Leycesters common-wealth
Subtitle: conceived, spoken and pvblished with most earnest protestation of all dutifull good will and affection towards this realm : for whose good onely it is made common to many
Contributors: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 259:E.197, no. 2
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1641
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Leicester, Robert Dudley, -- Earl of, -- 1532?-1588
Other titles: Leicesters common-wealth; Leicesters common wealth; The copie of a letter vvryten by a master of arte of Cambridge
Work titles: Leycesters commonwealth
Notes: First published in 1584, with title: The copie of a letter, vvryten by a master of arte at Cambridge, to his friend in London and was populary known as "Father Parson's green-coat."

Does not fully correspond with the first issue described in the Grolier club Catalogue of English writers, or with the two issues described in Burgoyne's edition of 1904 (p. xiv-xv)

"Leicester's commonwealth" was republished in 1641 and was versified as "Leicester's ghost" about the same time

Imperfect: frontispiece lacking in filmed copy

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library

Wing L968

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1967. 1 microfilm reel : 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 259:E. 197, no. 2)

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