P[eter], H[ugh]. Good Work for a Good Magistrate. Or, a Short Cut to Great Quiet. By Honest, homely plain English Hints given from Scripture, Reason, and Experience, for the regulating of most Cases in this Commonwealth. Concerning, Religion; Mercie; Justice, 1st edition, printed by William Du-Gard, 1651, woodcut headpieces and initials, shallow damp-stain in fore margin of quire A, small chip and old ink inscription (probably a pressmark) to title page, contemporary manuscript manicule to p. 62 and marginalia to p. 65, a few other trivial marks, old inscription 'Ex Dono G St G Bar.' to front free endpaper, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, spine rubbed, 12mo (14.3 x 8.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: inscription to front free endpaper, 'Ex dono G St G Bar.', possibly George St George, 1st Baron St George (c.1658-1735), Anglo-Irish politician, several times member of parliament for Roscommon, and appointed privy counsellor in 1715. ESTC R203158; Sabin 61193; Wing P1706. Peter (1596-1660), an Independent minister, travelled to New England in 1635 and became an influential figure in the Bay Colony. After returning to England in 1641 as an agent of the Massachusetts government he became a leading supporter of the parliamentarian cause, and was even rumoured to have been Charles's masked executioner. A close associate of Cromwell's, he was himself executed shortly after the Restoration.
P[eter], H[ugh]. Good Work for a Good Magistrate. Or, a Short Cut to Great Quiet. By Honest, homely plain English Hints given from Scripture, Reason, and Experience, for the regulating of most Cases in this Commonwealth. Concerning, Religion; Mercie; Justice, 1st edition, printed by William Du-Gard, 1651, woodcut headpieces and initials, shallow damp-stain in fore margin of quire A, small chip and old ink inscription (probably a pressmark) to title page, contemporary manuscript manicule to p. 62 and marginalia to p. 65, a few other trivial marks, old inscription 'Ex Dono G St G Bar.' to front free endpaper, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, spine rubbed, 12mo (14.3 x 8.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: inscription to front free endpaper, 'Ex dono G St G Bar.', possibly George St George, 1st Baron St George (c.1658-1735), Anglo-Irish politician, several times member of parliament for Roscommon, and appointed privy counsellor in 1715. ESTC R203158; Sabin 61193; Wing P1706. Peter (1596-1660), an Independent minister, travelled to New England in 1635 and became an influential figure in the Bay Colony. After returning to England in 1641 as an agent of the Massachusetts government he became a leading supporter of the parliamentarian cause, and was even rumoured to have been Charles's masked executioner. A close associate of Cromwell's, he was himself executed shortly after the Restoration.
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