
Parker, Henry,1604-1652.
London : [s.n],
printed in the year 1688.
"To the reader" signed: H.P., i.e. Henry Parker.
First printed in 1650. This edition includes "the Political Catechism sometimes erroneously ascribed to Parker; a few internal changes (e.g., pp. 28, 39) and a new ending (pp. 40-8) accomodated the Restoration and late Revolution."--Mendle, Michael. Henry Parker and the English Civil War (Cambridge, 1995).
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Kings and rulers
Divine right of kings