ROYSE, George

A Sermon preached before King William III. At Belfast, in Ireland, on the 14th Day of June, 1690, by George Royse, D.D., Fellow of the Oriel College in Oxon, and Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties [cover title]

Sydney, Samuel E. Lees, Printer, Lees Court, off King Street, [possibly early 1890s?].

Octavo (222 x 158 mm), 8 pages with advertisements on the last page.

Title-wrappers; heavy crease across the centre of the pamphlet, with lighter creases elsewhere, and a few trifling chips and creases to the leading edges; paper uniformly tanned; a very good copy.

'The following Sermon, now printed in Pamphlet form, is an exact reprint of the work published in London in 1691. The document has become very rare.... The date, the 14th, is clearly a misprint, as the King arrived in Belfast on that day (Saturday), and the Sermon was preached on the day following, the 15th of June' (head of the second page). Not in Trove (which does record digital versions of the 1691 edition). One of the advertisements on the last page of this item is for 'The Protestant Standard', which was published in Sydney between 1869 and 1895. The acidic nature of the paper suggests this pamphlet appeared later in that time-span.

Item #106242

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