Panegyrici Cromwello scripti. Vnus à legato Portugallici regis. Alter à quodam Iesuita.

Panegyrici Cromwello scripti. Vnus à legato Portugallici regis. Alter à quodam Iesuita.

Panegyricus clarissimo anglorum imperatori Olivero Cromwello scriptus.
Panegyricus Cromwelli.

[Leiden] : [Louis Elzevier], MDCLIV [1654]

46, [2] p. ; (4to)

Attributed to João Rodrigues de Sá e Meneses Penaguião. Cf. BLC.

The two works were also published separately as "Penegyricus Cromwelli" and "Panegyricus clarissimo Anglorum imperatori Olivero Cromwello scriptus." The Portuguese ambassador, perhaps the author of the first, was João Rodrigues de Sá e Menezes, conde de Penaguião, but the second has also been ascribed to him, possibly through an ambiguous note in the Thomason tracts catalogue : "This Panegyrick was written by the Chaplain to the Portugall Embassador," i.e. J. R. de Sá e Meneses' (I, 96).

The two tracts, especially the second, have also been attributed to Milton, but "the Miltonic connection is chimerical in the highest degree" (Columbia Milton, XVIII, 638).

Signatures: A-F⁴; F4 blank.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Louis Elzever Leyden"; "May".

British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.231[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R13693

Netherlands.

Bd.w. D478

Provenance: book-label of Kimbolton Castle; Montagu family copy