Ward's downfal or, the plot detected. A poem. Being a full and true account of a most horrid, barbarous, and bloody plot, to undermine the Hanover succession, bring in the Pretender, and blow up all true Protestants. As it was carrying on between the celebrated Mr. J---a W-rd, a L--y of Quality, and a Jesuit behind the Curtain; had it not been happily discovered by one of the Enlightened Authors of the Daily Courant. Now Published as a Warning to all True Britons, how they suffer themselves to be deluded by the Treasonable and Ill-Designing Cures of any bloody-minded Papist
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
printed for the author, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
1734, [1734]
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | "A satire on the quack-doctor Joshua Ward and on Lady Gage who helped distribute his pill. The Daily Courant 28 Nov 1734 had claimed that his pill was part of a Jacobite plot against England" (Foxon). - Braces in title. - English Short Title Catalog, T175631. - Foxon, W42. - Preface signed A. B. - Price from imprint: price Sixpence. - Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford) |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (8p) 2° |