The informer's winding-sheet: or, Nine oaths for a shilling. [electronic resource] : Being a parable, in five allegorical discourses: on I. St. Paul's treatment and apology, on a charge of preaching against the government. II. Gallio's prohibiting the prosecution of St. Paul, for words; and a sketch of words accused, in a manuscript paper, privately handed about the public, answered. III. The liberty of one Protestant dissenter's preaching in his own way, asserted; proving the words were for the government: and a reply to the censure of indecent or light expressions, pretense of religion, ridiculing religion, wicked purpose, sedition, treason, blasphemy, disorder, &c. IV. The justice's and counsellor's Vade-Mecum, a disquisition on false witness, by the laws of God, nature, nations, philosophy, the civil, canon, and common laws; and the validity or nullity of evidence of words decided. V. The right to free speaking and reasoning in all lights, on trustees of government, no sedition, but one weight in the people's choice on occasion between in English free Protestant authority, and a supposed French popish dominion: and sedition defin'd. By Sir Mawdcope Moreclarke, of Hull, in Coates's rents, Garrn-Street, opposite the sign of the seven affidavits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henley, John, 1692-1756.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissenters, Religious--England--Early works to 1800.

Dissenters, Religious.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],54p. )

Other Title:

Informer's winding-sheet

Place of Publication:

[London] : Dublin, printed: London, reprinted for Lilburn Shaftsbury, and may be had at all pamphlet shops, Webb, Lyon, Jefferies and Griffiths, near St. Paul's; Nutt, Cooke and Kingman, at the Royal Exchange; Corbet and Owen, in Fleet-street; Dodd and Brett in the Strand; Woodsall, Winbush and Amey, at Charing-Cross, and in the court of requests; Stagg and Fox in Westminster Hall, and Chapelle in Grosvennr-street, M.DCCXLVIII. [1748]

Notes:

Sir Mawdcope Moreclarke = John "Orator" Henley.

The imprint is probably fictitious.

Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling.)

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T74611.

OCLC:

508752651