A brief history of the voyage of Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, to the island of Malta : where the Apostle Paul suffer'd shipwreck. And their cruel sufferings in the Inquisition there, for near four years ; occasion'd by the malice of the monks and friers against them, and their several conferences with them: and how they came to be deliver'dfrom thence, and their safe return home to England. To which is added, a short relation from George Robinson, of the sufferings which befel him in his journey to Jerusalem: and how he was preserved from the hands of cruelty, when the sentence of death was passed against him.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Katharine, -1692

Contributor:

Cheevers, Sarah, -1664

Robinson, George

Assigns of J. Sowle, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women writers.

Women printers--82773.

Women printers.

Women booksellers--84948.

Women booksellers.

Women--82663.

Women.

Local Subjects:

Women writers.

Women printers--82773.

Women booksellers--84948.

Women--82663.

Physical Description:

216, [2] p. ; 15 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Brief discovery of God's eternal truth.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by the assigns of J. Sowle, at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1715.

Notes:

Divisional titlepage: 'A brief discovery of God's eternal truth ... Written in the Inquisition of Malta, by Katherine Evans.' London: first printed in the year, 1663, p.148, catchword and register are continuous.

With a final leaf of advertisements.

According to Quaker sources, after the death of Jane Sowle (1630 or 1631-1711), Tace Sowle (1665?-1749) and her husband Thomas Raylton (1671-1723) continued the Sowle printing business as the "Assigns of J. Sowle." Cf. Carn, T. "An Early Quaker Woman Printer," The Friend (Feb. 4, 2011).

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Historical Society copy imperfect: A brief discovery of God's eternal truth, p. [2], 151-216, only.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T146341

OCLC:

644316416