Memoirs of the Honourable Col. Andrew Newport
Subtitle: a Shropshire gentleman, who served as a cavalier in the army of Gustavus Adolphus in Germany, and in that of Charles the First in England ... the whole forming a complete military history of Germany and England towards the middle of the seventeenth century.
Contributors: Newport, Andrew, 1623-1699, supposed author.
Edition: A new ed., with additions, and a portrait of the Earl of Essex.
Publisher: Printed for E. Jeffery and R. Faulder
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction; Royalists -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603-1714 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Memoirs of a cavalier.
Notes: The preface to the 1st edition, published under title "Memoirs of a cavalier" (London [1720]) states that the "Memoirs" had been found "in the closet of an eminent publick minister" and were probably written by a "gentleman of quality."  The publisher of the 2d edition (Leeds, J. Lister, n.d.) ascribes the authorship to Andrew Newport.  It has also been ascribed to Robert Harley.  cf. Dict. nat. biog.