Eglisham, George

The fforrunner of Revenge. Upon the duke of Buckingham for poysoninge the most potent King James of happy memorie king of great Brittaine, ffraunce and Ireland, and the lorde Marquesse of Hamilton and others of the Nobility. A contemporary copy of the pamphlet published in Frankfort in 1626, of which only one copy-at Emmanuel College, Cambridge-is recorded in the S.T.C. as No. 7548. It was translated into German in the same year. The English version was not published till 1642.

1626

1 volume 12 ll. (last bl.). folio. 30 x 19 cm. Unbound. Some margins frayed.

Purchased 1929.

A notice of Eglisham is in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).