Samuel Gorton. Simplicity's Defence against Seven-Headed Policy, 1647 reprint

Gorton, Samuel. Simplicity's Defence against Seven-Headed Policy: with Notes Explanatory of the Text, and Appendices containing original documents referred to in the work; Collections of the Rhode-Island Historical Society, Volume II. Providence: Marshall, Brown and Company, 1835. [11109] Faded cloth, 9 x 6 inches, top of backstrip relaid, backstrip chipped at center with loss, private bookplate of S. A. Briggs, his signature on the series title page, blue ink public library stamp on the ffep. 278 pages. Good. Hardcover. Published in London, 1647, the original title page reads: Simplicities Defence against Seven-Headed Policy. Or, A True Complaint of a Peaceable People, being part of the English in New-England, Made unto the State of Old England, against Cruell Persecutors, United in Church-Government in those parts. Wherein is made manifest the maniford outrages, cruelties, oppressions, and taxations, by cruell and close imprisonments, fire and sword, deprivation of goods, lands, and