Tenenda Non Tollenda

by Fabian Philipps

Tenenda Non Tollenda
Title page from Tenenda Non Tollenda, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
Author	Fabian Philipps
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Published	London: Printed by Thomas Leach, for the author, and are to be sold by Abel Roper
Date	1660
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Language	English
Volumes	1 volume set
Pages	7 p. l., 276 p.
Desc.	19 cm. Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, A⁶, B-Z⁴, Aa-Mm⁴, Nn². Title within ornamental border. Marginal notes.
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In Tenenda non Tollenda, Philipps protest the abolition of military tenures, or the provision of land by the crown for military services. Philipps worried this would lead to the creation of a standing army, which could be used by the crown to oppress the people..

On the suppression of the court of chancery in 1653, Philipps published On the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Justice at Westminster (1653), for which he received the thanks of William Lenthall, speaker of the House of Commons. He wrote three works against the abolition of tenures by knight service: Tenenda non tollenda (1660), Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite (1661), and The Mistaken Recompense for Pourveyance and Tenures (1664).

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in later period-style calf with lettering piece and gilt fillets on the spine, dentelles to board edges and renewed endpapers. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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