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The charge of Sir Francis Bacon ... touching duells, vpon an information in the Star-Chamber against Priest and Wright. With the decree of the Star-Chamber in the same cause

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Priest, William, fl. 1614, defendant, Wright, Richard, l. 1614, defendant, Great Britain. Court of Star Chamber · 1614 · [London] Printed [by G. Eld] for R. Wilson · 5 pictures

A 1614 London legal report printed for R. Wilson by G. Eld, recording Sir Francis Bacon's Star Chamber charge against the duelling of Priest and Wright, aimed at a readership of lawyers and courtiers. Its pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments: a numeral 37 above a grotesque beast-and-face frieze, a repeated frieze, a decorated initial letter, and a winged cherub panel, offering a designer dense, hand-cut border and initial-letter models.

Dueling

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