Collection of speeches, tracts, etc. of political and general interest [manuscript], ca. 1630.

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Collection of speeches, tracts, etc. of political and general interest [manuscript], ca. 1630.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/458628067

Includes material about the trials of Sir John Perrot, 1592; Essex, 1600; Buckingham and Bristol, 1626. Also Hakewill's speech against impositions; a discourse on the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, with the Duke of Norfolk; Wentworth on the succession; Leicester's commonwealth; and accounts of Scotland and of France.

484 p. ; 39 x 28 cm.

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Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628

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Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601

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Hakewill, William, 1574-1655

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