Spelman, Henry, Sir. Tithes too hot to be touched : certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due : by the law of nature, Scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, popish, or incovenient

Folger bibliographic ID: 138319
ESTC number: R19648
Wing number: S4931
Folger call number: S4931 Bd.w. S4921A
Folger holdings ID: 130421
Accession Number: 131033.2

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Signatures: A⁸(A2+'A2') a-d⁴ B-2A⁴ 2B²; ²A-D⁴ ²E² ²a-c⁴ ²d²; ²E2 blank; missignings: d2 as 'A2', B2 as 'A2' ²C3 as 'B3' Dedication signed by the editor, Jeremiah Stephens Date of publication from Wing Dedication leaf: A('A2') "An apology of the treatise De non temerandis ecclesiis. Against a treatise by an unknowne authour, written against it in some particulars. By Sir Henry Spelman, knight. Also his epistle to Richard Carew Esquire, of Anthony in Cornwall concerning tithes. London, Printed by J.L. for Philemon Stephens, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the gilded Lion. 1646" ([36] p.) has special title page and separate signatures "An answer to a question of a gentleman of quality" (27, [1] p.) has caption title and separate signatures and paging; listed in the contents on verso of title leaf as "A resolution of a doubt touching the alienation of tithes." Includes index, with prefatory note (A2v): "That the table may be more readily used, write the the [sic] number of every page of the preface with thy pen, it being omitted by the author: which is likewise to be done in Sr. Henry Spelmans Apology; his epistle to Mr. Carew, Sr. Francis Bigot's epistle to King Henry the Eighth, and the epistle of Mr. Knox." Reissued in 1647 with title "The larger treatise concerning tithes," with cancel title leaf replacing A⁸ (Wing S4928; ESTC R21992) "Errata, & addenda": d4v A catalogue of other printed books of Sr. Henry Spelmans, which are to be sold by Philemon Stephens at the gilded Lion in Pauls Church-yard": A8r

Contents

(from verso of title leaf:) The larger book of tithes -- An apologie of the treatise, De non temerandis ecclesiis -- An epistle to Mr. Richard Carew concerning tithes -- A treatise of impropriations by Sir Francis Bigot knight of Yorkshire -- An epistle to the Church of Scotland, prefixed to the second edition of the first treatise printed at Edenburgh -- A resolution of a doubt touching the alienation of tithes. [Caption title:] An answer to a question of a gentleman of quality ... concerning the settlement or abolition of tithes by the Parliament, which caused him to doubt how to dispose of his sonne, whom he had designed for the ministrey ...

Item information about Folger S4931 Bd.w. S4921A

Bound with "De non temerandis ecclesiis..," 1646

Extended title: Tithes too hot to be touched : certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due : by the law of nature, Scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, popish, or incovenient / written by Sr. Henry Spelman, knight, and others ; with an alphabetical table

Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641. De non temerandis ecclesiis Tithes Church of England Church property

author: Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641
subject: Church of England
editor: Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665
bookseller: Stephens, Philemon, -approximately 1665