Mercurius rusticus: or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom. : Together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646..
Ryves, Bruno,1596-1677.
Barwick, John,1612-1664.Querela Cantabrigiensis.
Wharton, George,Sir,1617-1681.Englands Iliads in a nut-shell.
Richardson Currer,Miss,1785-1861,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for Richard Green, book-seller in Cambridge.,
1685..
With an additional engraved title page (A1v), with title: Mercurius rusticus The countrys complaint recounting the sad events of the late unparalleld rebellion.
In 4 parts. Parts 2 and 3, "Mercurius rusticus: or, The countries complaint of the sacrileges, prophanations, and plunderings, committed by the schismatiques, on the cathedral churches of this kingdom" and "Querela Cantabrigiensis: or, A remonstrance by way of apologie, for the banished memers of the late flourishing University of Cambridge" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. Part 4, "Mercurius Belgicus: or, A briefe chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this rebellion, to the 25th. of March, 1646" has separate dated title page; it is unpaginated; register is continuous.
Parts 1 and 2, by Bruno Rvyes, were originally published at Oxford as 21 separate newsbooks between 20 May 1643 and 16 March 1644. "Querela Cantabrigiensis" is attributed to John Barwick and may have also been issued separately in 1646 (Wing B1010). The portion of text of "Mercurius Belgicus" which is printed on quires X7-8 Y-Z⁸ 3A⁸ 3B1-2 was first published in 1645 as part of "Englands Iliads in a nut-shell" by Sir George Wharton (Wing W1544). It differs from the text of part 4, "Micro-chronicon", printed in the collected edition of 1648 (Wing R2446), though the events chronologized are almost identical.
Other issues include half-sheets inserted between S4 and S5 and between X3 and X4. Both half-sheets, or only one of them, may exist in copies with either imprint variant.
Leaf O8 is blank.
Text continuous despite pagination.
Includes index.
An imprint variant (Wing R2449) has R. Royston named as publisher in imprint.
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Armorial bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer on front pastedown.
Reprint. Parts 1 and 2 originally published weekly in 21 numbers: Oxford: 1643.
University of Cambridge
Cathedrals
England London.
Mercurius rusticus, or The countries complaint