Leycesters common-wealth
Subtitle: conceived, spoken and pvblished with most earnest protestation of all dutifull good will and affection towards this realm : for whose good onely it is made common to many
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 259:E.197, no. 2
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1641
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Other titles: Leicesters common-wealth.; Leicesters common wealth.; Copie of a letter vvryten by a master of arte of Cambridge.
Work titles: Leycesters commonwealth
Notes: First published in 1584, with title: The copie of a letter, vvryten by a master of arte at Cambridge, to his friend in London and was populary known as "Father Parson's green-coat."

Does not fully correspond with the first issue described in the Grolier club Catalogue of English writers, or with the two issues described in Burgoyne's edition of 1904 (p. xiv-xv)

"Leicester's commonwealth" was republished in 1641 and was versified as "Leicester's ghost" about the same time.

Imperfect: frontispiece lacking in filmed copy.

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