List of Jacobean union tracts
This is a list of Jacobean union tracts, published or manuscript treatises bearing on the Jacobean debate on the Union.
Year | Author | Title | Comment |
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Around 1604 | Sir Thomas Craig | De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus | Published 1909 |
1604 | John Gordon | EnΩtikon or a Sermon of the Union of Great Britain | Preached before King James at Whitehall. |
1603 | John Gordon | A Panegyrique of Congratulation for the Concord of the Realmes of Great Britain | Written in French, translated by Edward Grimston, published under new titles in 1604. |
1605 | David Hume of Godscroft | De Unione Insulae Britanniae Tractatus | Favoured a union of equal partners |
1605 manuscript | David Hume | Tractatus Secundus | Not published at the time; printed in the collections of Robert Sibbald and Robert Wodrow.[1] |
1604 manuscript outline | James Maxwell | Britaines Union in Love | Emphasis on divine providence. |
1604 in Latin | Robert Pont | De Unione Britanniæ, seu de Regnorum Angliæ et Scotiæ omniumque adjacentum insularum in unam monarchiam consolidatione, deque multiplici ejus unionis utilitate, dialogus[2] Of the Union of Britayne | |
John Russell | A treatise of the happie and blissed Unioun[3] |
Year | Author | Title | Comment |
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Anonymous manuscript | A Briefe Replication to the Answers of the Objections Against the Union | On objections of the House of Commons. | |
Anonymous manuscript | A Discourse against the Union | Considers 19 European precedents, finding that only the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth had a serious "statutory union". | |
Anonymous manuscript | A Discourse on the Proposed Union between England and Scotland founded on the opinions of Historians Ancient and Modern | Rejects a legal union. | |
Anonymous manuscript | A discourse on the union as being triple-headed | Opposed a trade and legal union. | |
Anonymous manuscript | The Divine Providence in the misticall and reall union of England and Scotland | ||
Anonymous manuscript | A treatise about the Union of England and Scotland | ||
1604 | Anonymous manuscript | Pro Unione | For the union, anti-Catholic |
1604 | Anonymous manuscript | Rapta Tatio | For a legal union. |
Anonymous manuscript | Union by Concurrency of the Homager State with the Superior | Recommends an extra-parliamentary route to fuller union. | |
1603 | Francis Bacon | A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland | In favour of a union of fundamental laws. |
1604 | Francis Bacon | Certain Articles or Considerations touching the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland | Written for the Union commission. |
William Clerk | Ancillans Synopsis | Supported John Thornborough. | |
1604 | Sir William Cornwallis | The Miraculous and Happie Union of England and Scotland | Pro-union. |
John Dodderidge | A breif [sic] consideracion of the Unyon of twoe kingedomes | ||
1605 | Alberico Gentili | De Unione Regnorum Britanniae | Favours perfect union, from a civil law perspective. |
1604 | John Hayward | A Treatise of Union of the Two realmes of England and Scotland | Calls for some union of the common law and Scottish law systems. |
Sir Henry Savile | Historicall Collections | ||
Sir Henry Spelman | Of the Union | ||
1604 | John Thornborough | A Discourse plainely proving the evident Utilitie and urgent necessitie of the desired happie Union of the two famous Kingdomes of England and Scotland | Reply to the House of Commons and their opposition to the change of the king's title. |
Undated pamphlet | John Thornborough | The Joiefull and Blessed Reuniting the two mighty and famous Kingdomes, England and Scotland, in their ancient name of Great Brittaine | Precedents for aspects of the union. |
References
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hume, David (1560?-1630?)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Pont, Robert" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Bruce R. Galloway & Brian P. Levack, The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (Edinburgh: SHS, 1985), pp. liv-lxi, 75-141
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