An Abridgement; Or, A Summary Account of All the Statute Laws of this Kingdom made against Jesuites

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An Abridgement; Or, A Summary Account of All the Statute Laws of this Kingdom made against Jesuites

Printed in London. 1666.

Issued in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London, and Item # 5 in The Catalogue of Benjamin Franklin's Library. In Very Good Condition, Disbound. Complete in All Respects Conforming to the ESTC Entry, Citation #R200827. Rare.

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Issued in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London, and Item # 5 in The Catalogue of Benjamin Franklin's Library. In Very Good Condition, Disbound. Complete in All Respects Conforming to the ESTC Entry, Citation #R200827. Rare.

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Issued in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London, and Item # 5 in The Catalogue of Benjamin Franklin’s Library. In Very Good Condition, Disbound. Complete in All Respects Conforming to the ESTC Entry, Citation #R200827. Rare.

The volume(s) measure about cm. by cm. by cm.

Each leaf measures about 200 mm. by 150 mm.

The full title reads as follows:

“An Abridgement; Or, A Summary Account of All the Statute Laws of this Kingdom made against Jesuites, Seminary Priests, and Popish Recusants; drawn up for the benefit of my dear Protestant Countrey men, and Specially of the Juries of England; who, in pursuance of his Majesties Proclamation, published at the request and desire of the two Houses of Parliament, are to Present and Indict all Jesuits, Priests, and Popish Recusants, according to the tenor and effect of the said Statute Laws, and of said Proclamation. / Done by a Protestant, to inform such of his fellow Subjects, that are ignorant of these Laws, and would be willing to do their duties, where and when the Laws injoyn them thereto. / … / London, Printed the Year, 1666.”

The volume is paginated as follows: [6]-20.

The volume collates as follows: A-B4, C2.

The Volume is in Very good Condition disbound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, some mild general toning, as well as some small creases and fox marks.

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Of Anti-Papal Sentiment After the Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London in 1666 was one in a series of events marking the seventeenth century as a traumatic one for the British Isles. Much of the troubling events of the century surrounded questions of religion, and so even those with no basis in the ongoing conflicts of the reformation were coloured by accusations of Popery and Non-Conformism. Such it was for the fire.

Allegations that Catholics had started the fire were exploited as powerful political propaganda by opponents of pro-Catholic Charles II’s court, mostly during the Popish Plot and the exclusion crisis later in his reign. This Abridgement is a fine example of the fear of Catholic plots, carried out by Jesuits, to overthrow the Anglican Church and a return to the persecution of Protestants seen under Mary Tudor.

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