Title: Cottoni posthuma. : Divers choice pieces of that renowned antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, knight and baronet, /
Authors: Cotton, Robert, 1571-1631; Howell, James, 1594?-1666; Mander, Gerald Poynton,; Ess, Henry N. 1921-2000; Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.; Walsingham, Francis, 1530?-1590.
Publisher: Printed by Francis Leach, for Henry Seile, over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetestreet,,
Year: 1651
Subjects: Henry Early works to 1800.; Catholic Church England Early works to 1800.; Ambassadors Early works to 1800.; Prerogative, Royal Great Britain Early works to 1800; Wager of battle Early works to 1800.; Great Britain Politics and government Early works to 1800.
Contents: From title pages: A relation of the proceedings against ambassadors who have miscarried themselves. -- That the kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their peeres in the great councell, and Commons in Parliament, of marriage, peace, and warre. -- That the soveraignes person is required in the great councells, or assemblies of the state, aswell at the consultations as at the conclusions. -- A discourse of the lawfullnes of combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the constable and marshall of England. -- A breife [sic] abstract of the question of precedencie between England and Spaine; occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill ... -- A remonstrance of the treaties of amitie and marriage before time ... of the house of Austria and Spaine, with the kings of England. -- Twenty four arguments, whether it be more expedient to suppress popish practices ... -- The manner and meanes how the kings of England have from time to time supported and repaired their estates. -- An answer to certain arguments raised from supposed antiquities ... to prove that ecclesiasticall lawes ought to be enacted by temporall men. -- The argument made by the command of the House of Commons ... concerning the libertie of the person of every freeman. -- A speech delivered in the lower house of Parliament assembled at Oxford: in the first year of the reign of King Charles. -- A speech ... touching the alteration of coyne. -- The danger wherein this kingdome now standeth, and the remedy. -- Valour anatomized in a fancie. By Sir Philip Sidney. -- Sir Francis Walsingham's Anatomizing of honesty, ambition, and fortitude. -- A briefe discourse concerning the power of the peeres and commons of Parliament, in point of judicature. -- A short view of the long life and reign of Henry the Third ...