Lawrence Braddon: Reflexions on the Vindication of the Countess Dowager of Essex

Scope and Content

'Reflexions on the vindication of the Countess Dowager of Essex & Bishop of Salisbury in gazetts of the 31st of July 4th and 7th of this present August and the Bishops reasons for the self murther consider'd and answer'd as also an abstract of what hath been most materially prov'd and made publick in detection of the barbarous murder of that unfortunate Lord Arthur (late) Earl of Essex in a letter to Mr. T. F. written by Lawrence Braddon Gent.', 30 folios. It is dated on p.57 12 August 1690. Inside the front cover: 'J. Lee. Hartwell, bound by Mr. Marshall Novr. 1844, No. 19/26'.

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Acquisition Information

Presented by W. Aldis Wright, 1906.

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Bibliography

The volume is supplementary to the publication Essex's innocency and honour vindicated, dated 15 April 1690.

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