Iustitia Britannica Per quam liquet perspicue aliquot in eo regno perditos ciues, seditionis & armorum ciuilium authores, regníq[ue] hostium propugnatores acerrimos, vt communi Ecclesiæ reiq[ue] publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulcatatos esse: propter religionem vero, aut cæremonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licet ab aduersarijs secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primo in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam.

Abstract

By William Cecil, Baron Burghley. A translation of: The execution of justice in England. A defense of the execution of Edmund Campion and other Catholics in 1581. "De summa eorum clementia, qui habendis quaestionibus præfuerant, contrà proditores quosdam ..", a translation of "A declaration of the favourable dealing of her Majesties commissioners appointed for the examination of certain traitours", attributed to Thomas Norton, has separate divisional title and pagination; register is continuous. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.