SCOTUS, Romoaldus Summarium rationum, quibus cancellarius angliae et prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendam esse serenissimam Principem Mariam Stuartam. Cologne, sumptibus Petrii Heningii, [?Bamberg, A. Crinesius] 162

8vo, pp. (ii) 109 (i); (vi) 68 (ii), 2 works in one. First Roman and Italic letter, printed sidenotes, second in Roman. Lightly browned throughout (poor quality paper). C19th olive green straight grained morocco, spine faded, corners rubbed. Stamp of H.N. Leftwich on free e.p. Two works on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The first is a Latin translation, of "The copie of a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester" sometimes attributed to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury which contains an account of the condemnation and execution of Mary Queen of Scots. It consists of the speeches, in this case with an additional catholic commentary, made by Sir Thomas Puckering, the Speaker of the House who petitioned Elizabeth to sign a warrant for Mary's execution, and Elizabeth's repsonses. The work also contains "Supplicium et mors", a translation with an added Catholic commentary, of the English government's account of Mary's trial and execution. The original English version does not appear to have been printed. This is followed by Latin poems in Mary's honour, and a letter from the German theologian/historian Joannes Pistorius (1546-1608) to Jacobus Gryneus. Romoaldus Scotus has not been identified and is likely to be a pseudonym.
The second work names Oberto Barnestapolio as its author. This has been identified as the pseudonym of Robert Turner (d.1599). Turner was educated at Oxford and Douai, where he was ordained and became professor of Rhetoric. He also taught at the German College in Rome where he held the position of prefect of studies and later became rector of the University of Ingolstadt. The first edition of this work was printed there in 1588 and the present copy contains the approbatio of Peter Stewart of the Theology faculty of that university. Stewart was undoubtedly from Britain, another catholic refugee who like Turner had found himself welcome in counter reformation centers of learning. He too had taught at Eichstatt which under the prelature of Martin von Schaumberg attracted many English and Scottish catholics and was known for its anti-Protestant stance. The present work was written for a German readership with the intention of refuting writings of George Buchanan attacking Mary, his former pupil, and protesting her innocence (Allison and Rogers, vol.I p.168). I: Shaaber R-145. BM. STC German C17th S1713. Allison and Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640, vol.I, 1059.
II: Shaaber T-172. BM. STC German C17th T823. Allison and Rogers, vol.I, 1272.

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