John Cowell, 'Interpreter or Vocabularie'. English, c. 1613

John Cowell, Master of Trinity Hall (1554-1611): 'The Interpreter'. A copy of the notorious work, published in 1607, which through its absolutist opinions brought the author into disgrace and censure. Perhaps, given the interleaving, a first step by a civil lawyer to produce a revised version of the suppressed book, following the author's death. In the margin of fo. 1r is recorded: 'begun to be written in Trinitie terme 1613 and finished the next longe Vacation following at my brother Holts house'. An expurgated edition was not published until 1637.