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CORNWALLIS (Sir Charles) A Discourse of the most Illustrious Prince, Henry, Late Prince of Wales, 1st edition, London: for John Benson 1641, small 4to, portrait frontispiece, disbound, page numbering in early ink hand.
Note: Sir Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), was knighted in 1603, and in 1604 became M.P. for Norfolk. Early in 1605 he was sent as resident ambassador to Spain, where he was very active in attempting to protect English merchants from the persecution of the Inquisition. In 1610 he became Treasurer of the household of Henry, Prince of Wales, and resisted the proposal to marry the prince to a daughter of the Duke of Savoy. In 1614 Cornwallis was suspected of fanning the parliamentary opposition to the King and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a year. Wing C6329.

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