BURTON, Henry

by Henry Burton

£9,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

A fine, large margined, copy of this very rare work by the puritan Devine Henry Burton, a point by point rebuttal of the Papal bull issued by Urban VIII in 1626 in which he counselled English Catholics to abjure the Oath of Allegiance issued on the accession of Charles I. The work was particularly controversial for its virulent attack on Jesuits in the prefatory epistles to Charles I and to Buckingham which lead to the suppression of the work by the Bishop of London. [The book contains the] usual indulgence in anti-Catholic vitriol casting the Pope as Antichrist but it was in the special epistle to the duke of Buckingham that Burton was most controversial. Burton suggested that as the king needed money so desperately, he should take it from the Jesuits in the country. Buckingham was entrusted with the responsibility of protecting the crown, church, and true religion, and he was charged with searching everywhere, including his own household, for Jesuits who should be treated as traitors. After licensing by Jeffrey, this book was entered to the printer William Jones in the Stationers Registers on 26th April 1627. In spite of the legal entry, the Bishop of London suppressed the sale and the publishing of The baiting of the Pope s Bull ; as early as 20 May 1627 the masters and wardens of the Stationers Company were instructed to seize all copies. Suellen Mutchow Towers Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England. Burton (1578 1648) Puritan divine, educated at St. John s

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