- 632
Penry, John
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- Th’Appellation of John Penri, unto the Highe Court of Parliament, from the Bad and Injurious Dealing of Th’Archb. of Canterb. & Other His Colleagues of the High Commission: Wherin the Complainant, Humbly Submitting Himselfe and His Cause unto the Determination of This Honorable Assembly: Craveth Nothing Els [sic], but Either Release from Trouble and Persecution, or Just Tryall. [La Rochelle : By R. Waldegrave], 1589 — A Viewe of Some Part of Such Publike Wants & Disorders as Are in the Service of God, within her Majesties Countrie of Wales, Togither with an Humble Petition, unto This High Court of Parliament for Their Speedy Redresse. Wherein Is Shewed, Not Only the Necessitie of Reforming the State of Religion among That People, but Also the Onely Way, in Regarde of Substaunce, to Bring That Reformation to Passe. [Coventry : Printed by Robert Waldegrave, 1589]
- printed book
Two works in one volume, 8vo (5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.; 133 x 86 mm). Second work: lacks final blank H4, worm trails along top margins affecting the headlines and occasionally the first lines of text. Seventeenth-century dark brown paneled calf; some losses on lower cover, joints rubbed.
Provenance
Robert Davies of Llannerch, North Wales, 1684–1728 (initials on title-pages and engraved armorial bookplate) — Lt. Col. P.R. Davies-Cooke, the Gwysaney Library (sale, Sotheby's, 1 June 1959, lot 85). acquisition: Purchased at foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch
Literature
STC 19602, 19613; ESTC S101168, S114394
Catalogue Note
First editions by Wales's most famous Protestant martyr. Penry, who did not seek ordination, preached in Cambridge and Oxford and in Welsh in his home country. In 1587 his Treatise ... Containing the Aequity of an Humble Supplication in the Behalf of the Countrey of Wales, That Some Order May Be Taken for the Preaching of the Gospel harshly criticized the Church of England and consequently engendered the unremitting ire of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1588 Penry set up a printing press on which the infamous Martin Marprelate tracts were printed. In 1590, his house and papers were seized, but he escaped arrest until 1593. He was convicted of sedition based on a harsh and offensive (but neither presented nor published) draft of a petition to the Queen that was found among his papers. He was hanged 29 May 1593; Whitgift's signature was the first of those affixed to his death warrant.