An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The First Part. From the first Times till the Reign of Edward the third. [And] The Continuation of an Historicall Discourse, of the Government of England, Until the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Preface, being a Vindication of the ancient way of Parliaments in England. By Nath. Bacon of Grays-Inn-gate..., 1651
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London, Printed for Walbancke at Grays-Inn-Gate, 1647. 2 volumes in 1. Small quarto, 189 x 143 mms., pp. [xii]. 323 [324 blank, 325 - 335 index, 336 blank]; [xxiv], 307 [308 blank, 309 - 316 index], with second title-page at end of first part, recently rebound in attractive blind-panelled calf, red morocco label. A very good copy. "Bacon's greatest service to anti-Stuart causes came in the form of a political tract entitled An Historical Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England, which was probably written using notes collected by John Selden. Published in 1647 to justify the Long Parliament's war against Charles I, with a continuation appearing in 1651, the work has been referred to as 'the English Francogallia' (Burgess, 96). Contemporaries of various political leanings would have agreed. Indeed, according to Bacon's co-religionist and fellow anti-royalist Richard Baxter, An Historical Discourse was one of the four most influential tracts written in support of the parliamentarian cause," (Janelle Greenbery in ODNB).
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- An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The First Part. From the first Times till the Reign of Edward the third. [And] The Continuation of an Historicall Discourse, of the Government of England, Until the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Preface, being a Vindication of the ancient way of Parliaments in England. By Nath. Bacon of Grays-Inn-gate..., 1651
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