1680 1ed Mystery of English Restoration Charles II Scottish Patrick Hume Argyll

1680 1^ed Mystery of English Restoration Charles II Scottish Patrick Hume Argyll

 

John Price was a 17^th-century English royalist known for his role in the restoration of Charles II as King of England. Years after the restoration, Price published a book marking the details of the restoration – the correspondence between the King and members of Parliament, formation of English troops, and a thorough description of the chronology leading to and following the King’s Restoration.

 

Important provenance: This 1680 first edition was owned by Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont – a notable Scottish statesman who was suspected of complication in the Rye House Plot and took part in the unsuccessful, “Argyll’s Rising”.

 

Item number: #11196

Price: $950

 

PRICE, John

 

The mystery and method of His Majesty’s happy restauration laid open to publick view

 

London: Printed for James Vade, 1680. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [18], 162, [2]
• References: Wing P 3335;
• Provenance:
  • Armorial Bookplate – The Righ Hon^ble. Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont, Viscount of Blasonberry, Lord Polwarth of Polwarth & Lord High Chancelor of Scotland, 1702.
    • Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641 – 1724), known as Sir Patrick Hume, 2nd Baronet from 1648 to 1690 and as Lord Polwarth from 1690 to 1697, was a Scottish statesman.
    • His grandfather was the poet and courtier Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth and Redbraes who died in 1609.
    • He became a member of the Scottish parliament in 1665 as shire commissioner for Berwickshire, where he at once took a foremost place as defender of the Covenanters. He went so far as to bring imprisonment upon himself, and on being freed was suspected of complication in the Rye House Plot, so that he was forced to remain in hiding until he could escape in disguise to the Netherlands.
    • There he joined Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and embarked with him on the unsuccessful 1685 expedition to Scotland. Hume became a refugee with a price set upon his head; but he once more escaped abroad and lived at Utrecht under the name “Dr. Wallace,” professing to be a Scottish surgeon. He returned with William of Orange at the Revolution of 1688, and once again joined the Scottish parliament as the commissioner for Berwickshire until becoming Lord Polwarth in 1690.
    • With his estates restored and now a Scottish peer, he was made Lord Chancellor in 1696 and Earl of Marchmont in 1697, although when Anne came to the throne in 1702 he lost his chancellorship.
  • Handwritten – Alex^r Murray
    • Alexandery Murray of Stanhope was a British army office. He married Patrick Hume’s granddaughter Grizel (1692-1759), who later was known as Lady Murray of Stanhope.
  • Handwritten – Crawford
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
• Very rare and desirable

 

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