A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande; wherin by moste pitthy reasons [and] euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the .ii. gouernements of kingdomes
Subtitle: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned
By: Written in Latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight, lorde chauncellour of Engla[n]d in y[e] time of Kinge Henrye the .vi. And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: By Rychard Tottill
Published: 1567
Place of publication: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Politics and government; Early works to 1800; Constitutional law
Other titles: Fortescue, in commendacion of the lawes of Englande; In commendacion of the lawes of Englande
Work titles: De laudibus legum Angliae
Notes: Dedicated by Mulcaster to John Walsh (d. 1572), a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

Imprint from colophon.

Collation: A-R⁸ [$4 (-N3, -DF4) signed]

Errors in foliation: leaves 54, 99 and 103 printed 45, 96 and 102.

Text in black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials.

A translation of: De laudibus legum Angliae, written by Fortescue between 1468-1471, supposedly as instruction for Edward, Prince of Wales.

STC (2nd ed.) 11194

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T357

Text in English and Latin in parallel columns.

Ex libris Thomas Jolley -- Sir William Stirling Maxwell -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 69)

Half bound in 19th century calf and publisher's book cloth, embossed with the armorial of Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Gilt spine title: Fortescue. Of the lawes of Englande. On front inside pastedown, armorial bookplate of 'William Stirling'. Signature 'Thos. Jolley', dated 1808 on front flyleaf (with price?) Jolley's armorial bookplate on back pastedown.

Bound in contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets and center filagree stamp. Vellum guards of manuscript waste. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in January 1898.