The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwell to the Revolution / By an Englilh-Man [sic].

Date:
1721
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwell to the Revolution / By an Englilh-Man [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Printer, and the faid Son the Meffenger of the Prefs ; thefe two confult what to do with it *, at laft they agree to fhare all the Money arifmg thereby. But upon Second Confideration, they fear Trouble will come of it, if they print it and publiih it with¬ out Authority \ at laft the faid Mr. Dennis was forc’d to go down to Father Peters, to get Authority for printing of it; Peters it feems takes it from the Man, carries it into the Council-Chamber, and brings an Order fign’d under Sunderland's Hand for the printing of it, ( tho’ the Bifhops were tried for publifhing it) they accordingly printed the faid Paper at the King’s Houfe *, that is, the Son unknown to any Perfon fets it privately at his Father’s printing Houfe, and works it off a-nights after all People were gone to Bed and this Dennis is employed in felling of them privately about the Town, and (if what he faith be Truth ) he got half a Crown a-piece for them in the City of London and Weftrmnfier} at laft it came to the King’s Ear ( no queftion as was defign’d by the Min iff ry ) and a pretended Search by this Meffenger of the Prefs made daily, but declared to the Secretary that he could not find out the Printer ^ at Jaft he pre¬ tends to find a Bundle, no lefs than a Hundred of them, and brought them down to Whitehall, as if fome Perfon had dropt them} thus their Matters were le~ curely and covertly carried on • and having well flock’d the Town with the faid Prints, for no Perfon durff venture to print them, becaufe this Meffenger was continually fearching every Printer’s Houfe, not fb much to ferve the Government, as to prevent them Ipoiling their Run ; at lafl Dennis takes a Countrey Jour¬ ney, and by Degrees fells them all over England■, whilft young Hills continually fupplieshim from Time to Time as he had Occafipn for them ^ and as he ftys they got Five Hundred Pounds betwixt them by felling this Paper. The Bifliops- wer£ hardly fent to the Tom?) and got fafe there, (tho’ they might have been at Liberty upon their own Bail if they would have given it) but on the *, ' ; ‘ “ £ ' ' ioth