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

More sad and lamentable news from Bristol. 1682.

The editor has not met with a copy of this work.

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The devouring informers of Bristol &c. Being an additional account of some late proceedings of those ravenous beasts of prey, against Dissenting Protestants. Bristol. April 22. 1682.

A copy of this tract is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains four pages.

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Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick. Published from Tuesday, March 23 to Saturday March 27. [1680].

For publishing this newspaper, a copy of which is preserved in the Library of the British Museum, a prosecution was instituted against John Smith of Queen Street, in the County of Middlesex, Printer. The information charges that the defendant being a pernicious person, and contriving and maliciously intending to excite discord and scandal between the King and his people and the nobles of the kingdom, did on the twenty seventh day of March, in the thirty second year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Co: Midd:, publish and cause to be published a certain false, scandalous, and malicious libel intituled Smith's Currant Intelligence, or an impartial account of transactions both forraign and domestick containing among other things as follows:—The Project for carrying and recarrying of Letters from place to place throughout all the Cities of London and Westminster, for a penny a Letter, so often mentioned in the Intelligences, is, as Dr. Oates says, a farther branch of the Popish Plot; for that he is credibly informed, it is the most dextrous Invention of Mr. Henry Nevill alias Pain, who is notoriously known to be a great asserter of the Catholick cause, and shrewdly suspected to be a promoter of this way of Treasonable Correspondencies; And it is to be feared, as that good Invention of Pipes hath wholly destroyed the Trade of Tankard Bearer, so this silly Invention will only serve to ruine the poor Porters.[234]

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England's Alarm: or, a most humble declaration, address, and fervent petition to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, King of Great Britain and Ireland; and to his most honourable and grand Council the Parliament of England; as also to the City of London, and the whole nation in general. Concerning the great Overtures, Catastrophes, and Grand Occurrences about to inundate and pour in upon us, as the Judgments of Almighty God upon Antichrist and his adherents, and the Pride, Nauseancy, and Errour of Professors, in the years 1680 and 1681. Written by a true lover of the true Protestant Religion, and of his Tottering poor Native Country of England Johannes Philangus.