[England & Wales.] Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons...for the speedie Demolishing of all Organs, Images, and all manner of Superstitious Monuments in all Cathedrall, Parish-Churches and Chappels..., 8pp., first edition, title with typographical border, woodcut initials and head-piece, printed partly in black letter, browned, trimmed, 19th century red straight-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, by Palmer & Howe of Manchester, a little rubbed, [Wing E2408A], for John Wright, 1645 § [Wake (William)] the Missionarie's Arts Discovered; or, an Account of their Ways of Insinuation, their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Converts, first edition, with initial imprimatur/errata leaf, first and last few leaves stained at inner margin and mounted on stubs, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [Wing W.246A], by Randal Taylor, 1688; and another, small 4to (3)

⁂ The draconian Ordinances of the first item were inspired by the enthusiastic Puritan elements in Parliament who regarded organs, images etc. as Satanic symbols of Roman Catholicism. They were licences to wreak havoc in English parish churches and, as a consequence, organs, stone altars, "tapers, candlesticks and basons", crucifixes and crosses, "images and pictures of any one or more persons of the Trinity, as of the Virgin Mary, and all other images and pictures of saints", were all to be defaced or removed. ESTC lists 3 UK copies only of this printing (BL, Bodleian and Corpus Christi College, Oxford) and 3 of that with Edward Husband in the imprint.

The second is an anti-Jesuit essay particularly directed against Andrew Pulton or Poulton (1654-1710), the joint-master of the new Jesuit college established in the Savoy in London in 1687, and the methods used by the Jesuits to gain converts to the Roman church.