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[Overbury, Thomas, Sir].
The Connexion: Being choice collections of some principal matters in James his reign: Which may serve to supply the vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Rushworth's historical collections.
Publisher: Printed for W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar, London;
Date of Publication: 1681
Stock Code: 14460
Octavo, [8] prelims, 174, [1] publisher’s advertisement. Contemporary brown sheep, blind-rules to boards. Spine rubbed with small hole to leather and loss to head, shelf-wear to upper board. Upper hinge cracked. Insect damage to one leaf only. A very good copy. An English history of political and legal changes in the court of James VI/I (sovereign 1603-1625). This volume includes new regulations for the suppression of ‘pyracies on the sea’. Originally issued in 1604, it was this proclamation that ended the first ‘golden age’ of privateering that had allowed English corsairs to freely plunder its enemies on the Spanish Main. £750.00