A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England : wherein by most pitthy reasons and euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the worlde, wyth a large discourse of the difference betwene the ii. gouernementes of kingdomes: wherof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and politique administration conioyned. Written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knyght ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?

Contributor:

Mulcaster, Robert, active 16th century.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 509:1.

Standardized Title:

De laudibus legum Angliae. English and Latin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--Early works to 1800.

Law.

England.

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, 132 leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

De laudibus legum Angliæ.

Fortescue in commendation of the lawes of England.

Place of Publication:

[Imprinted at Londo[n] : In Fletestrete, within Temple barre, at the signe of the Hande and Starre, by Richarde Tottell, [1573]

Notes:

Translation of: De laudibus legum Angliae.

Latin and English in parallel columns.

Imprint from colophon.

With three final contents leaves.

Running title reads: Fortescue in commendation of the lawes of England.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1952. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 509:01). s1952 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 11195.

Beale, J.H. Engl. law, T358.

OCLC:

55193406