Malice defeated: or a brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her proceedings both before and during her confinement, are particularly related, and the mystery of the meal-tub fully discovered. Together with an abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by her self, for the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguized truth
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- Malice defeated: or a brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her proceedings both before and during her confinement, are particularly related, and the mystery of the meal-tub fully discovered. Together with an abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by her self, for the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguized truth
- Brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier; Matchless picaro; Postscript to the impartial readers
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London : printed for Elizabeth Cellier, and are to be sold at her house in Arundel-street near St. Clements Church, 1680.
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Cellier, Elizabeth, active 1680. Matchless rogue
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- 1680
- ESTC No.
- R203665
- Grub Street ID
- 80760
- Description
- [2], 48, [2] p. ; 2°.
- Note
- With a title page woodcut
With a final advertisement leaf
Includes "The matchless picaro; a short essay of the fortune and virtues of Seignior Don Tomaso Ganderfieldo, alias Fran...sc'o De Corombona", two leaves at end (quire N), which was also published separately in the same year as "The matchless rogue" (Wing C1662). It is a reply to "Tho. Dangerfield's answer to a certain scandalous lying pamphlet entituled, Malice defeated, or, The deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier" and is Mrs. Cellier's satirical account of Dangerfield's career
Inserted after p. 42 (L2) is a leaf (M1) containing "A postscript to the impartial readers," dated 21 Aug. 1680, and signed: Elizabeth Cellier
In this edition, the fourth line of the title ends: and
Signatures: A-L]2 M]2(-M2) N]2.