[Drop-head title:] An Elegie upon the most lamented death of the Right Honourable and truly valiant, Robert Earle of Essex, &c.
[s.i.]..
[s.n.], [s.d., 1646?]
Quarto.
[4]pp. Disbound. Very small hole to head of initial leaf.
An elegiac tribute to influential Parliamentarian and first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Roundhead army, Robert Devereux, third Earl of Essex (1591-1646).
A leading figure in the political events which gave rise to the English Civil War, even before his appointment of Captain General and taking command of the first significant action of the Parliamentary army at Edgehill, Essex's control over the Roundhead army ended on the passing of the Self-Denying Ordinance in April 1645, and he died after hunting in Windsor Forest in September 1646.
Outside of the United Kingdom, ESTC records copies at just six locations (Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Smith College, Texas, and Yale).
A leading figure in the political events which gave rise to the English Civil War, even before his appointment of Captain General and taking command of the first significant action of the Parliamentary army at Edgehill, Essex's control over the Roundhead army ended on the passing of the Self-Denying Ordinance in April 1645, and he died after hunting in Windsor Forest in September 1646.
Outside of the United Kingdom, ESTC records copies at just six locations (Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Smith College, Texas, and Yale).
ESTC R201191, Wing G3.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 20909
