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The Life and Death of the Illustrious Robert Earle of Essex, &c. Containing at large the wars he managed, and the commands he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England. Together with some wonderfull observations both of himselfe, and his predecessors, and many most remarkable passages from his infancie, unto the day of his death

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Life and Death of the Illustrious Robert Earle of Essex, &c. Containing at large the wars he managed, and the commands he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England. Together with some wonderfull observations both of himselfe, and his predecessors, and many most remarkable passages from his infancie, unto the day of his death

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC CW 1646/3

Creator(s): Codrington, Robert (1601-1665)

Related people: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646

Publisher: printed by F. Leach, for L. Chapman

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1646

Language: English

Size and medium: [4],50 p; 1 plate

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285507

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002139689705181

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With an additional title-page, engraved, and title: "A mournefull cloud ouer vaylinge the face of England for the sorrowfull death of his Exelence Robert Deuourux... 1646". It contains a map of England, with the recumbent effigy of the Earl of Essex below.


Dedication to Walter Devereux, viscount of Hereford.


Indexed in: Wing C4877.

Additional description

Bound with 3 other publications in a volume lettered: Life & death of E. of Essex. 1646. Volume contents: 1. Codrington, Robert: The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earle of Essex, 1646. -- 2. True mannor and forme of the proceeding to the funerall of ... Robert Earle of Essex, 1646. -- 3. G., C: An elegie upon the most lamented death of ... Robert Earle of Essex, [1646]. -- 4. Vines, Richard: The hearse of the renowned ... Robert Earle of Essex, 1646. From the Holford library

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