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A true and perfect account of the discovery of a barbarous and bloody plot lately carried off by
the Jesuites in Ireland for the destroying of the Duke of Ormond - London: 1679. 4to. pp. [i], 5.
A very good copy in modern half calf. The 1st of two Wing A 20. Very rare, no copy in Ireland.
Letter dated January 10th relating how Joseph Jephson, whose father colonel Jephson had
been executed in 1663 for a plot upon the life of James Butler, duke of Ormond and who had
himself been reared a Protestant, was seduced by the Jesuits into converting to Catholicism
with the promise of a young and rich wife. He was then told that he had to kill the duke “to
assure her of the truth of his conversion”. Various plans were made, one of which was he
should shoot “the duke out of a garret-window, as he went to attend service in Christ-Church.
Sweeney 2 quotes the 1st Dublin edition
€250 - €350
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An abridgment of the English military discipline. Printed by special command for the use if His
Majesties forces. London: Printed by the assigns of John Bill, deceas’d: and by Henry Hills
and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1685. 8vo. pp. 271, [1].
Titlepage with royal coat of arms. Old calf rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce.
Wing (2nd ed.), A105. ESTC R7189.
€100 - €150
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An account of the publick affairs in Ireland since the discovery of the late plot - London: 1679.
4to. pp. [vi], 20. The 1st of two Wing A 376. Very rare.
The period covered is October 14, 1678 to April 7, 1679. Offers reprints of a series of
anti-catholic proclamations issued by the duke of Ormond in the wake of the “Popish Plot”.
This followed his return “from a progress made by him into Munster, to view the forts and plac-
es fit for fortification; and in particular from seeing the new fort begun by his order the March
preceding, for the defence of the harbour of Kinsale.” €5,000 had already been spent on this
project. Sweeney 76 quoting the 1st Dublin edition. A very good copy in modern half calf.
€100 - €150
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