Aulicus Coquinariae: Or A Vindication In Answer to a Pamphlet, Entituled The Court and Character of King James. Pretended to be penned by Sir A. W. and published since his death, 1650
London: Henry Seile, 1650.
First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo, pp [vi], 205, bound in full calf with title and date stamped in gilt on spine. Front board and front free endpaper detached but present, top and bottom margins closely trimmed, text clean. Old booksellers description and bookplate of Isabelle Brown affixed to front pastedown. ODNB: "In 1650 there appeared, posthumously, a libellous memoir, The Court and Character of King James, by Anthony Weldon, a disaffected former Jacobean courtier and member of the Kentish parliamentary county committee, who had died a year earlier. This was one of several historical works, critical of the Stuart monarchs, inspired by the virtual elimination of censorship and the advent of civil war, and it immediately stirred up controversy. Sanderson felt obliged to write a defence of James I's memory and to vindicate him from Weldon's criticism of the person, court, and conduct of the king. His defence was published as Aulicus coquinariae in 1650 and addressed Weldon's accusations point by point. Though the Aulicus appeared anonymously, and was once misattributed to Peter Heylyn, it is unquestionably by Sanderson, who in any case avowed his authorship in the preface to his Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her Son James (1656)—a more substantial work in which Sanderson now took aim at a more respectable, if equally damning, history of James I published by Arthur Wilson in 1653." ESTC R203447; Wing S-645.
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