A Iust and temperate defence of the five books of Ecclesiastical policie: written by M. Richard Hooker - Covell, William, d.1614?. (London : Printed by P. Short for Clement Knight, dwelling at the signe of the holy Lambe in Paules church-yard, 1603)
Notes on first flyleaf on the nature on sacraments, with reference to the writings of St Bellarmine, and quote from Peter Heylyn's History of the Sabbath Part II on second flyleaf beginning "The dictates and directions of particular men, which being themselves subject unto publicke order'. Notes on final endleaves and pastedown on 'free will', 'of our justification by faith' 'for good workes' and 'whether the lawes of magistrates bonde the conference of the faithful'.
Some pen markings, underlining. Some textual annotations in English & Latin in two or more hands, some trimmed.
Page pasted onto inside front cover [Newport B. White?] with list of the three items bound together and a note on errors in pagination: 'In the first piece [A Iust and temperate defence of the five books of Ecclesiastical policie] some of the page numbers are incorrect: - '25 on gathering E2(r) should be 27, 25 E3(v) 30, 25 E4(r) 31, 101 P1(r) 105, 132 Se(v) 134, 133 S4(r) 135, 154 V4(r) 152) See the author's remarks at the end on "senseless faults"'
S.T.C. 5881.
English.
Keywords: Hooker, Richard, -- 1553 or 1554-1600; Annotations; Insertions