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The true portraiture of the kings of England; drawn from their titles, successions, raigns and ends. Or, A short and exact historical description of every king, with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it; especially from William the Conqueror. Wherein is demonstrated that there hath been no direct succession in the line to create an hereditary right, for six or seven hundred yeers

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Title: The true portraiture of the kings of England; drawn from their titles, successions, raigns and ends. Or, A short and exact historical description of every king, with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it; especially from William the Conqueror. Wherein is demonstrated that there hath been no direct succession in the line to create an hereditary right, for six or seven hundred yeers

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Classmark: BC Pol/PAR

Creator(s): Parker, Henry (1604-1652)

Publisher: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1650

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], 42 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/288421

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002555659705181

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First edition.


"To the reader" is signed: Henry Parker. "In the preface,... Parker disavows writing the balance of the tract; my reasons for assigning the whole to Parker are given on pp.166-8 above." Michael Mendle, "Henry Parker and the English Civil War", Cambridge, 1995, p.193.


Indexed in: Wing(2) P429.

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Wanting: dedication? blank (?) last leaf. Pagination throughout in ms. 279-324

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