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Pax Vobis, 1679: Its History and Author

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Extract

One of the most popular and intriguing Catholic books of controversy in the late seventeenth century was Pax Vobis. It first appeared in the year 1679 with the following titlepage.

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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1996

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1 The other editions are as follows:

Edition B: 1685. Slightly larger format. 14.5 cm high. [11] + 90 pp. 12°. Wing G 1991.

Edition C: 1685. 10.3 cm. high. 8s. [25] + 206 pp. There is a postscript on the page following p. 206.

Edition D: 1687. The Second Edition, Corrected and Amended. 14.2 cm. high. 12°. A-I6. [xii] +90 pp, pp. 69 to 73 repeated. Wing G 1992.

Edition E: 1687. [London] f. William Grantham. Second edition. Wing G 1992 A

Edition F: 1687. Fourth edition, n.p. 1687. 12°. 13.5 cm. high. 90 pp. (i.e. 94 pp. because pp. 81-84 are repeated) Wing G 1993

Edition G: 1687. Fifth edition, Corrected and Emended, n.p. No initials of author on tp. 12°. A-F12. [xvi] + 126 pp. Wing G 1994

Edition H: 1742. xv + 112 pp. ESTC n020325

Edition J: 1753. 118 pp. Not seen.

I have to thank J. M. Blom for the last two references. See English Catholic Books, 1701-1800 by F. Blom, J. Blom, F. Korsten, G. Scott (Aldershot, 1996), nos. 1215, 1216.

2 Many of the copies that I have seen have frayed pages much like catechisms or books of devotion. In some the page numbers and sigla have been cropped.

3 Link is here used in its alternative sense of ‘lantern’.

4 Preface p. A3V in edition F. This edition is selected because the 90 page format is the most prevalent one.

5 Preface A 4 r&v.

6 p. A5r.

7 Wing S 5570–5580

8 Birrell, T. A.English Catholic Mystics in Non-Catholic CirclesDownside Review, 94 [1976], p. 78.Google Scholar

9 They included works by J. B. V. Canes [2], Lord Castlemain, Hugh Cressy [2], John Dryden, John Gother, John Keynes [3], John Leybum, Edward Meredith, Emmanuel Schelstrate [2], John Sergeant [2], Richard Thimelby, Thomas Tilden, Peter Walsh, John Warner, Abraham Woodhead [4], and Edward Worsley.

10 I have not seen the first edition of A Discourse. According to Mr. Antony Allison the offending passage was removed from the second issue of that edition (also printed in 1671) and does not reappearin any later edition he has seen.

11 n.d. Wing J 1195. No. 564 in my English Catholic Books (Chicago, 1974) undergoing revision. It isa slight pamphlet of 25 pp.

12 Wing L 3570. It is a pamphlet of 48 pages.

13 p. 44.

14 Wing G 2155.

15 Brereley was the pen name of James Anderton (d. 1613). There were three editions of his The Protestant Aplogie in 1604 and 1608. [STC 3604, 3604.5, 3605]. On Anderton see Antony Allison in RH 16 [1982] pp. 17–41. Anderton quoted Protestant authors profusely. William Laud wrote in 1640 that Brereley was ‘the storehouse of all priests that will be idle and seem well read.’ Relation of a Conference (Oxford, 1849) pp. 101 f.

16 John Gordon (d. 1726) was the bishop of Galloway but later a convert to Rome.

17 See Louis, McRedmond, To the Greater Glory (Dublin, 1991) pp. 92 f.Google Scholar

18 Wing B 5021–2.

19 Collections towards Illustrating the Biography of Scotch, English, and Irish Members of the Society of Jesus (Exeter, 1833) p. 217.Google Scholar

20 John Floyd got into a good deal of difficulty because of his mock censure of the Apostles’ Creed in 1631. See ARCR I, 481, 481.1 and Allison, A. F. in RH 18 [1987] pp. 374–5 and 399 n. 139.Google Scholar

21 Stonyhurst Mss. Anglia V, #106.

22 Jaroslav, Pelikan, The Christian Tradition (Chicago, 1984) Vol. 4 p. 341.Google Scholar

23 George, Tavard, The Seventeenth Century English Tradition (Leiden, 1978), p. 16.Google Scholar