Honesty in distress, but reliev'd by no party. Giving an account how she went to court but was scorn'd & slighted; next she went to Westminster-hall, which set the lawyers in an uproar; then she went to the city making her complaint to the linen-draper and apothecary, grocer and hosier, baker and butcher, vintner and ale-draper, pawn-broker and tally-man, usurer and miser, but found no relief. Then she went to the Exbhange amongst the merchants, but they sent her to the priests, & said it was enough for them to teach; therefore they had no relief for her; so poor honesty being fighted by all, died a miserable death for want of relief,

All titles

• Honesty in distress, but reliev'd by no party. Giving an account how she went to court but was scorn'd & slighted; next she went to Westminster-hall, which set the lawyers in an uproar; then she went to the city making her complaint to the linen-draper and apothecary, grocer and hosier, baker and butcher, vintner and ale-draper, pawn-broker and tally-man, usurer and miser, but found no relief. Then she went to the Exbhange amongst the merchants, but they sent her to the priests, & said it was enough for them to teach; therefore they had no relief for her; so poor honesty being fighted by all, died a miserable death for want of relief,
• Honesty in distress. Adaptations

People / Organizations

• Edward Ward (Author)

Imprint

London?] : Printed and sold in Grub-street, [1710?

Publication year

1710

ESTC No.

T196600

Grub Street ID

229966

Description

12p. ; 12°.

Note

A prose adaptation of the work by Edward Ward.

Uncontrolled note

May be provincial printing. Verify hyphen in "Grub-street"