The true portraiture of the kings of England; drawn from their titles, successions, raigns, and ends, or, A short and exact historical description of every king with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it, especially from William the Conqueror : wherein is demonstrated that there hath been no direct succession in the line to create an hereditary right for six or seven hundred years, faithfully collected out of our best histories and humbly presented to the Parliament of England, to which is added the political catechism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kings and rulers.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Succession--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 63 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

True portraiture of the kings of England drawn from their titles, successions, raigns, and ends

Short and exact historical description of every king with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it, especially from William the Conqueror

Fingerprint:

r-is n-e. ked- buha (3) 1688 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year 1688.

Notes:

"To the reader" signed: H.P. [i.e. Henry Parker].

First printed in 1650. This edition includes "the political catechism sometimes erroneously ascribed to Parker; a few internal changes (e.g. p. 29, 39) and a new ending (p. 40-48) accomodated the Restoration and late Revolution".--Cf. Mendle, Michael. Henry Parker and the English Civil War (Cambridge, 1995).

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P430

ESTC, R2924

OCLC:

5507760