The Third Part Of A Treatise, Intituled: Of Three Conuersions Of England: Conteyninge..
Bound in early calf, boards decorated with blind stamping and gilt borders; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon morocco title label, gilt. Front board detached and extremities worn. Small ink stains on title page but otherwise a clean crisp copy. Armourial bookplate of Charles Walmesley, Westwood with his signature of 1802 on first free endpaper, and on title.
£200.00
Publisher
Imprinted vvith licence.,
Place
[Antwerp?]
Date
1604
Synopsis
An examen of the calendar or catalogue of protestant saints, martyrs and confessors, diuised by john fox, and prefixed before his volume of acts and monuments, vvith a parallel or comparison therof to the catholike roman calendar, and saints therin conteyned. the first six monthes.
wherevnto in the end is annexed a defence of a certaine triall, made before the king of france vpon the yeare 1600. betweene monsieur plessis mornay gouernour of saumur, about sundry points of religion. [n.b. section not included in this volume]. [vol. 2 of 3]. by n. d.
Item Description
8vo. 4 x 6 inches. [144] + 530 + [14] pp. index. Separate pagination and register for the analysis of the Calendar, A Direction or Instruction...but no additional title page. Rubrics to Calendar in red, which has the text within borders.
Illustrations
Decorated by title page and endpiece vignettes and by initials.
Notes
Published under the pseudonym, N. D., but known to be the work of Robert Parsons (1546-1610), a former Balliol scholar who converted to Roman Catholicism, travelled abroad, became a Jesuit and was a leading scholar of the Catholic mission to England. The second part of a polemical reply to John Foxe,' published in three volumes in 1603–4 as A Treatise of Three Conversions of England from Paganisme to Christian Religion. Here Persons attempted to demonstrate the English church's debt to Rome, and the compatibility of the doctrine and practice of the modern Roman church with that of the Christian religion in England from the earliest days. He dismissed the so-called calendar of Foxe's martyrs (a non-authorial embellishment of the Actes and Monuments) satirically month by month' (DNB). This copy was owned by Charles Walmesley (1781-1833) of Westwood House, Ince, Wigan, a relative of Charles Walmesley, titular Roman Catholic bishop and Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England.
[Stock No. 24053]
Subjects
17th Century • History • Religion • Theology • Theology/History