Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £900 |
November 5th 1645. The County of Suffolke Divided into Fourteene Precincts for Classicall Presbyteries, together with the names of the Ministers and others nominated by the Committee of the said County, according to Master Speakers Direction by Letters; With the names of the severall Committees of the County of Suffolke in their severall Divisions. London: "Printed for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard," 1647. 8vo (183 x 130mm). Woodcut ornaments on title, 10-pages (lightly browned, some repairs and creasing to final text leaf affecting a few words). Later wrappers (torn with some loss and lightly stained). Provenance: "These be since dead over whose names a line is drawn" (old inscription on A2, with c.120 names crossed through in ink); "The Regicide [?]Ed. Whalley's copy with his mss. notes" (later inscription on front free endpaper); "Puritanism ... Suffolk" (later [?]librarian's pencil inscription at head of title); "Free Public Library. St Martin-in-the-Fields" (later stamps on recto and verso of title and on final leaf, with library shelf number pasted onto the verso of title). Edward Whalley (c.1607-c.1675) was a major in Cromwell's army and a regicide. He fled to the American colonies after the Restoration.