The Whole Life and Progresse of Henry Walker the Ironmonger. First, The manner of his conversation. Secondly, The severall offences, and scandalous Pamphlets the said Walker hath writ, and for which he is now a Prisoner in New-Gate [...]
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5,500 words, Guess
Page Count
22 pages
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- Open LibraryOL58595738M
- OCLC Control Numberbib_fict_5878914
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The Whole Life and Progresse of Henry Walker the Ironmonger. First, The manner of his conversation. Secondly, The severall offences, and scandalous Pamphlets the said Walker hath writ, and for which he is now a Prisoner in New-Gate. Thirdly, The forme of the Inditement which is laid against him, by the Kings Sergeants at Law, and his learned Counsell. Fourthly, His Conviction by the Jury. Fiftly, His Recantation, and sorrow for the publicke wrong he hath done his Majesty and the whole Kingdome. Here are also many remarkable passages concerning the offence, and apprehending the said Henry Walker, with a true Relation of his severall escapes and rescues from the hands of Justice; &c. Collected and Written by John Taylor. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [8], ff. [6] (blank). Signatures: A⁴. Patterned tooled leather, gilt spine title. Includes engraved device on title page, headpiece, and engraved initial. Bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and Robert S, Pirie. Inscribed "30" in ink on title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of this pamphlet giving the biography of Henry Walker, better known as Walker the Ironmonger, by John Taylor, a waterman turned poet and satirist. Both writers were engaged in a vicious pamphlet war starting since June 1641. Walker was unlicensed preacher and a parliamentarian, while Taylor was a royalist. On Henry Walker’s impostures, see the articles by J. B. Williams, in Notes & Queries, 11th ser., vols. 10-11 (1914-15; the issue of 18 December 1914 on ‘Wonderfull predictions’). See also T.J. Wise, The Ashley Library. London, 1922-1936, 7, p. 95; ESTC, R22104.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/t3c16/alma991042483039707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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