Justitia Britannica : per quam liquet perspicue, aliquot in eo regno perditos cives, seditionis et armorum ciuilium authores, regniq[úe]; hostium propugnatores acerrimos, vt communi Ecclesiæ reiq[úe]; publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulctatos esse: propter religionem verò, aut cærimonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licèt ab aduersariis secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primò in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam.
- Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598
- Date:
- Anno M.D.LXXXIIII. [1584] Anno regni Reginæ Elizabethæ XXVI. Mense Martio
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Also known as
Execution of justice in England. Latin
Publication/Creation
Londini [i.e.Geneva?] : Excudebat Thomas Vautroullerius [i.e. J. Le Preux?], Anno M.D.LXXXIIII. [1584] Anno regni Reginæ Elizabethæ XXVI. Mense Martio.
Physical description
2 unnumbered pages, 75 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 13 pages, 1 unnumbered page
Notes
By William Cecil, Baron Burghley.
Imprint is false; actual place of publication and printer's name from STC.
A translation of: The execution of justice in England.
A defense of the execution of Edmund Campion and other Catholics in 1581.
"De summa eorum clementia, qui habendis quæstionibus prefuerant, contra proditores quosdam ...", a translation of "A declaration of the favourable dealing of her Majesties commissioners appointed for the examination of certain traitours", attributed to Thomas Norton, has separate divisional title and pagination; register is continuous.
In this edition, the first two words of title are in italic. In another edition, the first two words are in roman type.
Signatures: A-F.
Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 4904.5
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2059:17) s1999 miun s