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Total number of records: 141

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	141
English Literature	25

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
popish plot, 1678	141
executions and executioners	3
broadsides	3
trials (treason)	3
anti-catholicism	3
justices of the peace	3
verse satire, english	2
tories, english	2
last words	2
church and state	2

Count of Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	48
Ireland	2
Tangier (Morocco)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Oates, Titus, 1649-1705	13
Godfrey, Edmund Berry, Sir, 1621-1678	9
Great Britain. Parliament	9
Oates, Titus (1649-1705)	8
L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)	8
Catholic Church	7
Great Britain	7
Bedloe, William, 1650-1680	7
Dangerfield, Thomas (1650?-1685)	6
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712	6

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	129
Up to 1799	12

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BC Pol q/ACC

An Account of all those as have been taken into custody since the discovery of the new conspiracy

1683

Caption title. Anon. Imprint from colophon.

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BC Pol q/ACC

An Account of all those as have been taken into custody since the discovery of the new conspiracy

1683

Caption title. Anon. Imprint from colophon.

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BC Pol q/B--

A proposal humbly offered to the Parliament, for suppressing of popery

J. B

1680

Caption title. Publication information taken from colophon. Signed: J.B.

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BC Pol q/B--

Some reflections upon the Earl of Danby, in relation to the murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey : In a letter to a friend

J. B

[1679]

Caption title. Place and date of publication from Wing. Signed: J.B. Signatures: A².

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BC Pol quarto OAT

The King's evidence justifi'd: or, Doctor Oates's vindication of himself : and the reality of the plot, against a traiterous libel, called The compendium; contrived by the Jesuits, to the dishonour of the King and kingdom

Oates, Titus (1649-1705)

1679

Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) O-46.

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BC Pol q/MOW

The narrative of Lawrence Mowbray of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., concerning the bloody popish conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government, and the Protestant religion : wherein is contained I. His knowledge of the said design, from the very first in the year 1676, with the opportunity he had to be acquainted therewith,... II. How far Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Sir Miles Stapleton, &c. are engaged in the design of killing the King and firing the cities of London and York, for the more speedy setting uppermost the popish religion in England, III. An account of the assemblings of many popish priests and Jesuits at Father Rishton's Chamber ..., IV. The discovery of the erecting a nunnery at Dolebank in Yorkshire ..., V. A manifestation of the papists fraudulent conveying of their estates, himself being privy to some of them, VI. A probable opinion concerning the Jesuits, the grand instruments in these affairs : together with an account of the endeavours that were used to stifle his evidence, by making an attempt upon his life in Leicester-Fields

Mowbray, Lawrence

1680

Mowbray's instructions to the printers (facing title-page) dated February 5, 1680. Indexed in: Wing M2994.

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BC Lt q/COO

Sh------ ghost to Doctor Oats. : In a vision concerning the Jesuits and lords in the Tower

Oates, Titus (1649-1705)

1683

Caption title. Imprint taken from colophon. The ostensible author purports to be Titus Oates.

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BC Lt d/PHI

The plot in a dream : or, The discoverer in masquerade. In a succinct discourse and narrative of the late and present designs of the papists against the king and government. Illustrated with copper plates

Blount, Charles (1654-1693)

1681

On the Popish plot. Philopatris was the pseudonym used by Blount in his "A just vindication of learning" (1679) and "Reasons humbly offered for the liberty of unlicensed printing" (1693) and in the ...

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BC Lt q/HUE

A hue-and-cry after the plot

[1688-9]

Broadside. Title from heading; imprint from colophon. In verse. A satire; appears to refer to the Popish plot.

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BC Lt q/LES

Trialogue, or, A Threefold discourse betwixt the Pope, the Devil and Towzer concerning the affairs of England

[1681]

Towzer is Roger L'Estrange. Anon. Caption title. Imprint from colophon; date suggested by NUC pre-1956 imprints.

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BC Lt q/LOY

The loyal medal vindicated : A poem

1682

Partly in verse. Apparently not a specific attak on Dryden's The medal. Anon.