The solemn mock-procession or the tryal and execution of the Pope and his ministers, on the 17. of Nov. at Temple-Bar ... London, Printed for Nath. Ponder, Langley Curtis, Jonathan Wilkins, and Samuel Lee, MDCLXXX, [19th century].

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The solemn mock-procession or the tryal and execution of the Pope and his ministers, on the 17. of Nov. at Temple-Bar ... London, Printed for Nath. Ponder, Langley Curtis, Jonathan Wilkins, and Samuel Lee, MDCLXXX, [19th century].

The solemn mock-procession or the tryal and execution of the Pope and his ministers, on the 17. of Nov. at Temple-Bar ... London, Printed for Nath. Ponder, Langley Curtis, Jonathan Wilkins, and Samuel Lee, MDCLXXX, [19th century].

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Manuscript copy from a printed pamphlet of 1680, describing an anti-Catholic satirical procession and mock trial on November 17, 1679, the anniversary of the death of Mary I and succession of Elizabeth I. The pope's guard and a corpse representing Justice Edmund Godfrey carried by a Jesuit with a bloody dagger precede a series of nine floats, with Protestant sympathizers, Fransiscan, Augustinian, Dominican, and Jesuit friars, bishops, archbishops, patriarchs, cardinals, the Pope with Emperor Frederick beneath his foot, nuns described as "curtezans in ordinary" and inquisitors. The procession led from White-Chapel Bars through Bishopsgate, Cornhill, Cheapside, and Ludgate, to Temple Bar, where a mock trial was held before a throne of Elizabeth I where the actors and effigies were surrounded by flares and artificial fires. The procession sought to satirize the "superstitious exorbitancies of the Romish religion," in order to "renew a Holy Indignation in all true protestant breasts" and "to undeceive the rational, or even the weaker sort of Papists and the favourers thereof."

1 v. (7 p.) ; 33 x 23 cm.

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