Ascham, Anthony, bap 1614-1650 (diplomat and pamphleteer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: bap 1614 - 1650
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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Description of Rome and the Jesuits, etc.; scraps of poetry; Treatise on marriage, mid seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.01.04
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A description of the cittie of Rome, etc. And of the Jesuitts. Per P. Tomkinson’, in two parts, ‘Of the description of the cittie of Rome’, beginning ‘Rome in times past a cittie to all men known ...’, and ‘Relations in generall of the Jesuites’, beginning ‘Amongst all sorts of religious and superstitious men ...’; these are followed by ‘A copy of the Lord Lieutenants speech to his majestie when he was created earl of Strafford’, ‘Verses by the earle of Strafford before he suffered’,...
Dates:
mid seventeenth century
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