A True History Of The Several Designs and Conspiracies Against His Majesties Sacred Person and Government As They Were Continually Carry'd On From 1688 Till 1697. Containing Matters Extracted From Original Papers, Depositions, of the Winesses and Authentick Records As Appears By the References To The Appendix, Wherein They Are Digested. Published: With No Other Desing Then To Acquaint The English Nation That Notwithstanding The Present Posture Of Affairs, Our Enemies Are Still So Many, Restless and Designing That All The Imaginable Cares Ought To Be Taken For The Defence and Safety Of His Majesty and His Three Kingdoms.

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312 pages inc copious index + a 4 page catalogue of books printed by Abel Roper and another 4 page catalogue of books printed by R Clavel in Fleet St. Original late 17th century mottled calf, worn a little at corners and spine, with gilt rubbed on spine and hinges thin with some loss to leather at head and tail. It still has original endpapers, front paste-down has an armorial engraved bookplate of George Anthony Legh Keck. The contents are clean and the hand made paper still crisp. The two catalogues at the rear have become foxed. Small octavo (bound in 8's). * Richard Kingston was an English Political pamphleteer, clerical impostor and spy. Born about 1635. Claimed to have been Bishop of Galloway in 1662, but was found out and accused of forging his letters of orders. He was however minister at St James's Clerkenwell and stayed working there during the great Plague of 1666. He was immersed in controversy over this later, He spied for for the Jacobtes. He was discovered in 1692 and made to spy for the other side, his cover was blown when he testified in treason trials. This work a semi-official history of the Jacobite conspiracies was intended to influence the debate of the "disbanding of the army" and prove that John Lunt's "Lancashire Plot" of 1694 was genuine. Ref: [DNB] Wing; K615. ESTC R3193. Scarce. No copies located online at present time of listing. 4 copies located in Institutional libraries in the UK, none in the USA. N° de ref. del artículo 3582

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