Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus / Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted

by W. H. Hart

A Satire against In-justice: or, Scroggs upon Scroggs. 1679. A folio broadside containing 16 three line stanzas.

Jane Curtis was prosecuted by direction of Chief Justice Scroggs, for selling this broadside—"Which his Lordship called a libel against him: and her friends tendering sufficient bail, and desiring him to have mercy upon her poverty and condition he swore by the name of God she should go to prison, and he would show her no more mercy than they could expect from a wolf that came to devour them; and she might bring her Habeas Corpus, and come out so; which she was forced to do; and after informed against and prosecuted to her utter ruin, four or five terms after."[207]

A copy is preserved in the Guildhall Library. The entire production is as follows:—

A
SATYR
AGAINST
IN-JUSTICE:
OR,
Sc——gs upon Sc——gs.

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1. A Butcher's Son (Judge) Capital,

Poor Protestants for to enthral,

And England to enslave, Sirs.

2. Lose but our Laws and Lives (we must)