Shelfmark
Ge.1.16(129)
Title
A question answered: how laws are to be understood, and obedience yeelded? Necessary for the present state of things, touching the militia..
Varying form of title
Qvestion answered: how laws are to be understood, and obedience yeelded
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Printed for the good of the Commonweale., [1642]
Physical description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 cm. (full-sheet)
Note
Caption title.
Note
Sometimes attributed to Henry Parker. See Mendle, Michael. Henry Parker and the English Civil War (Cambridge, 1995), p. 194, and Mendle. Michael. Dangerous positions (U. of Alabama Press, 1985), pp. 179, 187-8, 224 nn. 29, 30.
Note
"The King claims the disposing of the militia by law: the Parliament says ... the ordering of it is in them, in the presence of foreign invasion and Popish party at home. The Answer distinguishes between the equitable and literal sense of law." -- Steele.
Note
Date and place of publication from Wing.
Note
Steele notation: Roman letter. a malignant foresaid.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R211827
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), Q179
Citation/references note
Thomason, 669.f.6[7]
Citation/references note
Steele, I, 2076
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Binding
Contemporary sprinkled calf with 20th century reback and repairs; boards have double-blind-fillet border frames; single gold fillet along board edges; text block edges stained red.
Copy-specific note
Bound with approximately 200 other broadsides, mainly dated 1641-1642.
Subject
England and Wales Parliament
Subject
Prerogative, Royal England Early works to 1800.
Subject
Law England Sources Early works to 1800.
Subject
Constitutional history England Early works to 1800.
Subject
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.
Genre/Form
Broadsides
Added entry--name
Parker, Henry, 1604 - 1652 attributed name.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B48340