Lot 26
Murder.- Great and Bloody News. From Turnham-Green, or a Relation of a sharp Encounter, 4pp., only edition, 1680.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Murder.- Great and Bloody News. From Turnham-Green, or a Relation of a sharp Encounter between the Earl of Pembroke, and his Company, with the Constable and Watch belonging to the parish of Chiswick..., 4pp., only edition, drop-head title, lightly soiled, small splits to central fold, [Wing G1647], folio, printed by D.M., 1680.
⁂ Rare account of a high-profile and infamous incident in which the Earl of Pembroke killed an innocent bystander, "Mr. Smeethe", with a thrust of his rapier while in a drunken rage. Pembroke was temporarily held at the Cock and Half Moon tavern, but was later released. Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke (1652/3-83), was known to be subject to fits of homicidal mania and was guilty of several assaults, being convicted of the manslaughter of Philip Rycault the following year. He was eventually pardoned for the Smeethe murder and died at an early age in 1683.
ESTC cites only 5 UK copies in 3 locations (BL, Magdalen College Cambridge, & Bodleian Oxford), and another 4 in America.
Description
Murder.- Great and Bloody News. From Turnham-Green, or a Relation of a sharp Encounter between the Earl of Pembroke, and his Company, with the Constable and Watch belonging to the parish of Chiswick..., 4pp., only edition, drop-head title, lightly soiled, small splits to central fold, [Wing G1647], folio, printed by D.M., 1680.
⁂ Rare account of a high-profile and infamous incident in which the Earl of Pembroke killed an innocent bystander, "Mr. Smeethe", with a thrust of his rapier while in a drunken rage. Pembroke was temporarily held at the Cock and Half Moon tavern, but was later released. Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke (1652/3-83), was known to be subject to fits of homicidal mania and was guilty of several assaults, being convicted of the manslaughter of Philip Rycault the following year. He was eventually pardoned for the Smeethe murder and died at an early age in 1683.
ESTC cites only 5 UK copies in 3 locations (BL, Magdalen College Cambridge, & Bodleian Oxford), and another 4 in America.
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