[Rarebooks] A Matchless Rogue to Be Pilloried and Whipped

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[MEAL TUB AND POPISH PLOTS].  Case of Tho. Dangerfield: With Some
Remarkable Passages that happened At the Tryals of Elizabeth
Cellier the Popish Midwife, and the Earl of Castlemain, At the
Kings-Bench-Bar . . . Before Sir Will. Scroggs Kt, Lord Chief
Justice [etc]. Wing D184A. Folio.  Printed for the Author,
London, 1680.  ?Original self-wraps, disbound, light browning,
else a good crisp copy; 38 pages. PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=77413 $ 450.00

One of several tracts written by Dangerfield, the "matchless
rogue" who falsely invented the Meal Tub Plot, was tried for
libels against James II, sentenced to be pilloried and whipped,
and was accidentally killed as he was being returned to prison.

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