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Full page of American news... The notorious Elizabeth Brownrigg...
Full page of American news... The notorious Elizabeth Brownrigg...
Item # 714489 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, London, September, 1767 The first article is: "An Authentick Narrative of the Many Horrid Cruelties inflicted by Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg upon her Poor Apprentice Girls" which is a four page article. There is an accompanying full plate plate showing the tortuous treatment of her servants (shown last for discretion). Brownrigg was quite the notorious person, about whom much can be found on the internet.
Among other articles are: "A Description of a Deer of the Cape of Good Hope" with a related foldout plate; "An Assay for Finding the Longitude" "A Geographical Observation" "Some Account of Leonardo Donato, the Venetian" and more.
There is a full page of: "American News" which includes reports from Charleston, New Providence, Elizabethtown, N.J., and Boston. One item includes: "...What must other colonies think of you when they know how you tax the subject merely for your own benefit & advantage...Such grievances called aloud for redress..." with more.
The Charleston article notes in part: "...Different gangs of robbers & horsestealers have lately infested the forks of Saludy and Savannah rivers & committed many robberies & cruelties...went to the house of one Wilson, burnt him with red hot irons to discover his money, and there robbed him of all he had...From Denis Hayes they...brutally & lustfully used his wife & daughter, stripped them and left them naked...".
Near the back is the "Historical Chronicle" which includes a small mention of troops remaining in America.
Two plates are present.
Complete in 48 pages 5 by 8 1/4 inches, full title/contents page with an engraving of St. John's Gate, nice condition.
A very nice pre-Revolutionary War magazine from the "mother country" with a wide range of varied content. This was the first periodical to use the word "magazine" in its title, having begun in 1731 and lasting until 1907.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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