Ward's downfal : or, the plot detected. A poem. Being a full and true account of a most horrid, barbarous, and bloody plot, to undermine the Hanover succession, bring in the Pretender, and blow up all true Protestants. As it was carrying on between the celebrated Mr. J---a W-rd, a L--y of Quality, and a Jesuit behind the Curtain; had it not been happily discovered by one of the Enlightened Authors of the Daily Courant. Now Published as a Warning to all True Britons, how they suffer themselves to be deluded by the Treasonable and Ill-Designing Cures of any bloody-minded Papist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

A. B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Satire, English--Early works to 1800.

Satire, English.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8p. )

Other Title:

Ward's downfal

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1734]

Notes:

Preface signed A. B.

"A satire on the quack-doctor Joshua Ward and on Lady Gage who helped distribute his pill. The Daily Courant 28 Nov 1734 had claimed that his pill was part of a Jacobite plot against England" (Foxon).

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price Sixpence.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

Foxon, W42

English Short Title Catalog, T175631.

OCLC:

642494759