The Legitimacy of Amica, Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester, Clearly Proved. With Full Answers to all Objections that have at any time been made against the same

London, Printed for Sam. Lowndes..., 1679. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 164 x 103 mms., pp. [x], 171 [172 blank], title-page in red and black. AND: A Reply to an Answer To the Defence of Amicia, Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester. Wherein it is Proved, That the Reasons Alleadged [sic] by Sir Peter Leicester, In his from Book, and also in his said Answer, concerning the Illegitimacy of the said Amicia, are invalid, and of no weight at all. By Sir Thomas Mainwaring of Peover in Cheshire, Baronet. 8vo, 164 103 mms., pp. [ii], 105 [106 balnk], with the autograph of George Shakerley on the top margin of the title-page. 2 volumes, similarly bound in contemporary calf, richly gilt spines, number I and II, with the book label of C. J. Shakerley, Esa. Somerford Park, Congleton, Cheshire, on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; front free end-paper in first volume detached, arithmetical calculations in pencil on recto of second front free end-paper, both volumes with joints cracked and spines rubbed. "Like his father, Mainwaring loved books and cultivated learning. Between 1673 and 1679 he and his kinsman Sir Peter Leycester exchanged insults and arguments in print over the illegitimacy of their remote common ancestress, Amicia, daughter of Hugh of Cyfeilog, earl of Chester, alleged in Leycester's Historical Antiquities (1673) and denied by Mainwaring. Eventually their arguments ranged over much of the social and political life of the twelfth century, and in so doing represented a milestone in historiography. These antagonists—both possessed of legal training, antiquarian zeal, and significant personal muniments—were able to urge each other, and occasionally themselves, to interpret twelfth-century material from the viewpoint of a twelfth-century nobleman, and not as a quaint aberration" (ODNB). A salutary example to those who wish to judge manners, values, and mores of Victorian times by today's modish inanities.