Englands warning-peece: or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S.
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- Title
- Englands warning-peece: or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S.
- Author
- Spencer, Thomas, fl. 1658.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by T.N. for Tho. Pierrepont at the Sun in Pauls Churchyard,
- 1659. [i.e. 1658]
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- Gunpowder Plot, 1605
- Great Britain -- History
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"Englands warning-peece: or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93674.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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TO The Courteous Reader.
AS time doth weare out the remembrance of actions most famous and worthy of marke: so Historie the message of antiquitie doth bring back time with the wonderfull workes thereof, to the knowledge of Poste∣rity, both for delight and benefit. The memorial of this most prodigious Conspi∣racie, which never had any fellow, being almost obliterated and forgotten in many places of the land, may be renewed, re∣vived, and presented to succeeding ge∣nerations, by the use of this little Storie. Little Books are fittest for little purses; Such a one as this, whose price (I hope) will never give just cause of repentance to
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the discreet buyer. All that I desire by it, is, that the great preserver of man may have everlasting glory, and our Nation his everlasting Protection. Fare∣well
Your Friend, Tho. Spencer.