An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq.
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An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq.
Author
Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.
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London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge, and Richard Tomlins,
1656.
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Subject terms
Mary, -- Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
James -- I, -- King of England, 1566-1625.
Sanderson, William, -- Sir, 1586?-1676. -- Compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son and successor, James the Sixth.
Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James.
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"An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62143.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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Page 9.
[That Cook the Atturney (he saies) be••ng retired from the Bar,
wh••lst Sir Walter was sentenced ••or Treason,* 1.1 to••d his man, that he
accused him but of Misprision:] And swears, [Upon the word of a
Chr••stian, Sir Edward Cook's own mouth told him so, since.]
Cook, that had both charged him home with direct Treason, & indeed
very unseemly, and often, called him Traito••, thou Traitor Raleigh, to
his face, should but turn his back from the Bar, and in an instant, af∣ter
Sentence, mince his Treason to misprision, is most unlikely:
[And to tell it since] to one without a name. But, we see how he
swears, [as he is a Christian;] perhaps he is none: No body, who
will give him credit?
[Having (he saies) done w••th his Treason, he descends to his Tra∣vells,
14 years after,] which he accounts in my H••story, to be Foli••
459. and as yet, no other faults to be found.