A recantation of an ill led life, or, A discouerie of the high-way law with vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders : as also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe : most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue and practise / written by Iohn Clauell ... ; approued by the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, and published by his expresse commaund.
- Title
- A recantation of an ill led life, or, A discouerie of the high-way law with vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders : as also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe : most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue and practise / written by Iohn Clauell ... ; approued by the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, and published by his expresse commaund.
- Author
- Clavell, John, 1601-1643.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for the authous [sic] vse,
- 1628.
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- Subject terms
- Brigands and robbers -- Poetry.
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"A recantation of an ill led life, or, A discouerie of the high-way law with vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders : as also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe : most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue and practise / written by Iohn Clauell ... ; approued by the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, and published by his expresse commaund." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18952.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- The Epistle Dedicatorie. To the Kings most Ex∣cellent Maiestie.
- TO HER NEVER TO BE equall'd MAIESTIE, the Queene of Great Brittaine, &c.
- To the no lesse ennobled by Vertue, then Honourable by their Titles, and Dignities; the Duchesses, Marchionesses, Countesses, with the rest of the most worthy and noble La∣dies, of the Court of that great Queene of Mercie, her Maiestie of Great Brittaine.
- To the right Honourable the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsaile, and Counsaile of Warre.
- To all his Honourable, Noble, and neuer to bee enough thanked Friends at the Court.
- To the impartiall Iudges of his Maiesties Bench, my Lord Chiefe Iustice, and his other three Honourable Assistants.
- To the right Worshipfull the Iustices of Peace, and Gentlemen of qualitie in this KINGDOME.
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To the Right Worshipfull, Sir Robert
Heath Knight, the Kings Atturney; and
Esquire, one of his Maiesties Iohn Clauell wisheth long life, and prosperitie in this, with eternall happinesse in the World to come. - To the right Worshipfull, his euer deare and well approued good Vncle, Sir William Clauell Knight Banneret.
- To all the graue, and learned Seriants and Counsellours at LAW.
- To the Reader.
- The Argument of the whole Booke.
- CLAVELL'S Recantation.
- To the Kings most excellent Ma∣iestie, Iohn Clauell wisheth a long, and prosperous reigne in this, and in the world to come, a plenteous share of those peculiar blessings, which God himselfe (out of his wonderfull and abundant goodnes) hath prouided and set apart (euen for the choisest of his elect) which are farre beyond the imagniation of mor∣tall men to conceiue, much more impossible to be expressed.