Selden, John

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Selden, John
[Table Talk] The Discourse of John Selden Esq Or his Sence of Various Matters of Weight and high Consequence: Relating Especially to Religion and State
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With dedication to Sir Matthew Hale by Richard Milward, Selden's clerical amanuensis, and index, in a single mid-seventeenth-century mixed hand, red ruled margins, contemporary pagination, 110 pages, plus blanks, c.1660–1680; first few leaves slightly affected by damp. Contemporary blind-tooled speckled calf, spine in six compartments with lettering-piece.

Provenance

Trumbull family, thence by descent to the Marquesses of Downshire

Catalogue Note

The Table Talk of John Selden was collected by Milward between the author's death in 1654 and 1658, when the dedicatee, Matthew Hale, ceased to be a Judge of the Common Pleas (as he is described in the dedication). The text enjoyed circulation in manuscript during the Restoration period, but was not published until the change in political climate that followed the Glorious Revolution of 1688.