By His Excellency William Cosby, captain general and governour in chief of the provinces of New-York, New-Jersey ... A proclamation. : Whereas ill-minded and disaffected persons have lately dispersed in the city of New-York, and divers other places, several scandalous and seditious libels .. I have therefore thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, hereby promising twenty pounds as a reward, to such person or persons who shall discover the author or authors ... Given under my hand and seal at Fort-George in New-York this sixth day of November ... in the year of our Lord, 1734.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

New York (Colony). Governor (1732-1736 : Cosby)

Contributor:

Cosby, William, approximately 1690-1736.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3809.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Song made upon the election of new magistrates for this city.

Seditious libel--New York (State)--New York.

Seditious libel.

New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--To 1898.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Politics and government.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Printed by William Bradford], [1734]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Offering a reward of twenty pounds for the apprehension and conviction of the author of "two printed scandalous songs or ballads" (Evans 3836).

Signed: W. Cosby. By His Excellency's command, Fred. Morris, d. cl. Conc. God save the King.

Royal arms at head of title.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 3809).

Cited in:

Evans 3809

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