Poor Robin's prophecy, for the year 1701. Found several years after his death, hid under an old close-stool-pan. And now publish'd by his executors, to make some people merry, and the rest mad. Containing, comical predictions for every month in the year, carefully calculated, to make both sexes shake their sides till they break their twatling-strings

People / Organizations

• Poor Robin. (Author)
• M. Fabian ("printed by")
• M. Fabian ("sold by")

Imprint

London : Printed, and are to be sold by M. Fabian at Mercers-Chappel, in Cheapside, 1671 [i.e. 1700?]

Added name

Fabian, Mary, active 1698-1702, bookseller.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698, attributed name.

Publication year

1700

ESTC No.

R229898

Grub Street ID

102294

Description

[4], 28 p. ; 4°.

Note

Winstanley is usually credited with authorship of the "Poor Robin" pamphlets, although imitators wrote some of them. Cf. NUC pre-1956

Suggested publication date based on the two "lately published" books mentioned on the title page verso, which seem to have been published in 1697 and 1700, respectively

A satire on astrological predictions

Signatures: A]2] B-D]4] E]2.