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Rushworth (John, editor), The Trayl (sic) of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Upon an Impeachment of High Treason [...], first edition thus, London: Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and Ricahrd Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1680, portrait frontispiece engraved by Robert White, black-ruled, dedication leaf with historiated initial, contemporary panelled calf, some scuffs and minor losses, rebacked preserving some of the original spine with its morocco labels for when bound as part of Rushworth's State Trials, folio (32.2 x 21.5cm), [Wing R2333]
Provenance: 1) J: Trelawny, title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. Loosening ffep with pencilled provenance attribution to The Reverend Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet (1650-1721), one of the Seven Bishops tried and imprisoned in the Tower of London by James II's orders. 2) Wm Heysham Esq:r/Greenwich in Kent, Jacobean armorial bookplate to pastedown incorporating a maritime anchor. Almost certainly the same William Heysham (1691-1727), MP for Lancaster (1716-1727), described by a Lancaster Quaker as ‘an indolent man and of no service’.
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