Good Brother in Obedience to Her Majesties Command

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1675-1713 : Compton)

Contributor:

Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.

England and Wales Privy Council.

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics--England--Early works to 1800.

Catholics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet ([1] p.) )

Place of Publication:

London : printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1706.

Notes:

Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).

Text comprises a letter from the Privy Council requiring "your Grace to issue out your orders to all the bishops within your province, directing them to require the clergy in their several dioceses to take an exact and particular account of the the number of the papists and reputed papists in every parish, ..." dated: From the Council-Chamber at Kensington the fourth of April, 1706; signed: Pembroke. P. Coningesby. Stamford. J Smith. Tho: Mansel. J Holt. J How. Ja Vernon.

Letter begins: After our very hearty commendations to your Grace: whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, have, by their humble address, acquainted Her Majesty with several instances of the very great boldness and presumption of the Romish priests and papists in this kingdom; together with their humble opinion, that for the safety of Her Majesties Royal person and government, a more watchful eye should be had over them for the future, ...

This edition has printed preliminaries at head of letter; another edition has the same setting but lacks the printed preliminaries; with a blank space for MS. preliminaries.

OCLC:

643158564