England and Wales. High Court of Justice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart, King of
Call Number:
Osborn fb146
Image Count:
108
Abstract:
Contemporary MS copy. A very full account, giving the words of the Act creating the court and the whole of the proceedings of all sittings both public and private.
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
Subject (Topic):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Trials, litigation, etc. Sources
Holograph manuscript transcription by I. Thomasen of a published edition of Eikon basilike, attributed to Charles I and John Gauden. The transcription is written in imitation of old English open-faced type, with a pen and ink drawing of Charles I in imita
Alternative Title:
Eikon vasilike. The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings.
Description:
Beginning of title transliterated from Greek. and On front pastedown and flyleaf: printed and typescript dealer descriptions and holograph description.
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 Gauden, John, 1605-1662
Published / Created:
Anno Dom. 1648
Call Number:
By37 30c
Image Count:
107
Alternative Title:
Eikon basilike. , Praiers, used by His Majestie in the time of his sufferings., and The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings
Description:
"... A true relation of the kings speech" etc., and "An epitaph upon King Charls": [4] p. at end., "A perfect copie of prayers ... Also a copie of a letter from the prince ... 1649": 1 l., 5 p. at end (signature [paragraph] 6)., According to a pencilled note on inside of front cover, this is one of the special copies presented by Charles II., Bound in old calf, stamped with the royal arms., Fully described in Almack, E. A bibliography of The King's book, no. 9 (lacking the last quire)., Purple and white satin is inserted in frontispiece for king's robe., and Signature collated by JB: A-H12[?]6 (G10 lacking). Pages 159-160 (G10) lacking.
Publisher:
Reprinted in R.M.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685
In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Verse begins: "True churchmen all, I pray behold & see,", Imprint below third and fourth columns., Date conjectured by cataloger based on other conjectured dates in ESTC., The title alludes to the prose compilation of trials and dying speeches first published under the same title in 1660., Mounted on leaf 31. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 Great Britain, High Court of Justice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart, King of England Great Britain. High Court of Justice
Published / Created:
1655
Call Number:
DA396 A22 1655
Image Count:
78
Publisher:
Printed for J. Playford and are sold at his shop in the Inner Temple
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680
"Burke kneels before a throne, from which the Prince of Wales has risen, eagerly holding out his hands for the head of Charles I which Burke proffers in a round box inscribed 'Treasury Box'; he says, "My Liege I told them in the House no day so proper to settle the Regency as Charles's Martyrdom". Sheridan stands behind Burke, leaning eagerly forward, and saying with a sinister scowl: "I too am for Dispatch such days best suit our Purpose"; from his pocket hangs a paper: 'Horn Tooke's Letter on the Princes Marriage' ('Prince' appears to have been scored through) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue as Rowlandson imitating James Sayers's signature., Two lines of text below title: "Why not debate it on Friday, I say it is the only day in the year on which it ought to be debated (Charles's martyrdom) and carried up in the black box." Vide Mr. Burk-s speech on Tuesday last., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Treasury boxes -- Allusion to Prince of Wales's letter on Regency restrictions, 30 Dec. 1788 -- Speeches: Burke's in the House of Commons, Jan. 27, 1789 -- Satire on Regency resolutions -- Regency crisis, 1788 -- Thrones -- Execution of Charles I, Jan. 30, 1649 -- Literature: Tooke, John Horne, A letter to a friend on a reported marriage ... ., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 Janry., 1789, by S. Fores, No. 3 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649