Three parliamentary speeches : contemporary manuscript, 1587 or later.

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Three parliamentary speeches : contemporary manuscript, 1587 or later.

1) "Againste the sscottishe Queene ... :" A speech (given 4 November 1586) discussing Mary, Queen of Scots, whom he calls "the daughter of sedition, the mother of rebellion, the nurce of Impietie" (p.5). 2) "The cause being so waighty as yt is ... :" A speech (given 27 February 1587) against "o[u]r dombe, Ignorante, and vnlearned ministerye", which Throckmorton considers "the bane of the church [and] commen wealth" (p.20), and also discussing puritanism. 3) "About some .20. yeares agoo [and] vpwarde ... :" A speech (given 23 February 1587) concerning the 1565 "greate meetinge [and] conference at Bayvn [Bayonne]," church reform and the need to counter Catholicism's "pestilent conspiracy against the Church of God and the professors of holy religion," and the fraught state of England's relations with its neighbors -- "no hope of Spayne, no trust in Frau[n]ce, colde comforte in Scotlande" (p.44).

3 items (51 p.) ; 21 cm.

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