Lot 160
Law, crime and punishment
Collection of pamphlets, including acts of parliament, 17th-18th century
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Meal-Tub Plot; ‘The Popish Midwife’]. Malice Defeated: or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her Proceedings both before and during her Confinement, are particularly related, and the Mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered. London: for Elizabeth Cellier, and are to be sold at her house, 1680. Folio (30 x 20cm), [2] 48 pp., disbound, final advertisement leaf discarded [ESTC R203665];
Commonwealth of England. An Ordinance for Relief of Creditors and Poor Prisoners [and:] An Additionall Ordinance for the Relief of Creditors and Poor Prisoners. London: William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1654. 2 works, folio, [2] 373-382 and [2] 479-473 pp., disbound, woodcut arms to title-pages [ESTC R210212 & R210336];
Ibid. An Act for the better Suppressing of Theft upon the Borders of England and Scotland, and for Discovery of High-way Men and Other Felons. London: by Hen. Hills and John Field, printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1657. 2 copies, folio, both [2] 9 pp., disbound, one copy with a plain two-line border to title-page, the other with a type-ornament border, browning, first copy with light fraying to fore margins, more extensive in second copy [ESTC R30671];
Ibid. Instructions to be observed by the several Justices of the Peace in the several Counties within this Commonwealth, for the better prevention of Robberies, Burglaries and other Outrages. London: for Edward husband, 1649. Single half-sheet printed on recto only (26.8 x 17.6cm), caption-title shaved [ESTC R211323];
Whitaker, Edward. To the Right Honourable Sir Patient Ward, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London … the Humble Petition of Edward Whitaker Gent., Prisoner in the Tower of London. London: for Richard Janeway, 1681. Single half-sheet printed on both sides (28.6 x 18cm) [ESTC R22765];
[Popish Plot]. The Speech of William Late Lord Viscount Stafford, on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, immediately before his Execution. London: W. Bailey, 1680. Folio, 6 pp., disbound, deckle edges [2] 6 pp. [ESTC R37590];
[Ibid.] The Tryals of Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill, for the Murder of Sr. Edmond-Bury Godfrey. London: for Robert Pawlet, 1679. Folio, [4] 92 pp., disbound, retaining imprimatur leaf, bound at rear An Account of, (Together with) the Writing it Self that was found in the Pocket of Lawrence Hill [caption-title]. London: for Robert Pawlet, 1679, 3 pp. [ESTC R24642 & R17180]
Lloyd, William. A Sermon at the Funeral of Sr Edmund-Bury Godfrey, one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace, who was Barbarously Murthered. London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Henry Brome, 1678. 4to, disbound, black mourning border to title-page, bound with A1 (presumably a blank, imprimatur leaf or half-title) and final leaf (blank) [ESTC R20443];
[English Civil War]. The Several Speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the Scaffold immediately before their Execution. London: For Peter Cole, Francis Tyton, and John Playford, 1649. 4to, 43 pp., disbound [ESTC R202512];
and 12 others (these not collated, including: The Tryals … of Robert Charnock, Edward King, and Thomas Keyes, for the … Conspiracy to Assassinate … K. William, 1696, folio, disbound; The Trial of the Hon. George Gordon, 1781, 8vo, stitched as issued, engraved frontispiece; The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, 1725, folio, disbound; The Tryal of William Stayley, Goldsmith … found guilt of High Treason, 1678, folio, boards; The Tryal of Mary Blandy, Spinseter, for the Murder of her Father, 1752, folio boards; and similar (23)