Remainder | extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand. Collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry honourable persons, as a necessary prologue to the history of his tryall; for which the criminall part of his life, is specially reserved. By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier. It is ordered this sixteenth day of August 1644. By the Committee of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, A breviate of the life of William Laud, &c. bee printed by Michaell Sparke Senior. John VVhite. |