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
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for Elizabeth Cellier, and are to be sold at her house in Arundel-street near St. Clements Church, 1680.
Added name
Cellier, Elizabeth, active 1680. Matchless rogue
Publication year
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.