Shelfmark
Gc.7.24(01)
Title
Two letters from Rotterdam. Dated July 1. 4. stilo novo, 1642 wherin is discovered a most divelish and desperate designe contrivd by the Lord Digby, Captaine Hide, Sir Lewis Daves, Mr. Iermin, Mr. Percy, and other fugitive traytors in those parts, against the Parliament of England. With the names of the ships, number of men, armes, ordnance, bullets, powder, and match, with other ammunition now in readinesse, to be transported into the north. Also, the names of the most eminent persons which are to come over in the aforesaid ships. And divers other matters of extraordinary note and consequence. Likewise a letter sent from the right honourable, Robert, Earle of VVarwicke, to Mr. John Pym Esquire. Read in both Houses of Parliament, John Brown. Clericus Parliamen.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Printed at London : For Joseph Hunscot, and John Wright,, July the 8. 1642..
Physical description
8 p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Note
Signatures: A⁴.
Note
Includes headpieces and decorated initial.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R201100
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College, undated, on front pastedown.
Binding
Sammelband. 17th-century speckled calfskin over ?pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border; gilt fillet on board edges. Spine re-backed, with blind and fillets and gilt titling over red morocco label ("Petitions etc. 1641, 2 Vol. VII"). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of modern undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock. 20th-century repairs by R.L. Day.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 100 other items.
Copy-specific note
On the title page, the letter "e" in the word "letter" has either faded or has not been printed.
Subject
Subject
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.
Added entry--name
Hunscot, Joseph bookseller.
Added entry--name
Wright, John, ? - -1646 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Warwick, Robert Rich, 1587 - 1658 Earl of,
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52432