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Title: The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome: or, The History of Popery. A Deduction of the Usurpations of the Bishops of Rome, and the Errors and Superstitions by them from time to time brought into the Church... Author: [Care, Henry] Place: London Publisher: Langley Curtis Date: 1679-1683 Description: 5 volumes bound in 3. (sm. 4to) 19.8x14.3 cm (7¾x5½"), old calf, rebacked with modern buckram, new endpapers. Complete publication of this anti-Catholic paper edited by the political writer Henry Care, with some additional material as well. Care began the periodical in reaction to the alleged Popish Plot, and the publication caused his prosecution as author of the journal. and more particularly for a clause against the lord chief justice, William Scroggs, who himself sat as judge at the trial. The jury found him guilty, and Care was prohibited from printing his journal. The tables were turned charges brought against Scroggs, who was removed from the bench some months later, and Care continued to publish. At the beginning of each of the second bound volume are nine pages in contemporary ink manuscript of "Some briefe notes taken out of a Book called the history of Popish Sham Plots." Volume 5 lacks its title and preliminaries. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear to covers, some internal darkening and aging, occasional ink notations, a few leaves torn with loss; bookplates of John Jay Jones; overall very good. Item number: 277031a