[1679 Popish Plot] Some Reflections Upon the Earl of Danby, in Relation to the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey. - In a Letter to a Friend

J. B. (pseud. of Henry Nevill)

Verlag: s.n., (London), 1679

Beschreibung

[caption title] Small folio (11-3/4 inches [30 cm] tall), pp. 4, signed "J.B."; toning and light soil, lacking self wrappers, issue with a comma after Godfrey instead of a period, pen notation "Henry Nevill alias Paine" in an old hand at the end of the caption title. Nevill, a known Papist, was implicated and held for suspicion of involvement in the Popish Plot. Ref. The Manuscripts of the House of Lords 1678-1693, pp. 78 and 154. A pamphlet written and published to help assert Danby's complicity in the Popish Plot. Godfrey, a magistrate involved in the investigation of the Popish Plot, was found face down in a ditch with a sword run though him ("That he was found with his own Sword through his Body;" from p. 3 ) just under his left breast. Suicide was quickly ruled out by the discovery that he had been strangled to death first - very tidy indeed. Wing B127. Ref. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; OCLC. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 950

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Titel: [1679 Popish Plot] Some Reflections Upon the...

Verlag: s.n., (London)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1679

Einband: Folded Sheet

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition, First Issue (assume).