Healthes: sicknesse. Or A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and vtterly vnlawfull vnto Christians
Subtitle: by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors, historians, councels; imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce and verdict of prophane and heathen writers: wherein all those ordinary obiections, excuses, or pretences which are made to iustifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or pledging of healthes, are likewise cleared and answered
By: By William Prynne Gent. Hospitii Lincolniensis
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: By Augustine Mathewes
Published: 1628
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Drinking customs; Controversial literature; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Healthes: sicknesse; Compendious and briefe discourse; proving, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians.; Healthes: sicknesse. Or A compendious and briefe discourse; proving, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians.
Notes: Printer's name from STC.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

The preliminaries collate pi² [par.]⁴ ² [par.]² (-[par.]4, [par.]² , + chi² ) etc.; the text of this section is that of STC 20463. Variant: with cancellandum dedication collating pi² [par.]⁴ ² [par.]² etc.; the language is stronger.

STC (2nd ed.) 20462.

Ownership inscription of Nathanael Mighill on last page of "The epistle dedicatorie"; ownership inscription of Barzillai Barker on blank page facing page 1; marginal annotations on a few pages.

Ex-library copy, with bookplate of the Haverill Public Library, Haverill, Massachusetts; paper label on spine with ms. call number.

Manuscript note in later hand laid in: This book was owned by your great, great, great Grandfather Nathl Mighill who married Priscilla Pearson (removed to Inserted material collection, call number MC 782).

No. 1 in a volume containing 4 works.

Imperfect: Title page and all but last 3 pages of "The epistle dedicatorie" wanting; a few of the leaves are too closely trimmed, with some loss of text.

Bound in calf, very worn; on front cover: 1632; boards pierced at outer edges with holes for ties; 3 ties lacking.