PAMPHLETS -- The Tryall of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell and John Spurr for feloniously stealing Mrs Pleasant Rawlins, a virgin and heiress of considerable fortune. London: Isaac Cleave, 1703. 2°.  (Title detached, upper margins cropped with slight loss.)  Stitched.
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PAMPHLETS -- The Tryall of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell and John Spurr for feloniously stealing Mrs Pleasant Rawlins, a virgin and heiress of considerable fortune. London: Isaac Cleave, 1703. 2°. (Title detached, upper margins cropped with slight loss.) Stitched.

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PAMPHLETS -- The Tryall of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell and John Spurr for feloniously stealing Mrs Pleasant Rawlins, a virgin and heiress of considerable fortune. London: Isaac Cleave, 1703. 2°. (Title detached, upper margins cropped with slight loss.) Stitched.

With 7 other disbound pamphlets and broadsides, many very rare: PATERSON, William. Edinburgh, the Ninth Day of November, One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Eighth Years. Present in Council. [Edinburgh? 1688]. One sheet. Woodcut at head. (Several holes causing slight loss.) Lists those who gave depositions ‘concerning the birth of his Royal Highness James Prince of Scotland and Wales’ [‘the Old Pretender’, born 10 June 1688]. NOT IN ESTC -- The Cornish-Hug or The Wrestlers against the Government. London: printed in the year 1701. One sheet. 2 copies – The Taunton-Dean Letter from E.C. to J.F. at the Grecian Coffee-house. London: printed in the year 1701. One sheet -- The Irish Hieroglyphick or A Dialogue between a Reverend Rattle-snake and a Dublin Swan. [Dublin?]: 1708/9. One sheet, folded. Woodcut at head. Dated in manuscript and with note saying: ‘upon Mr Higgins a Clergyman of Ireland’. 2 copies – C----- and Country. A Play of Seven Acts. London: for the author and T. Monger, 17[35]. 2°. 2 woodcuts. (Lacks frontispiece, piece torn from lower margins with loss to date.) Satire on the Walpoles, one of two issues – [WALPOLE, Horace]. The Speech of Richard White-Liver ... to the most August Mob at Rag Fair. London: W. Webb, 1748. Small 2°. No sale recorded in AE since 1971. Hazen Walpole 8 – Address to the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Frome-Selwood, as well to the Poor as to the Rich. Bath: R. Cruttwell, 3 July 1783. One sheet. (Short tears.) Exhorts the poor to make use of ‘clubs or friendly societies’ to avoid the need for parish relief. NOT IN ESTC.