Anti-duello. The anatomie of duells, with the symptomes thereof A treatise wherein is learnedly handled, whether a Christian magistrate may lawfully grant a duell, for to end a difference which consisteth in fact. Also, the maner and forme of combats granted, with the seuerall orders obserued in the proceeding thereof, with the list of such duels, as haue beene performed before the Kings of England. Truly and compendiously collected and set forth by Mr. Iohn Despagne, for the good of soueraigne and subiect. Published by his Maiesties command.

Title

Anti-duello. The anatomie of duells, with the symptomes thereof A treatise wherein is learnedly handled, whether a Christian magistrate may lawfully grant a duell, for to end a difference which consisteth in fact. Also, the maner and forme of combats granted, with the seuerall orders obserued in the proceeding thereof, with the list of such duels, as haue beene performed before the Kings of England. Truly and compendiously collected and set forth by Mr. Iohn Despagne, for the good of soueraigne and subiect. Published by his Maiesties command.

Author

Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.

Publication

London :: Printed by Thomas Harper for B. Fisher, dwelling in Aldersgate-street at the Talbot,

1632.

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Subject terms

Dueling -- Early works to 1800.

Dueling -- England -- Early works to 1800.

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"Anti-duello. The anatomie of duells, with the symptomes thereof A treatise wherein is learnedly handled, whether a Christian magistrate may lawfully grant a duell, for to end a difference which consisteth in fact. Also, the maner and forme of combats granted, with the seuerall orders obserued in the proceeding thereof, with the list of such duels, as haue beene performed before the Kings of England. Truly and compendiously collected and set forth by Mr. Iohn Despagne, for the good of soueraigne and subiect. Published by his Maiesties command." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68036.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND MOST NOBLE, ROBERT, EARLE OF CARNARVON, LORD DORMIR, BARON OF Wing, &c. M. of the Hawke to his Maiesty.
• A Discourse wherein is discussed this question, viz. Whether a Christian Magistrate may grant a Duell, for deciding of the matter when the true author of some fact committed cannot eui∣dently be discouered.
• THE MANNER AND forme of Combats anciently obserued before the Kings of England.
• A CATALOGVE OF CERTAINE COMBATS, GRANTED BY THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.