Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie
Subtitle: eight bookes
By: by Richard Hooker
Contributors: Spenser, John, 1559-1614; Travers, Walter, 1547 or 8-1635.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 2078:10
Publisher: printed by William Stansbye - and are to be sold by George Lathum
Published: 1636
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 583
Subjects: Church of England -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law -- Early works to 1800; Church polity -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Certayne divine tractates, and other Godly sermons; Answere of Mr. Richard Hooker to a supplication, preferred by Mr. Walter Travers, to the honourable lords of the Priuie Councell; Learned discourse of justification, workes, and how the foundation of faith is ouerthrowne; Five learned sermons; Two sermons upon part of S. Iudes epistle
Work titles: Ecclesiastical polity. Book 1-5
Notes: Editor's note "To the reader" signed: I.S., i.e. John Spenser

In fact books 1-5 only, plus the Tractates

The title page is engraved

1-3g/4-5h (Folger Shakespeare Library 13720.0). Other copies (Bodleian Library, Oxford and Union Theological Seminary, New York) have 1-3i instead --STC

Many divisional title pages, register is continuous. Book 5 has separate letterpress title page dated 1632. "Certayne divine tractates, and other Godly sermons" has separate title page dated 1632 on 2V6; it includes a reprint of "A supplication made to the Councell" by Walter Travers.  "The answere of Mr. Richard Hooker to a supplication, preferred by Mr. Walter Travers, to the honourable lords of the Priuie Councell" has a separate title page dated 1635 on 2Y2r. "A learned discourse of justification, workes, and how the foundation of faith is ouerthrowne" has separate title page dated 1636 on 2Z5r. "Five learned sermons" has separate title page dated 1636 on 3C6r. "Two sermons upon part of S. Iudes epistle" has separate title page dated 1636 on 3F2r

Includes indexes

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library

STC (2nd ed.) 13719

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2078:10).