A history of three of the judges of King Charles I. Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell: who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America; and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years. With an account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of the judges. By President Stiles. [Five lines from Hebrews]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795 1005

Language:

English

Physical Description:

357, [3] p., [1], ix [i.e., viii?] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., 1 port., maps ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

Hartford : Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1794.

Notes:

"The plates, which illustrate the various traditional abodes of the regicides, are numbered from 1 to 9 inclusive, but there is no plate 7 in any of the copies seen, and it is probable none was made."--Evans. Plates III, VIII and IX engraved by Amos Doolittle; frontispiece portrait of Stiles engraved by Doolittle after a painting by Reuben Moulthrop.

With an errata slip mounted on p. 357.

Printer's notice to the subscribers, p. [359].

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 27743; Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1425