The london-Citizen exceedingly injured: or a British inquisition display'd, in an account of the unparallel'd case of a citizen of London, bookseller to the late Queen, who was in a most unjust and arbitrary Manner sent on the 23d of March last, 1738, by one Robert Wightman, a mere Stranger, to a private madhouse Containing, I. An Account of the said Citizen's barbarous Treatment in Wright's Private Madhouse on Bethnal-Green for nine Weeks and six Days, and of his rational and patient Behaviour, whilst Chained, Handcuffed, Strait-Wastecoated and Imprisoned in the said Madhouse: Where he probably would have been continued, or died under his Confinement, if he had not most Providentially made his Escape: In which he was taken up by the Constable and Watchmen, being suspected to be a Felon, but was unchain'd and set at liberty by Sir John Barnard the then Lord Mayor. II. As also an Account of the illegal Steps, false Calumnies, wicked Contrivances, bold and desperate Designs of the said W

People / Organizations

• Alexander Cruden (Author)
• Anne Dodd I ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, and Mrs. Dodd at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, 1739.

Publication year

1739-1739

ESTC No.

T41135

Grub Street ID

270096

Description

[4],60p. ; 8⁰

Note

Anonymous. By Alexander Cruden.