Cambridge drunkenness.- A Sermon on Malt, attractively printed handbill, text within wide woodcut typographic border, lightly browned, laid down on paper, 216 x 136mm., no place, no printer, [c.1840].
⁂ Rare. John Dod (1549-1645), puritan divine, who at Cambridge vehemently preached against the drinking indulged in by students, thereby greatly angering them. One day a group of them met Dod passing through a wood, seized him, and placed him in a hollow tree, declaring that he would not be released until he had preached a sermon on a theme of their choosing. They gave him the topic of ‘malt’, and we see the result here.
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