Proposals for printing, by subscription, Tartuffe: or, The holy hypocrite detected and exposed. : Being a genuine account of some entertaining, curious, and interesting adventures, in the life of an eminent Bishop in the north of Scotland, lately discovered in manuscript, in the ruins of an ancient building, supposed to have belonged to the Bishop's house at Brechin. Containing many curious anecdotes, and some very amusing scenes with regard to the Bishop's amours; - a description and character of some of his mistresses ... In these memoirs are interspersed some amazingly unnatural scenes that passed between the Bishop and three of his nieces (or daughters) Tesiphoné, Megera, and Alecto ... [etc.]
Cunningham, James,Captain.
Blair, David,1701-1769.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1764?]
This is a spoof prospectus which is referred to in a 1764 legal action entitled: 'Memorial for Mr. David Blair, minister of the Gospel and Brechin, defender, against Captain James Cunningham, defender'. David Blair, minister at Brechin, believing that his wife was having an adulterous affair with Captain Cunningham, published a story that the child recently born to his wife was not his but was fathered by Cunningham. Cunningham denied the charges, but admitted to publishing several satirical publications on Blair of which this is most probably one.
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