Justitia Britannica : per quam liquet perspicue aliquot in eo regno perditos cives, seditionis & armorum civilium authores, regníq[ue] hostium propugnatores acerrimos, ut communi Ecclesiæ reiq[ue] publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulctatos esse: propter religionem vero, aut cæremonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licet ab adversariis secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primo in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam
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Type of record: Book
Title: Justitia Britannica : per quam liquet perspicue aliquot in eo regno perditos cives, seditionis & armorum civilium authores, regníq[ue] hostium propugnatores acerrimos, ut communi Ecclesiæ reiq[ue] publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulctatos esse: propter religionem vero, aut cæremonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licet ab adversariis secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primo in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam
Other titles: Execution of justice in England; De summa eorum clementia; Iustitia Britannica
Classmark: Ripon Cathedral Library XVII.B.5
Creator(s): Burghley, William Cecil Baron (1520-1598)
Additional creator(s): Norton, Thomas (1532-1584) (Other)
Related people: Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581
Publisher: Excudebat Thomas Vautroullerius
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): 1584
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 2 unnumbered pages, 72 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 13 pages, 1 unnumbered page
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/264484
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017152799705181
Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral
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Anonymous. By William Cecil, Baron Burghley.
A defense of the execution of Edmund Campion and other Catholics in 1581.
"De summa eorum clementia, qui habendis quaestionibus præfuerant, contrà proditores quosdam..", a translation of "A declaration of the favourable dealing of her Majesties commissioners appointed for the examination of certain traitours", attributed to Thomas Norton, has separate divisional title and pagination; register is continuous.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 4904.
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