The Case of My Lord Roos. London: S.n. c. 1690
1690rif. 857911690. 12-1/2" x 9-3/4" 32 x 25.1 cm. 12-1/2" x 9-3/4" 32 x 25.1 cm. A Rare Late Seventeenth-Century Broadside on the Precedents for Parliamentary Divorce Broadside. Divorce. Manners John 1638-1711 Lord Roos. The Case of My Lord Roos. London: S.n. c. 1690. 12-1/2" x 9-3/4" 32 x 25.1 cm broadside single-column text in two parts separated by rule below headline second part begins "Anno v. Edw. vj." attractively matted and glazed in a modern frame. 20" x 16-1/4" 50 x 41.4 cm. Moderate toning a few faint later pencil notes small tears along horizontal fold lower left edge excised without loss of text. Very good not examined out of frame. $3500. A rare ephemeral publication setting out two leading precedents for the dissolution of marriage by Act of Parliament on grounds of adultery. The first concerns John Manners then Lord Roos whose 1670 divorce established a model combining separation bastardization of issue and the right of remarriage. The second recounts the more protracted Tudor proceedings involving William Parr 1547-1552 including the subsequent reversal under Mary I of England. Broadsides of this character functioned as vehicles of legal and political argument distilling complex precedents into accessible form for circulation in support of pending or anticipated legislation. The present example is plausibly connected with the campaign surrounding the attempted divorce of Henry Howard whose efforts in the 1690s and again in 1700 generated related printed advocacy. This copy formerly in the library of Lawrence Stotter and recently dispersed. OCLC Library Hub and the ESTC locate 1 copy British Library. English Short-Title Catalogue R173542. See also Stotter To Put Asunder: The Laws of Matrimonial Strife 115-117 this copy. unknown
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