Gatford (Lionel) Englands Complaint: or, a sharp Reproof...against that now raigning Sin of Rebellion. But more especially to the Inhabitants of the County of Suffolk. With a Vindication of those Worthyes now in Colchester, first edition, light foxing at beginning and end, ex-library copy with old ink stamp to verso of title, bookplate of William Minet, later half speckled calf, spine chipped at head, [Wing G.332], 4to, 1648.

⁂ The Rev. Lionel Gatford (d. 1665) was, from 1641, "the true, but sequestred Rector of Dinnington" [i.e. Dennington] in Suffolk. A committed Royalist, he suffered various terms of imprisonment (1643-1649) as a consequence of his publication of royalist pamphlets. "In Englands Complaint (1648), Gatford urged those who had been seduced by 'the Devil and Devilish men' to repent of rebellion. This pamphlet argued that the Jesuits were behind the attacks on the Church of England and warned that the execution of the king would lead to the shedding of the blood of more protestants than had 'been shed since the Reformation'." (ODNB).