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A tongue-combat : lately happening betvveene tvvo English souldiers in the tilt-boat of Grauesend, the one going to serue the king of Spaine, the other to serue the States Generall of the Vnited Provinces : wherein the cause, course, and continuance of those warres is debated and declared.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Verstegan, Richard, approximately 1550-1640. Toung-combat, lately happening, between two English soldiers; in the tilt-boat of Gravesend.
- Verstegan, Richard.
- International relations.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1603-1625--Controversial literature.
- Great Britain.
- Netherlands--History--Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
- Netherlands.
- History.
- Genre:
- Controversial literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cock, F. William (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- White, Henry, 1761-1836 (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Wells[?], Bernard T. (autograph) (inscription)(Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 104 pages ; 20 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Tongue-combate
- Fingerprint:
- ldus u-e. e.n- thfr (3) 1623 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : [publisher not identified], 1623.
- Notes:
- Dedication signed: Henry Hexam.
- Erroneously attributed to Thomas Scott.
- A reply to: Verstegan, Richard. A toung-combat, lately happening, between two English soldiers; in the tilt-boat of Gravesend.
- The imprint is false; actual place of publication from STC.
- Running title reads: A tongue-combate.
- Quire O is in two settings: O1r line 9 from bottom begins (1) "quarrel" or (2) "quarrell."
- Signatures: A-O⁴.
- Printed marginalia.
- PrintePublished in Netherlands.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has several booksellers' descriptions affixed to front pastedown and to front free endpaper.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription: "Henry White. Close Lichfield. March XII MDCCCXIV" on front pastedown. Rev. Henry White was a librarian at the Cathedral at Lichfield; his library was sold in two successive auctions in 1826 and 1838.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Frederick William Cock (1858-1943), M.D. from Appledore, Kent, on front free endpaper.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Bernard[?] T. Wells[?] 1924" on verso of frotn free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC S117034
- STC (2nd ed.) 13264.8
- Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.) T111
- OCLC:
- 58468757
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