Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey: two broadsheets

Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey

Two broadsheets: ‘The proclamation promoted or an hue-and-cry and inquisition after treason and blood’ and ‘An Elegie’ dedicated to Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey, [English Broadside Ballad Archive 36355; 32946], the first item with some loss along centre, contemporary ink annotations, both trimmed with some loss to annotation of first item and decorative border of second, some spotting, laid down, 40 x 30 cm, for J. L. at the Blew-Bell in Fleet-Street; for L. C., 1678 (2)

***Both items concern the English magistrate Edmund Berry Godfrey, whose mysterious murder was used to contribute to the anti-Catholic rhetoric known as the Popish-Plot.

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