Markings

annotation: "This defence of the Penal laws is generally attributed to Sir William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. Another edition consisting of 14 leaves (this has twenty - but see Ames p1082 who says that both editions cont: 20 leaves: & he is right) was also published in 1583. In the following year it appeared in Latin under the title of Justicia Britannica; & in 1675 & 1688 it again appeared in English. It is reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany. The small tract of four leaves at the end does not appear to have been known to Lowndes in its English dress; altho' he mentions it under the title of "De summa eorum clementia &c" as annexed to the later version above mentioned." [Second upper endpaper verso (of sammelband).]

annotation: "Hibbert's sale 4-4-0 / in a recent cat. 5-5 / 7-11-6 [the price paid for this copy?]". Note that this is not the Hibbert copy (lot. 1611 in his sale of 1829, previously owned by Thomas Brand Hollis) but only a comparison of sale prices; Hibbert's is at the Folger. [Second upper endpaper recto (of sammelband).]