Thank you! This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday--'De Jure inter Gentes'-- published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642.

Charles' head was still firm on his shoulders when this little brown-backed volume was struck off." "Who is the printer ?" "Philippe de Croy, whoever he may have been.

On the fly-leaf, in very faded ink, is written 'Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.' I wonder who William Whyte was.

Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.

His writing has a legal twist about it.