PARKER, Henry.

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The Case of Shipmony [sic] briefly discoursed, First edition(?) with the spelling "Policy" in the title; STC notes two other editions of the same year with the spelling "Policie". The Case of Shipmony "occupies a special place in the history of English political thought: The Case of Shipmony may be the first intellectually significant political pamphlet of the Long Parliament era. In this crisp and well printed quarto, Parker, a publicist and man of affairs, used issues raised during John Hampden's celebrated test case of 1637 to develop his own political views" (Michael Mendle, The English Experience: Its record in early printed books published in facsimile). From an important Sussex family, Parker (1604-1652) wrote anonymously, though he became well known under the pseudonym of the Observator in the pamphlet wars of the early and middle 1640s. See Michael Mendle, Henry Parker and the English Civil War: the Political Thought of the Public's "Privado", Cambridge, 1995.

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