A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; : and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation..
Douglas, John,1721-1807.
Bath, William Pulteney,Earl of,1684-1764.
Fowle, Zechariah,1724-1776,printer.
Draper, Samuel,1737-1767,printer.
Stone, C.,former owner.StEdNL
[Boston] : London: printed. 1760. Boston: re-printed, and sold by Fowle and Draper in Marlborough-Street.,
M.DCC.LX. [1760]
Attributed to John Douglas, "with Lord Bath's advice," in the Dictionary of national biography. The "two great men" are the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt. Douglas was the Bishop of Salisbury. He wrote many pamphlets of a political nature, and most famously, defended John Milton against a charge of plagiarism for Paradise Lost.
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Evans
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Manuscript signature at the head of the title page "C.[?] Stone's Book2.
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
United States Massachusetts Boston.