A SCANDALOUS, LIBELLOUS, AND SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET ENTITULED, THE VALLEY OF BACA: or, The Armies Interest pleaded, the Purchasers Seconded, the danger of the Nation demonstrated in 34 queries, Answered.
And the present State of Affaires briefly Vindicated. By a True Lover to the Peace and Wellfare of his Country. Pp. 16, decorative headpiece; small f'cap 4to; bound in twentieth century half calf, spine lettered in gilt, brown cloth boards, faintly marked; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, small chip to top edge pp. 5/6, the letterpress sometimes slightly crooked, a little faint soiling; London, 1660. Wing S815; ESTC R203483. *The text is a reply to an untraced work by a 'Querist', who presumably was not in favour of the Restoration. (He is described on the final page as 'no friend to God, his King or Country, in regard that he, in a clandestine way. hath published such a wicked Paper tending to beget and foment Fears and Jealousies in His Majestie's subjects by Reflecting upon Public Actions, to put all in a flame and disturbance, out of which the Nations, through the goodness of God, lately have been delivered'). The Thomason copy of this pamphlet is annotated 'July 25', which is two months after Charles II landed at Dover from the Netherlands. Item #169785
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