Treatise entitled 'Observations politicall and civill'

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MS. Don. d. 93

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Treatise entitled 'Observations politicall and civill', beginning 'A commonweale is a certaine soueraigne gouernment', the argument signed T. B., 17th cent.

Dates

Creation: 17th century

Extent

135 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Don. d. 93, fols. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

MS. Don. d. 93

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 7455

Additional Description

Abstract

Treatise entitled 'Observations politicall and civill'

Biographical / Historical

Biographical details unknown.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991). Vol. 1, no. 39055

Custodial History

Signature of Thomas Bushell (fol. 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought from Blackwell's and given by Friends of the Bodleian, 1949.

Bibliography

First published by John Milton in The cabinet council (London, 1658), as a work of Sir Walter Ralegh. E. A. Strathmann, 'A note on the Ralegh canon', the Times Literary Supplement, 13 April 1956, 228, attributes the work to Thomas Bedingfield.