The very copy of a paper delivered to the sheriffs upon the scaffold on Tower-Hill on Friday, Decemb. 7, 1683 / by Algernoon Sidney, Esq., before his execution there.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sidney, Algernon, 1623-1683.

Contributor:

Horne, Robert, active 1660-1686, printer.

Baker, John, active 1657-1685, printer.

Davis, Walter, active 1676-1687, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rye House Plot, 1683.

Trials (Treason)--England--London.

Trials (Treason).

England--London.

Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685.

Great Britain.

History.

Monarchy--Great Britain.

Monarchy.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)

Physical Description:

3 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 33 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R.H., J.B. and J.R., and are to be sold by Walter Davis ..., MDCLXXXIII [1683]

Notes:

Caption title.

In a variant edition Sidney's first name is correctly spelled "Algernon" in line 6 of title. Cf. ESTC.

Imprint from colophon.

"We do appoint Robert Horn, John Baker, and John Redmayne to print this paper and that none other do presume to print the same. Peter Daniel. Sam. Dashwood."--P. 3.

Signatures: [A²].

Printed in double columns.

The author justifies his belief in a constitutional monarchy and protests his conviction of treason.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Library copy has ms. notes in ink on p. [4].

Cited in:

Wing S3766

ESTC R12869

OCLC:

13043338