AN APOLOGIE FOR SVNDRIE PROCEEDINGS BY IURISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL, OF LATE TIMES BY SOME CHALENGED, AND ALSO DIUERSLY BY THEM IMPUGNED. BY WHICH APOLOGIE (IN THEIR SEUERALL DUE PLACES) ALL THE REASONS AND ALLEGATIONS SET DOWNE AS WELL IN A TREATISE, AS IN CERTAINE NOTES (THAT GOE FROM HAND TO HAND) BOTH AGAINST PROCEEDING EX OFFICIO, AND AGAINST OATHS MINISTRED TO PARTIES IN CAUSES CRIMINALL; ARE ALSO EXAMINED AND ANSWERED: VPON THAT OCCASION LATELY REUIEWED, AND MUCH ENLARGED ABOUE THE FIRST PRIUATE PROIECT, AND NOW PUBLISHED, BEING DIUIDED INTO THREE PARTES: THE FIRST PART WHEREOF CHIEFLIE SHEWETH WHAT MATTERS BE INCIDENT TO ECCLESIASTICALL CONISANCE; AND SO ALLOWED BY STATUTES AND COMMON LAW: THE SECOND TREATETH (FOR THE MOST PART) OF THE TWO WAYES OF PROCEEDING IN CAUSES CRIMINAL ... THE THIRD CONCERNETH OATHS IN GENERALL ... WHEREUNTO ... I HAUE PRESUMED TO ADIOINE THAT RIGHT EXCELLENT AND SOUND DETERMINATION (CONCERNING OATHS) WHICH WAS MADE BY M. LANCELOT ANDROVVES ... by [Cosin, Richard] - 1593

London: Imprinted ... by the Deputies of Christopher Barker ..., 1593. Three parts in one volume. [30],130,[10],140 [2(blank)]; [4],255,[1(errata)] pp. Small quarto. Old calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Title slightly smudged and soiled, old tide-mark in gutter of first two gatherings, with faint, shallow shadow of same reappearing in gathering F, visible stubs of early careful strengthening at gutters of gathering C, otherwise, generally a very good, crisp copy, complete with blank 2T4. A revised edition of the work first privately printed in 1591, in an edition of "fourtie copies, or there abouts ..." (Epistle to the Reader). This is one of two variants noted by STC, in this case with the literal date in the title imprint. The three parts have separate titles and independent paginations, but only the third part has a separate register and legitimately appears on its own on occasion. Cosin (1548 - 1597), a graduate of Trinity College, made a considerable mark as an ecclesiastical lawyer. DNB comments on this work: "Far more important was An Apologie: of, and for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall (1591); only about forty copies were initially printed, but in 1593 Cosin published a greatly enlarged version to refute attacks on the use of ex officio oath made by Sir Robert Beale and the common lawyer James Morice. The Apologie became the standard defence of the jurisdiction of the church courts and high commission." Lancelot Andrewes preached Cosin's funeral sermon in 1597, and appended to part three of this work is "Quæstionis: nunquid per ius diuinum, magistratui liceat, a reo iusiurandum exigere? & id, quatenus ac quousque liceat?" by Andrewes. ESTC S122948. STC 5821.