Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription

Andreas Philopater was the pen name of Robert Parsons

Colophon reads: Getruckt zu Ingolstatt, durch David Sartorium. Anno M. D. XCIII

Translation of the author's: Elizabethae, Angliae reginae haeresin Caluinianam propugnantis, first printed Lyon, 1592

The Jesuit author responds to Queen Elizabeth's edict of 1591, entitled A declaration of great troubles pretended against the realme by a number of seminarie priests and Jesuists, sent, and very secretly dispersed in the same, to worke great treasons under a false pretence of religion, which banned the saying of the Catholic mass

Also includes references to Sir Francis Drake, Sir Richard Grenville, and Sir Walter Raleigh

Signatures: A-Z⁴ a-l⁴ m² (m2 verso blank)

Errors in paging: p. 27, 28, 39, 43, 45, 47, 53, and 64 misnumbred 26, 82, 31, 42, 41, 74, 63, and 30

Includes index

Title page printed in red and black; woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Backer-Sommervogel (1967 reprint)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Brooker Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Monasterij Wenigartensis an[n]o 1593 [the Weingarten Monastery in Swabia]: ms. inscription at head of title page

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