[Vane, Henry]:

$3,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE TRYAL OF SIR HENRY VANE, KT. AT THE KINGS BENCH, WESTMINSTER, JUNE THE 2d. AND 6th. 1662. TOGETHER WITH WHAT HE INTENDED TO HAVE SPOKEN THE DAY OF HIS SENTENCE (JUNE 11.) FOR ARREST OF JUDGMENT, ... First and only edition, the Frank Deering copy, with his gilt leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Henry Vane was born in England in 1613, came to New England in 1635, and was elected governor of Massachusetts the following year, aged only twenty-three. Deeply religious, Vane was among the most radical of Puritans. He supported Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian crisis, and became a close ally of John Cotton. Vane's stay in Massachusetts was tempestuous, and he returned to England in 1637 to become a member of the Long Parliament, though his interest in New England continued. Vane was instrumental in procuring the Rhode Island charter, and his friendly efforts to aid the New England colonies were appreciated by Roger Winthrop and Roger Williams. Soon after the fall of Cromwell and the restoration of the monarchy, he was imprisoned for two years, convicted of treason, and executed. Lowndes says "The Tryal was written by a Sectarist in favor of Vane and printed by stealth." The text contains the speech he had intended to speak from the scaffold (but was forbidden by court order) which would have elaborated his revolutionary ideas on parliamentary supremacy and the compact between ruler and ruled, issues that resounded in colonial American history for more than the ne

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