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Credit: Sales catalogue 577: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![240 MAGGS BROS., 34 @> 35, CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W. 1882 1883 1884 1885 [FISHER (Payne)]. Rex & Episcopus; vel Panegyricum pro Hierarchia Restaurata, in Reverendissimus Patribus et Presulibus ad Parium Parliamen- tum Novemb. 20omo MDCLXI Revocatis, & felicissimé restitutis: Heroico Carmine decantatum. First Epition. 18 pp., folio, unbound. Londini, Typis Rogeri Danielis, ¢» J]. de Rubrd-Manu. Salutis Ara MDCLXII. Caroli Regni XIV. £6 6s With dedication to John Gauden, the supposed author of the “ Rikon Basilike.’’ We can trace no reference to this separate edition of Fisher’s ‘‘ Rex et. Episcopus,’’ the only one listed being that of thirteen years later, ‘‘ Deus et Rex, Rex et Episcopus,’ 4to, 1675. Payne Fisher (1616-1693) always wrote under the sobriquet of ‘‘ Pagani Piscatoris,’ or that of ‘‘ Fitzpaynaeus Piscator.’’ By his turn for Latin verse and his adulatory arts, or, as Wood termed it, by his ability ‘‘to shark money from those who delighted to see their names in print,’ Fisher soon became the fashionable poet of his day. He was made poet-laureate, or in his own words after the Restoration, ‘‘ scribbler ’? to Oliver Cromwell. GODFREY (Sir Edmund Berry). Oricrnat Procramation issued by Charles II., calling upon all his subjects to use every means to discover the murderers of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, and offering £500 for their apprehension and conviction. Printed on one side of a quarto sheet. Buack Lerrer. Royal Arms at head. Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the Twentieth day of October, 1678. London, Printed by John Bill, etc., 1678. 115s Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-1678), justice of the peace for Westminster, was found dead on the scuth side of Primrose hill, a month after having received the first: depositions of ‘Titus Oates. His death was attributed to the Catholics, but there is every evidence that the crime was perpetrated at the instigation of Dates himself. — OricinaL Proctamation issued by Charles II., offering £500 for information concerning the murderers of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, and offering protection for the informants. j De hie on one side of a quarto sheet. Buacx Letter. Royal Arms at read. Given at Our Court at Whitehall this Twenty-fourth day of October, in the Thirtieth year of Our Reign. London, Printed by John Bull, etc., 1678. AI 10s LONDON. Rocaus (John). A New anp Accurate Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the Country about it for nineteen Miles in Length and thirteen in Depth. In which is Contain’d an exact Description of St. James’s, Kensington, Richmond, and Hampton-Court Palaces, all the Main and Cross-Roads, ete. Engraved on seventeen double-page plates. Large folio, half morocco. London, Printed by W. Edwards, 1748. 46 Ios.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31647212_0262.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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