Reference code
DWL/RB/vii.232
Other numbers
former reference:Treatises, vii. 37
Level of description
item
Title
Baxter’s antidote against liars (ie Roger L’Estrange)
Date
27 October 1681
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 96-97
Dimensions:293 x 187 mm
Genre/Physical Characteristic:Wm: Fleur de lys in a crowned shield.
Creator
Scope and content
Paper on the suggestion, made by Roger L’Estrange in The Observator, 65 (26 October 1681), that Baxter, following a civil war engagement in Shropshire had removed from a wounded Royalist officer, Thomas Jennings, a medal given to him by King Charles I.
Finding aids
Argent / Black vii.232 (also listed as vii.37); Thomas p.8
Publication note
- For L’Estrange’s traducing of Baxter in newspapers and tracts see N Keeble The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth Century England (Leicester 1987) esp ch III.
- See Corr 1107, 1110, 1111, 1113, 1148 and 1174.
- For Sir L'Estrange (1616-1704) generally see, the Tory journalist and polemicist, see Corr 873, 895, 1028, 1047, 1058, 1107, 1110, 1111, 1113, 1148, 1174, McElligott and ODNB.
Personal name