A dialogue of the right of the kingdom amongst the Scots [manuscript], ca. 1650?

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A dialogue of the right of the kingdom amongst the Scots [manuscript], ca. 1650?

Written about 1657 in defense of the Scots' deposition of Mary, Queen of Scots, and first published in Latin in 1579. First English edition, in a different translation from this, 1680. This manuscript has a poem at the end.

1-3, 2-138 p.

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eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 7759172

Folger Shakespeare Library

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