1651 HOLY BIBLE Fore Edge Painting ENGLISH Leather KING JAMES Fine Binding KERR

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1651 HOLY BIBLE Fore Edge Painting ENGLISH Leather KING JAMES Fine Binding KERR:
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PRESENTING A RARE
FINELY BOUND
CONTEMPORARY 17TH CENTURY POCKET BIBLE
WITH A FANTASTIC AND ULTRA VALUABLE AND EXPENSIVE
SIGNED FORE EDGE PAINTING
AND PROVENANCE TO
SIR ROBERT KERR, 1ST MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND,
SIR WILLIAM KERR, EARL OF LOTHIAN,
AND POSSIBLY ARTISTICALLY ENHANCED BY
HENRY COMPTON, BISHOP OF LONDON, NOTED BOTANIST,
AND
PURVEYOR OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF
MARYLAND
IN NEW ENGLAND!
--0--The Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New,newly translated out of the originall tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.London : Printed by the Companie of Stationers, 1651.

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A rare and important pocket Bible, presented in its original gilt embellished fine leather binding, although the gilt has faded a bit. The spine has been nicely rebacked in red leather with designing reminiscent to the original with tooling,. raised bands etc. The remnants of an original clasp system remains with the silver hasps retained on the upper board. Presented with the illustrated engraved title page, as well as an additional engraved title to the New Testament. Pages all red lined with minimal soiling and wear, as shown. Measures 6.25\" x 3.75\" x 1.25\" thick. Page edges gilt with an ultra rare fanned 17th century English fore edge painting with floral motifs, and signed Compton. See more below for the possible artist, Bishop Henry Compton (1632-1715). Marbled EPs, the front containing an important armorial bookplate for Sir Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian (1636-1703). There is an additional inscription on the verso of the title written by Robert\'s father, William (1605-1675), indicating Robert\'s birth on March 8 of 1638. These nobles were important players in early Scottish and English reformation and Civil War history:
William Kerr, first Lothian, was appointed one of the four commissioners of the treasury in 1642, was lieutenant-general of the Scots Army in Ireland, and was appointed privy councillor in the same year. He entered Parliament in 1644 and joined Lord Argyll in expedition against Lord Montrose during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in 1644. He was one of the commissioners sent to treat with the king at Holmby House in 1647. He was appointed secretary of state in 1649 and was one of the commissioners sent by the Scottish Parliament to protest against proceeding to extremities against the king. he was a general of the Scottish forces in 1650. In 1662 he refused to take the abjuration oath The eldest son of Sir Robert Kerr, later 1st Earl of Ancram, he was born within St James\'s Palace in London and was educated at Cambridge University and at Paris. He accompanied George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to the Isle of Rhé in 1627 and served in the expedition against Spain in 1631. Robert Kerr, second Lothian, and William\'s son, was a volunteer in the Dutch War of 1673, succeeding his father in the earldom in 1675. Both son and father Lothian supported the Glorious Revolution and sat in the Convention of Estates of Scotland. He was appointed Lord Justice General of Scotland in 1689, holding the office until his death, and was re-appointed a privy counsellor by William III in 1690. In the same year, he succeeded his uncle Charles as Earl of Ancram.[1]He was Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland in 1692, and addressed the assembly with a speech advocating tolerance and liberality towards episcopal ministers wishing to be received into the Kirk, in harmony with the King\'s recommendations. However, the Assembly proved hostile, and the proposal was not taken up. He was created Marquess of Lothian on 23 June 1701, and was appointed Justice-General and a commissioner to treat for the union of Scotland and England in 1702. This ties us into the fore edge painting, which truly is the shining star of this book. It contains fantastic floral motifs, with what looks to be strawberries and other fruits, signed at the upper right \'Compton.\' Upon research, we are fairly certain this is Henry Compton, the Bishop of England who was a key player in the Glorious Revolution, and the unification of Scotland and England, where the two may have interacted and become friends. Compton was a noted botanist, which lays more claim to the motifs seen on the fanned pages. Most interestingly is the fact that Compton and his son set up the first Anglican Church in Maryland, tying this into the early Colonies.
At the Glorious Revolution, Bishop Henry Compton embraced the cause of William and Mary, being one of the Immortal Seven who invited William to invade England; he performed the ceremony of their coronation; his old position was restored to him; and among other appointments, he was chosen as one of the commissioners for revising the liturgy. During the reign of Anne he remained a member of the privy council, and was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange the terms of the union of England and Scotland; but, to his bitter disappointment, his claims to the primacy were twice passed over. He died at Fulham on 7 July 1713. He sent his son, John Compton, to Maryland where Henry had been given a land grant, and from afar, Henry helped set up the Anglican Church in Maryland.

While far from common, paintings have appeared on the fore-edges of books since the sixteenth century. The earliest example at the Folger collection, one of the better known groupings of early fore edge painted books, is a bible emblem book with a fore-edge painting of the arms of Oxford University and nature motifs:

Based on its style, this fore-edge painting was probably made not long after 1677, when the book was published. When most people talk about fore-edge paintings, though, they mean the nineteenth- and twentieth-century scenes, views, and portraits, not these ultra rare floral paintings from the 1600s. This Bible,being dated 1651, may truly be one of the earliest signed fore edge paintings out there! Don\'t miss an opportunity to get a truly important and rare 17th century English Bible with important provenance, and a most desirable early floral signed fore edge painting. A historical find, and a treasure that only few can call their own. Good luck!!

Henry Compton (bishop) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Right Reverend
Henry ComptonBishop of LondonChurchChurch of EnglandDioceseDiocese of LondonElected1675Term ended1713 (death)PredecessorHumphrey HenchmanSuccessorJohn RobinsonOther postsBishop of 1674Personal detailsBorn1632
Compton Wynyates, WarwickshireDied7 July 1713
Fulham, Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton
Mary Compton (née Beaumont)ChildrenJohn ComptonProfessionArmy officerAlma materThe Queen\'s College, Oxford

Henry Compton (1632 – 7 July 1713) was the Bishop of London from 1675 to 1713.

Early life

Compton was born the sixth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Northampton. He was educated at The Queen\'s College, Oxford, but left in 1654 without a degree, and then travelled in Europe.[1] After the restoration of Charles II in 1660 he became a cornet in the Royal Regiment of Horse,[2] but soon quit the army for the church. After a further period of study at Cambridge and again at Oxford, he graduated as a D.D. in 1669. He held various livings, including rector of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, and Witney, Oxfordshire.[1]

Episcopal career

He was made Bishop of Oxford in 1674, and in the following year was translated to the see of London, and also appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal.[1] He was also appointed a member of the Privy Council, and entrusted with the education of the two princesses, Mary and Anne. He showed a liberality most unusual at the time to Protestant dissenters, whom he wished to reunite with the established church. He held several conferences on the subject with the clergy of his diocese; and in the hope of influencing candid minds by means of the opinions of unbiased foreigners, he obtained letters treating of the question (since printed at the end of Stillingfleet\'s Unreasonableness of Separation) from Le Moyne, professor of divinity at Leiden, and the famous French Protestant divine, Jean Claude.

In 1676 he was instructed by Lord Danby to conduct an ecclesiastical census of the population, which became known as the Compton Census.[3]

In contrast to his liberality about Protestant dissent, Compton was strongly opposed to Roman Catholicism. On the accession of James II in February 1685 he consequently lost his seat in the council and his position as Dean of the Chapel Royal; and for his firmness in refusing to suspend John Sharp, rector of St Giles\'s-in-the-Fields, whose anti-papal preaching had rendered him obnoxious to the king, he was himself suspended by James\'s Court of High Commission in mid-1686.[4] The suspension was lifted in September 1688, two days before the High Commission was abolished.[5]

At the Glorious Revolution Compton embraced the cause of William and Mary, being one of the Immortal Seven who invited William to invade England; he performed the ceremony of their coronation; his old position was restored to him; and among other appointments, he was chosen as one of the commissioners for revising the liturgy. During the reign of Anne he remained a member of the privy council, and was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange the terms of the union of England and Scotland; but, to his bitter disappointment, his claims to the primacy were twice passed over. He died at Fulham on 7 July 1713. He sent his son, John Compton, to Maryland where Henry had been given a land grant, and from afar, Henry helped set up the Anglican Church in Maryland.

WorksHenry Compton circa 1675

Compton was a successful botanist. He also published, besides several theological works, A Translation from the Italian of the Life of Donna Olympia Maladichini, who governed the Church during the time of Pope Innocent X, which was from the year 1644 to 1655 (1667), and A Translation from the French of the Jesuits\' Intrigues (1669).

References

\"Compton, Henry (CMTN661H)\". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Arthur, Sir George (1909). The Story of the Household Cavalry. Vol. I. London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. p.205. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
Edward Carpenter, The Protestant Bishop: Being the Life of Henry Compton, 1632-1713, Bishop of London (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1956), p. 31.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1878). The History of England from the Accession of James II II. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. p.76.

Macaulay (1878), pp. 362–363.

This articleincorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). \"Compton, Henry\". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian PC (8 March 1636 – 15 February 1703), known as the 4th Earl of Lothian from 1675 to 1701, was a Scottish nobleman. He was styled Lord Kerr until 1661 and Lord Newbattle from 1661 to 1675.

The eldest son of William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian, he was born at Newbattle, Midlothian. He left Scotland and was educated at Leyden, Saumur, and Angers from 1651 to 1657. He unsuccessfully claimed the earldom of Roxburghe in 1658.[1] In 1661, his father lost an additional dispute with the new Earl of Roxburghe over the use of the courtesy title of Lord Kerr; it was reserved for Roxburghe\'s heir, and Kerr was thereafter styled Lord Newbattle.[2]

Lord Newbattle was a volunteer in the Dutch War of 1673. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1675. Sworn a Privy Counsellor in January 1686, he was removed by James II in September. Lothian supported the Glorious Revolution and sat in the Convention of Estates of Scotland. He was appointed Lord Justice General of Scotland in 1689, holding the office until his death, and was re-appointed a privy counsellor by William III in 1690. In the same year, he succeeded his uncle Charles as Earl of Ancram.[1]

He was Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland in 1692, and addressed the assembly with a speech advocating tolerance and liberality towards episcopal ministers wishing to be received into the Kirk, in harmony with the King\'s recommendations. However, the Assembly proved hostile, and the proposal was not taken up. He was created Marquess of Lothian on 23 June 1701, and was appointed Justice-General and a commissioner to treat for the union of Scotland and England in 1702. He did not see the project out, as he died in the following year.[1]

Lothian married Lady Jean Campbell (d. 1700), daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, in January 1660/1, by whom he had ten children:[1]

William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661–1722)
Lord Charles Kerr (d. 1735), appointed Director of Chancery in 1703, married Janet Murray, daughter of Sir David Murray, 2nd Baronet, and had issue
Hon. Margaret Kerr (bap. 1670), died young
Hon. Jean Kerr (bap. 1671), died young
Lord John Kerr (bap. 1673 – 8 September 1735), British Army officer
Lady Mary Kerr (bap. 1674 – 22 January 1736), married James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas
Lord Mark Kerr (bap. 1676–1752), British general
Lady Margaret Kerr (bap. 1678), died young
Hon. James Kerr (bap. 1679), died unmarried
Lady Annabella Kerr (bap. 1682), died young

Lothian also had a natural son, Captain John Kerr, who was slain at Douglas Castle by the Duke of Douglas.

He is buried in the family vault of Newbattle Church, Scotland.

Paul, Sir James Balfour (1908). The Scots Peerage: Innermeath-Mar. D. Douglas. pp.475–478.

Parliamentary Register, 1661

KERR, WILLIAM, 3RD Earl Of Lothian (1605 P-1075), eldest son of Robert, first earl of Ancrum [q. v.], by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Murray of Blackbarony, was born about 1605. He was at the university of Cambridge in 1621, but he did not graduate, and probably completed his education in Paris. On 6 Nov. 1626 he set out from Paris on a tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland. A journal of the tour is preserved at Newbattle Abbey. In 1627 he accompanied George, duke of Buckingham, in his expedition to the Isle of Rhe, and he witnessed next year the duke\'s murder by Felton. He also joined the expedition in aid of the States-general against the Spanish forces in 1629, and was present at the capitulation of Bois-le-Duc to the Prince of Orange on 14 Sept. He returned to Scotland in 1630, and about January 1631 married Anne, daughter of Robert, second earl of Lothian, and countess of Lothian in her own right. On 31 Oct. of the same year he was created third Earl of Lothian, and the next brother of Robert, second earl of Lothian, Sir William Ker of Blackhope, on laying claim to the title as nearest heir male, was prevented by the lords of the privy council from assuming it (8 March 1632). The earl was one of the suppliants against the service-book in 1638, and on 28 Feb. signed the national covenant in Old Grey Friars Church, Edinburgh. He also, on 3 Oct., attached his signature to a complaint against the means taken to force the people to sign the king\'s covenant (gordon, Scots Affairs, i. 122). He was a member of the assembly of the kirk which met at Glasgow in October of this year, and he supported the action there taken against the service-book. He was also one of the most prompt to lend aid to thecovenanters when, in the spring of the following year, they resolved to take up arms. On 22 March—the day succeeding the seizure of Edinburgh—he and other leading covenanters marched out from the city to Dalkeith House, and compelled the lord treasurer Traquair to deliver it up (balfour, Annals, ii. 321). With a force of fifteen hundred men he also joined the army of Leslie which advanced into England in August 1640 (ib. p. 383; Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser.

1640, p. 447; Robert Baillib, Letters and Journals, i. 257). He was present at the defeat of the royalists at Newbury, and on the arrival of the Scottish army at Newcastle he was appointed governor of the town, with a garrison of two thousand (balfour, Annals, ii. 388; Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1640

1641, p. 27). Lothian was the supposed author of \'A True Representation of the Proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland since the late Pacification, by the Estates of the Kingdome, against mistakings in the late Declaration,\' 1640. On 7 June 1641 he left Newcastle to attend the meeting of the parliament in Edinburgh. On 16 July he was chosen a member of the committee for the ordering of the house (balfour, iii. 9), and on the 20th one of the committee of the articles (ib. p. 21). On the conclusion of a treaty with the English on 25 Aug. the Scottish army was disbanded, and Lothian\'s governorehip of Newcastle came to an end. He was one of the commissioners appointed on the king \'anent the preparing of matters left by the treaty\' (ib. p. 53), and also served on ■other important committees.

In 1641 Lothian was named one of the four commissioners of the treasury. In October he was appointed to the command of one of the regiments sent to Ireland, and according to his own statement was lieutenantgeneral of the Scots army in Ireland, but without payment(Cal.StatePapers, Dom. Ser. 1655-6, p. 296). His regiment remained there till February 1644, but he appears himself to have been in Ireland for only a short period. In November 1641 his name was inserted by the estates in the list of the privy council in place of one of the names which they had deleted from the king\'s list (balFour, iii. 149). On 5 March 1642 he obtained a charter of the lordship of Jedburgh, and in December of the same year he was sent by the privy council of Scotland, with the approval of Charles I, on a mission to the court of France in relation to the position of the Scots guard in France. On his return he went to the king at Oxford to give an account of his embassy, but the king would not receive him, and, on account of rumours known

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afterwards to be unfounded, that he had been engaged abroad in treacherous designs, he was, after being kept for some time under restraint at Oxford, sent a prisoner to Bristol Castle. As his health, weakened by a severe attack of fever in France, suffered from close confinement to one room, the king granted him ultimately the liberty of the town (baillib, Letters and Journals, ii. 124); but he did not receive his freedom till the following March, and then only by exchange with Sir Charles Goring. Lothian was present at the parliament which met in June 1644, and on 17 July the house approved of his conduct and voted a sum of money to defray his expenses (balfour, iii. 222). In the same year he joined Argyll in command of the unsuccessful expedition against Montrose. He declined to accept the commission when thrown up by Argyll (baillie, Letters and Journals, ii. 262). He was one of the commissioners sent to treat with the king at Newcastle in 1647, and, with James McDouall of Garthland, was specially appointed by the Scottish parliament to attend on the kingon his journey to Holmby House, where they continued with him for some weeks. The parliament of 1647, in payment of his expenses in the public service, apportioned him 1,500/. out of the 20,000/. agreed to be paid to the Scots army by the parliamentarians, but according to his own statement he never received the money (Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1655-6, p. 20). He protested against the\' engagement\' of 1648, and after it had been condemned by parliament was appointed to the office of secretary of state, in succession to the Earl of Lanerick, who was deprived by the Act of Classes. He was one of the commissioners sent by the parliament of Scotland in 1649 to protest against proceeding to extremities against the king. According to Clarendon there was a secret understanding between Lothian and Argyll (Hist, of Rebellion, Oxford ed. iii. 384-5), but there is no tangible proof of any such understanding. The commissioners were, according to their orders, proceeding to Holland to communicate with Charles II, when they were arrested at Gravesend by a troop of Cromwell\'s horse (balfour, iii. 388). They were treated with courtesy,and sent under a strong escort to Berwick, there to be detained until the estates of Scotland should own their action. This being done, they were permitted to proceed to Edinburgh. Lothian was a member of the second commission appointed by the estates to proceed on 9 March 1650 to treat with the king at Breda. On the arrival of Charles in Scotland in 1650 the kirk desired that Lothian (who apparently declined) shouldbemade general of the Scottish

forces ( Whitelocke, Memorials). On 9 Aug. he was sent by the committee of the army to the king at Dunfermline to induce him to sign a declaration in favour of the covenanters (balfour, iv. 77). When, on 4 Oct. following, the king escaped from the thraldom of the covenanters at Perth and joined the northern loyalists, Lothian was appointed one of a commission to induce him to return (ib. p. 115). They succeeded, but had to make terms with the strictly loyalist party and pass an act of indemnity for them on 12 Oct. This procedure was severely blamed by the synod of Perth (ib. p. 119). Along with Argyll, Lothian took an active but unsuccessful part in inducing the extreme covenanters of the west of Scotland to come to terms with the northern loyalists. Subsequently he acted generally in concert with Argyll. On 14 Oct. he was appointed one of a committee to arrange for the king\'s coronation at Scone (ib. p. 123). According to his own account, he intended to have joined the Duke of Hamilton in his expedition into England in the following year, but could not get ready in time. He was about to sail to join the king when he heard of the battle at Worcester. He also states that when he ceased to be secretary on the triumph of Cromwell, he retired to his own house at Newbattle, and never passed any writs under the great seal, which he preserved until able to offer his services to the king (Correspondence, p. 434). The Laird of Brodie. however, relates that Argyll told him that Lothian had been tampering with the Protector (Diary of the Laird of Brodie, Spalding Club, p. 153). In any case, he endeavoured in 1655 to obtain not merely payment for his expenses in the cause of the covenant, but also compensation for having been deprived of the office of secretary of state in 1652 (Cat. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1655-6, p. 20). At the Restoration he went to London and presented a vindication of his conduct in the past (Correspondence, pp. 431-8). The king promised him some reward, and according to Sir George Mackenzie he received a grant of 1,000/.; but he himself affirmed that he received more promises than revenue. Having refused in 1662 to take the abjuration oath, he was fined 6,000/. Scots, and his finances having been previously in a crippled condition he found it necessary to part with his paternal estate of Ancrum. He died at Newbattle in October 1675.

By his wife he had five sons: Robert, fourth earl of Lothian [q. v.], Sir William Ker, Charles, Harry, and John; and nine daughters: Anne, married to Alexander, master of Salton; Elizabeth, to John, lord Borthwick;

Jean, died young; Margaret, died young; Mary, married to James Brodie of Brodie; Margaret, to James Richardson of Smeaton; Vere, to Lord Neill Campbell of Ardmaddie; Henrietta, to Sir Francis Scott of Thirlestane; and Lilias, died unmarried. A portrait of the Earl of Lothian by Jamiesone is at Newbattle Abbey.

[Sir James Balfour\'s Annals of Scotland; Robert Baillie\'s Letters and Journals (Bannatyne Club); Gordon\'s Scots Affairs (Spalding Club); Clarendon\'s History of the Rebellion; Diary of the Lairds of Brodie (Spalding Club); Correspondence of Sir Robert Ker, earl of Ancrum, by his son William, third earl of Lothian, 1875; Douglas\'s Peerage (Wood), ii. 137-8.] T. F.