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The Patriot. Numb. XCV. (-- XCVI.) From Thursday November 11. to Saturday November 13. 1714. (From Saturday November 13. to Tuesday November 16. 1714. Remarks on the White Staff, the Mitre and the Purse.)
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THE PATRIOT
The Patriot. Numb. XCV. (-- XCVI.) From Thursday November 11. to Saturday November 13. 1714. (From Saturday November 13. to Tuesday November 16. 1714. Remarks on the White Staff, the Mitre and the Purse.)
London (Place), printed for J. Roberts,, [1714].
2 fold. half-sheets ; 28.8 cm. x 18.0 cm.
Imprint from colophon; year of publication from dates of coverage. Drop-head title preceded by issue number. Texts are unsigned. The Patriot, a Whig journal in support of the Protestant succession to Queen Anne, was published from Numb. I. (Monday March 22. 1714) - Numb. CXXV. (Thursday January 20. to Saturday January 22. 1715) and ceased when the succession was assured. Each number is a single half-sheet with price within brackets at foot of recto 'Price Two Pence.'. Number XCVI has additional drop-head title in which 'the White Staff' is Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, who had just resigned the white staff of his office of Lord Treasurer; 'the Mitre' is Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester; 'the Purse' is Simon Harcourt, Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor.
Copy Notes Two issues only, folded and bound in after part 1 of The history of the White-Staff, 1714 (q.v.), Daniel Defoe's controversial apology for his erstwhile patron, the Earl of Oxford, and preceding parts 2 and 3 of the same work and ten other short publications on the same and other subjects. Part of a uniformly bound 48-volume set of works by or attributed to Defoe which on the evidence of endleaves variously watermarked '1814', '1808', etc. was presumably assembled around 1810--15.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine direct-lettered in gilt 'Defoe's Works' and 'Hist. Of The White Staff Mitre & Purse'.
Reference Number 802
Additional Names Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724); Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester (1662--1732); Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724); Harcourt, Simon Harcourt, Viscount (1661?--1727)
The Patriot. Numb. XCV. (-- XCVI.) From Thursday November 11. to Saturday November 13. 1714. (From Saturday November 13. to Tuesday November 16. 1714. Remarks on the White Staff, the Mitre and the Purse.)
London (Place), printed for J. Roberts,, [1714].
2 fold. half-sheets ; 28.8 cm. x 18.0 cm.
Imprint from colophon; year of publication from dates of coverage. Drop-head title preceded by issue number. Texts are unsigned. The Patriot, a Whig journal in support of the Protestant succession to Queen Anne, was published from Numb. I. (Monday March 22. 1714) - Numb. CXXV. (Thursday January 20. to Saturday January 22. 1715) and ceased when the succession was assured. Each number is a single half-sheet with price within brackets at foot of recto 'Price Two Pence.'. Number XCVI has additional drop-head title in which 'the White Staff' is Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, who had just resigned the white staff of his office of Lord Treasurer; 'the Mitre' is Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester; 'the Purse' is Simon Harcourt, Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor.
Copy Notes Two issues only, folded and bound in after part 1 of The history of the White-Staff, 1714 (q.v.), Daniel Defoe's controversial apology for his erstwhile patron, the Earl of Oxford, and preceding parts 2 and 3 of the same work and ten other short publications on the same and other subjects. Part of a uniformly bound 48-volume set of works by or attributed to Defoe which on the evidence of endleaves variously watermarked '1814', '1808', etc. was presumably assembled around 1810--15.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine direct-lettered in gilt 'Defoe's Works' and 'Hist. Of The White Staff Mitre & Purse'.
Reference Number 802
Additional Names Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724); Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester (1662--1732); Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724); Harcourt, Simon Harcourt, Viscount (1661?--1727)