The case of impotency
Subtitle: as debated in England in that remarkable tryal, 1613, between Robert, Earl of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard, who, after eight years marriage, commenc'd a suit against him for impotency : containing I. The whole proceedings and debates on both sides, II. The report of the seven matrons appointed to search the countess, III. The intrigue between her and the Earl of Somerset, who after the divorce married her, IV. A detection of some politicks in the court of King James the First
By: written by George Abbot ... ; in two volumes.
Contributors: Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, Countess of, 1593-1632.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed for E. Curll ...
Published: 1719
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, Countess of, 1593-1632 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Norfolk, Henry Howard, Duke of, 1655-1701 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Trials (Divorce) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Tryal of Mervin Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for a rape and sodomy.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of Lt. Col. F. Grant.
RLIN ILCGH3372053-B
Vol. 2 has special t.p., which reads: The tryal of Mervin Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for a rape and sodomy : also the proceedings between the Duke of Norfolk and his duchess.
Vol. 1: [8], 192 p., [1] leaf of plates.
LC copy imperfect: v. 2 wanting; t.p. information from RLIN.