New discovery of the sham-Presbyterian plot. Or, the substance of the information of James Carol - Broadsides from the Crawford Collection

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New discovery of the sham-Presbyterian plot. Or, the substance of the information of James Carol

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Given in upon oath before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London, July 1681. Together with an account of the apprehension of one Lamport an Irish papist, that endeavoured to suborn the said Carol. The said Lamport being seized in his bed the 10th. of this instant August..

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CRAWFORD.MB.226

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1681 [Date printed]
Popish Plot, 1678 [Date/event in text]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]

Subject / content:

Conspiracy
Informants
Roman Catholicism

Person / organisation:

Carol, James [Author]
Lamport, Peter [Subject of text]
Ward, Patience, Sir, 1629-1696 [Subject of text]
Janeway, Richard, active 1680-1703 [Bookseller]

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Broadsides from the Crawford Collection

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Around 2,200 items dating from 1505 to 1897. Broadsides were originally cheap, single sheets of text, sometimes with woodcuts. Extremely varied subject matter, including proclamations, news items, scaffold speeches, satires, political and religious controversies, and Jacobite risings. Also military campaigns, such as Napoleon's threatened invasion of England in 1803. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balca