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P[HILIPS,] G[EORGE.]
The interest of England in the preservation of Ireland - London:
1689. Licenced July 15th. 4to. pp. [viii], 28. A very good copy in
nineteenth century half calf. Wing P 2027.
If the suggested birthdate - 1599? - in the Dictionary of National
Biography is correct, then the author, who preceded Robert Lundy
as Governor of Londonderry, was in his 90th year when he pro-
duced the books and pamphlets with which he is credited! It may
well be yet another instance where father and son have been con-
fused into the one person. Philips adopts a singularly individual
line being at one and the same time anti-Jacobite and anti-Eng-
lish: He was appalled by the conduct of the government of Ireland
under James II, but now that William and Mary are on the throne
is angered by what he terms “the supine negligence and fatal
indifferency demonstrated by England in their cold concernment
and slow motions towards the recovery of Ireland.”
Provenance: The William Ruddell Clarke copy. Sweeney 3457.
€150 - €250
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THE POPES BRIEF:
Or Rome’s inquiry after the death of their Catholiques here in
England, during these times of Warre - London: Decem 7 1643.
4to. pp. [i], 37. A good copy in modern half morocco. Wing U 128.
The Papacy at the time was filled by Urban VIII. The pamphlet
also contains “several letters and papers of the Lord Inchiquines
in Ireland, intercepted by the earl of Warwick, and sent to the
House of Commons, wherein is discovered the ungrateful
and perfidious dealings of the said lord with the Parliament of
England.” Sweeney 3489.
€150 - €250
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