Cottoni posthuma
Subtitle: divers choice pieces of that renowned antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, knight and baronet, preserved from the injury of time, and exposed to publick light, for the benefit of posterity
By: By J. H., esq
Contributors: Howell, James, 1594?-1666
Publisher: Printed for R. Lowndes and M. Gilliflower
Published: 1672
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Catholic Church -- England; Ambassadors -- Great Britain; Prerogative, Royal -- Great Britain; Wager of battle; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: Dedication signed: James Howell

Signatures: A in fours; B-Z in eights

Consists of 16 pieces, each (except the first) having special t.-p

(contents con't) Twenty four arguments, whether it be more expedient to suppress popish practises against the due allegeance of his majesty. By the strict executions touching Jesuits and seminary priests? or to restrain them to close prisons, during life, if no reformation follow? -- The manner and meanes how the kings of England have from time to time supported and repaired their estates -- An answer to certain arguments ..., to prove that ecclesiastical lawes, ought to be enacted by temporal men -- The argument made by the command of the House of Commons ... concerning the libertie 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 I --A speech made by Sir Rob. Cotton ... touching the alteration of coyne -- The danger wherein this kingdome now standeth, and the remedy

Wing (2nd ed.) C6486
Table of contents: title: A relation of proceedings against ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, and exceeded their commission; title: That the kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their peers in the great council, and commons in Parliament, of marriage, peace, and war; title: That the soveraigns person is required in the great councells, or assemblies of the state, as well at the consultations as at the couclusions [sic]; title: A discourse of the lawfullnes of combats to be performed in the presence of the king, or the constable and marshall of England; title: A breif [sic] abstract of the question of precedencie between England and Spaine; title: A remonstrance of the treaties of amity and marriage ... of the house of Austria and Spain, with the Kings of England, to advance themselves to the monarchy of Europe