An Apology For The Conduct Of A Late Celebrated Second Rate Minister From The Year 1729 At Which Time

by Fieldingiana

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First edition

First edition. ii, 3-50 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed, some slight staining. Cross III, pp. 344-5; Battestin p. 427; ESTC T22229. Item #262774 The author of the Jacobite’s Journal was Henry Fielding, but he did not write this pamphlet which is an outrageous attack on the administration of Robert Walpole, in the guise of a manuscript left at his death by Thomas Winnington, prominent Whig.

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