Irish Rebellion of 1798.- Letter distributed as propaganda giving an account of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, beginning "Having now a little peace and quietness, I sit down to inform you of the dreadful bustle and confusion we are in from these bloodthirsty rebels, most of whom are, thank God, killed and dispersed". manuscript, 2½pp., laid down in an album with other ephemera, including: a rare broadside printing of William Cowper's "Johnny Gilpin of Cheapside going farther than he intended"; a Ripon printed "Weather Table" (untraced): a printed form for Royal Hospital for Seamen, loosely inserted; a small manuscript broadside concerning the "sun's rising and setting to every inclination"; a defective copy of the very rare Halifax printed "Geography in Miniature"; a broadside Heroic Epistle from Major B-r-n to Captain S-th wtc.,, newspaper cuttings etc., some ff. loose, folds, browned, original half calf, worn, printed label "Varieties" on upper cover, upper cover detached, spine worn and creased, ephemera v.s., album 4to, v.d., 1798- [early 1800s].
Irish Rebellion of 1798.- Letter distributed as propaganda giving an account of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, beginning "Having now a little peace and quietness, I sit down to inform you of the dreadful bustle and confusion we are in from these bloodthirsty rebels, most of whom are, thank God, killed and dispersed". manuscript, 2½pp., laid down in an album with other ephemera, including: a rare broadside printing of William Cowper's "Johnny Gilpin of Cheapside going farther than he intended"; a Ripon printed "Weather Table" (untraced): a printed form for Royal Hospital for Seamen, loosely inserted; a small manuscript broadside concerning the "sun's rising and setting to every inclination"; a defective copy of the very rare Halifax printed "Geography in Miniature"; a broadside Heroic Epistle from Major B-r-n to Captain S-th wtc.,, newspaper cuttings etc., some ff. loose, folds, browned, original half calf, worn, printed label "Varieties" on upper cover, upper cover detached, spine worn and creased, ephemera v.s., album 4to, v.d., 1798- [early 1800s].
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