A survey of the pretended holy discipline, containing the beginings, success, parts, proceedings, authority, and doctrine of it: with some of the manifold and material repugnances, varieties, and uncertainties in that behalf. Faithfully gathered by way of historicall narration, out of the books and writings of principall favourers of that platform, anno 1593.

Bancroft, Richard

London : printed by R. Hodgkinson, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Brooks at the Angel in Cornhil, 1663

[Anti-Puritanism: An early reprinting of Bancroft's Survey, first printed in 1593.] Contemporary boards, rebacked. Shelf wear. Generally a clean copy. Richard Bancroft was an archbishop of Canterbury and notable opponent to Puritanism.  He played a major role in the King James version of the Bible.  Early signature of George Frederick Nott.  Nott (1767-1841), was an English author and Anglican prelate.  Includes Nott's bookplate and related ephemera.  Wing B639; ESTC R170438.