An historical and political discourse of the laws & government of England
Subtitle: from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with a vindication of the antient way of parliaments in England
By: collected from some manuscript notes of John Selden, Esq. by Nathaniel Bacon ...
Contributors: Selden, John, 1584-1654.; Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for John Starkey, and are to be sold by J. Robinson ... R. Bentley ... Jacob Tonson ... T. Goodwin ... and T. Fox ...
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Constitutional history -- Great Britain
Other titles: Continuation of the Historical and political discourse of the laws & government of England
Work titles: Historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England
Notes: In 2 pts, each with special t.p. dated 1682.

Pt. 1 first published in 1647 under title: Historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England.

Pt. 2 first published in 1651 under title: The continuation of an historicall discourse on the government of England.

While Wing attributes 1st ed. to Bacon and 1689 ed. to Selden, the text appears to be identical. Probably written by Bacon. Cf. DNB.

Signatures: [a]² b-c⁴ B² C-2D⁴ chi1 2E1 2F-3G⁴.

Includes index.

Wing (2nd ed.) S2428

ESTC R16514

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 2714

LC copy initialed by Thomas Jefferson at signatures I and T.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.'s) The first part. From the first times till the reign of Edward the III; title: [Pt. 2]. Until the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.