Heylyn (Peter)
Examen Historicum:
Or A Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes, Falsities, and Defects In some Modern Histories.
Description:
FIRST EDITION, lacking final blank, several highlighting pen marks to margin of preface and introduction
pp. [34, including 'Postscript to the reader' leaf], 294, [10], 208, [22], 8vo
contemporary calf, upper corners of front board restored, rear board with abrasions, edges worn, spine with gilt stamped floral devices between raised bands, good
Publication Details:
Henry Seile and Richard Royston, 1659
Notes: The Modern Histories of the title largely referring to Fuller's Church-History of Britain, 1655, Heylyn's criticism focussed particularly on its non-ecclesiastical digressions, suggesting that Fuller's book should more accurately be called 'Miscellanies', 'a Church Romance', 'The Banquet of Jests', or 'the Hundred Merry Tales'. It becomes clear through the text that Heylyn would have preferred Fuller to concentrate on Church authority in matters of doctrine, Church autonomy in its relationship with Parliament, Church continuity from past to present, the differences between the Church of Englan...moreThe Modern Histories of the title largely referring to Fuller's Church-History of Britain, 1655, Heylyn's criticism focussed particularly on its non-ecclesiastical digressions, suggesting that Fuller's book should more accurately be called 'Miscellanies', 'a Church Romance', 'The Banquet of Jests', or 'the Hundred Merry Tales'. It becomes clear through the text that Heylyn would have preferred Fuller to concentrate on Church authority in matters of doctrine, Church autonomy in its relationship with Parliament, Church continuity from past to present, the differences between the Church of England and continental Protestant churches, and the perils of religious schism, but it was Fuller's criticism of Archbishop Laud and the Church establishment immediately prior to the Civil Wars which particularly led Heylyn to state, as his purpose, the 'vindication of the Truth, the Church and the injured Clergy.' (In Fuller's reply, The Appeal of Injured Innocence of 1659, he suggests that many of Heylyn's points are 'no more needful or useful than a sixth finger to a mans Hand.') Peter Heylyn, alumnus of Hart Hall and Magdalen College, Oxford, Arminian, anti-Puritan and one time chaplain to Charles I, was a prolific writer, best known for his Microcosmus, 1621, and its extended version, Cosmographie, 1657. (ODNB; Patterson, Thomas Fuller, 2018) Rare in commerce (2011 last auction record). HIDE
Bibliography: (ESTC R33608)
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Price: £750
Subject: History
Published Date: 1659
Stock Number: 71333
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