Advertisement. Whereas some Persons have maliciously Reported, That the famous Bookseller was on Thursday the 4th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1704. infamously expelled a certain Society call'd the K-t C-t Club: And that the said Bookseller for his ill-timed freedom with some of the Principal Members, at the Reading of a Late Satyr upon his Parts and Person, was beaten to an Ungentleman like degree; and is since Clapt up in Mad-House. This is to Certify that the said Bookseller did of his own free Motion valiantly withdraw himself from the said Society, in scorn of being their Jest any longer; And that he was not Beaten (whatever he had Reason to fear) nor ever had the least disorder (upon that account) in his Intellects, but at this very day walks the publick Streets without a Keeper, and to satisfy any Gentleman's Curiosity is still ready to talk as sensibly as ever. Subscribed Jurat. ... me nosnoT bocaJ Jacob. There is now in the Press, and will be speedily publish'd a poem, call'd, Jacob's Revenge. Being a Comical Account of the Grounds and Reasons of the Bookseller's quitting the K-t C-t Club.

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[1704]