Balcanquhall, Walter. A large declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland, from their first originalls : together with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the prime leaders of the Covenanters: collected out of their owne foule acts and writings: by which it doth plainly appeare, that religion was onely pretended by those leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them. By the King

Folger bibliographic ID: 166662
STC number: 21906
ESTC number: S116832
Folger call number: STC 21906.2
Folger holdings ID: 161084

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Written by Walter Balcanquhall for Charles I With a final colophon leaf With a marginal note on p. 41. Variant 1: lacking this note. Variant 2: lacking the comma after "Scotland" in title Signatures: [A]² B-2D⁴ 2E⁶ 2F-3G⁴ 3H⁶ Identified as STC 21906a on UMI microfilm reel 1431 (Cambridge University Library copy)

Item information about Folger STC 21906.2

HH52/11. With gathering Y in a different setting. Manuscript motto (from old endpapers?) affixed to front paste-down, minus interspersed letters decodes as: "No life to lechery: No death to beggary:". Re-bound at Folger (from old calf) in December 1960, in half goatskin over cloth; note on the conservation bound in at back. Provenance: Hume family library (fragment of old calf binding affixed to back paste-down with initials: SPH [Sir Patrick Hume]); inscribed on t.p.: "Hume of Polwart / Omne tulit punctumQui Meruit utile dulci"; armorial bookplate of Alexander Hume, Lord Polwarth, dated 1721 (mottoes: Fides probata coronat; True to the end); bookplate of Wm. [William] Hardcastle; Harmsworth copy

Extended title: A large declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland, from their first originalls : together with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the prime leaders of the Covenanters: collected out of their owne foule acts and writings: by which it doth plainly appeare, that religion was onely pretended by those leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them. By the King

Covenanters Scotland

author: Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937
associated with: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649