Shelfmark
Gc.7.24(60)
Title
A most execrable and barbarous murder done by an East-Indian devil, or a native of Java-Major, in the road of Bantam, aboard an English ship called the Coster, on the 22. of October last, 1641. Wherein is shewed how the wicked villain came to the said ship and hid himself till it was very dark, and then he mudrdered [sic] all the men that were a board, except the cooke, and three boyes. And lastly, how the murderer himselfe was justly requited. Captain William Minor being an eye-witnesse of this bloudy massacre..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for T. Banks,, Iuly the 18. 1642..
Physical description
[2], 6 p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Note
Very early instance of the use of the Malay word 'amuck' (amok).
Note
Woodcut illustration on title page.
Note
News pamphlet relating to the murders by a Javanese man on board the Coster, an English East India Company ship, in October 1641.
Note
Page 6 numbered "I".
Note
Signatures: A⁴.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R20301
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed.), M2885
Citation/references note
Thomason, E.107[6]
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.
Subject
Subject
Mass murder Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Minor, William Captain
Added entry--name
Banks, Thomas, active 1637 - 1649 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52547