1682 RARE Popish Plot 1st ed Edmond Godfrey Murder Mystery Titus Oates Law Trial

1682 RARE Popish Plot 1^st ed Edmond Godfrey Murder Mystery Titus Oates Law Trial

 

Edmund Berry Godfrey was a 17^th-century English jurist and magistrate remembered now for his mysterious death that spurred an anti-Catholic fiasco in England. In 1678, Godfrey became involved with Titus Oates and the Popish Plot. When the plans got out of hand, Godfrey unexpectedly disappeared – whether it be of suicide or assassination, it is unknown.

 

This rare first edition account of the events surrounding Godfrey’s death and the Popish Plot are accompanied by a full-page portrait frontispiece of Godfrey.

 

Item number: #24824

Price: $950

 

TUKE, Richard

 

Memoires of the life and death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, late Justice of the Peace for Middlesex, who was barbarously murthered by the papists, upon the first discovery of the horrid plot : together with A full account of the strange discovery of the murther, the tryal of the murtherers, and the sham-plot of the papists to charge the murther of Sir Edm. Godfrey upon himself, detected.

 

London : Printed for John Hancock, 1682. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: complete with all pages
  • [8], 150, [2]
  • Signatures: A⁴, B-K⁸, L⁴.
• References: Lowndes 799
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15.5cm x 9.5cm)

 

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