1610 Cydonii, Apologia pro Heinrico Garneto, Jesuit in the Gunpowder Plot, Rare

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1610 Cydonii, Apologia pro Heinrico Garneto, Jesuit in the Gunpowder Plot, Rare:
$550.00

Eudaemon-Joannis Cydonii, Andreae. Ad Actionem Proditoriam Edouardi Coqui, Apologia Pro R.P.Henrico Garneto Anglo, eiusdem Societatis Sacerdote. Coloniae Agrippinae: Ionnem Kinckium, 1610. Small 8vo, vellum with lap edges; lacks ties & free front end-paper. The title page is somewhat soiled and damaged at the bottom with loss of a few letters, There is a portrait of Henry Garnet, which has a half inch hole in the bottom margin, but the rest of the text is good. Overall a good copy.

(18), 359, (1)pp [COMPLETE]

AE-J (1566-1625), which is possibly a pseudonym for Jean L\'Heureux, was a Jesuit. This apology relates to Garnet, also a Jesuit, who, though not directly involved in the Gun Powder Plot, learned of it through the confessional and gave the government no warning. This was in accord with his c. 1598 work, A Treatise of Equivocation which most interpreted as a defense of outright lying. Henry Garnet was provincial head of the Jesuit order in England; he was executed for treason in May 1606.

6 1/4\" x 4\"