Lex, rex = The law and the prince
Subtitle: a dispute for the just prerogative of King and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the Kingdom of Scotland, and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted, and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled, Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings : under the name of J.A. but penned by Jo: Maxwell the excommunicate ... : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisoeus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.
Contributors: Brownlee, John (autograph)
Publisher: Printed for Iohn Field, and are to be sold at his house ...
Published: 1644
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Maxwell, John, -- Abp. of Tuam, -- 1590?-1647; Barclay, William, -- 1570?-1630?; Grotius, Hugo, -- 1583-1645; Divine right of kings
Other titles: Law and the prince
Notes: Anonymous.  By Samuel Rutherford.  Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Errors in paging; no. 281-312 omitted.

Verso of 1st leaf is a dialogue between Seneca and Nero.

Wing R2386.

Fisher Knox copy: Errors in folding of signatures Q (p. 113-120), and Kk--Rr (p. 249-280), resulting in the following sequences of paging: 115-116, 113-114, 119-120, 117-118; and 249-250, 255-256, 253-452 [i.e. 254], 251-252, 257-258, 263-264, 261-262, 259-260, 265-266, 271-272, 269-270. 267-268, 273-274, 279-280, 277-278, 275-276 respectively.  First leaf mutilated and pasted onto support with loss of information from recto side.  With the autograph of John Brownlee.