Petitions and answers
By: edited by F. O., citizen and weaver.
Contributors: Ouvry, Frederic, 1814-1881.; F. O., citizen and weaver.; O., F., citizen and weaver.
Publisher: [F. Ouvry]
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709.; Prostitution -- England -- London.; Mistresses -- Great Britain.
Notes: Five works relating to the London apprentices' attack on a number of brothels in March 1668, all originally published in the same year. The 1st 3 are in verse. The last 2 constitute libels against Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine; cf. A. Andrews. The royal whore, 1970, p. 176-180.
"Privately printed."
Edited and issued by F. Ouvry. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Table of contents: title: The whores petition to the London prentices.; title: The prentices answer to the whores petition.; title: The citizens reply to the whores petition, and prentices anwer.; title: The poor-whores petition, to the most splendid ... lady of pleasure, the Countess of Castlemayne, &c.; title: The gracious answer of the most illustrious lady of pleasure, the Countess of Castlem .........., to the poor-whores petition.