Janus: Truth Displayed or the Tables Turned

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.4022	William Sherwin: 'Some remarks upon Bishop (Gilbert) Burnet's History of His Own Times'
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MS Add.4025	Thomas Gilbert: An Argument against the Validitie of clandestine Marriages in the Sight of God
MS Add.4026	Walter of Henley: 'Hosebondrie'
MS Add.41	Miscellaneous collection of documents chiefly relating to the Cathedral and Diocese of Ely, and to the University of Cambridge
MS Add.4129	Acts regarding Merchants of the Staple.
MS Add.4130	Juan Perez de la Medinilla: Ejecutoria de Hidalguia
MS Add.4131	Camillo Guidarello: Grant of Degree
MS Add.4132	A Book of Christian Prayers
MS Add.4133	Doge Pasquale Cicogna: Ducale
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Truth Displayed or the Tables Turned

Title	Truth Displayed or the Tables Turned
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4514
Covering Dates	1720–1910 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

'Truth Displayd or the Tables turned by a Welwisher to the Mathematicks and a Lover of old England Anno Libertatis Angliae 0000', c. 1720, 10 folios. Attached at the beginning is a memorandum on the manuscript by T.G. Crippen, which includes the following: 'This MS. is a venomous attack on the contemporary Chancellor of the Exechequer, Aislabie soon after the South Sea Bubble. It charges him with enriching himself at the public expense. Whether or not it is a transcript from a printed tract I do not know'. At the front there is also a letter from Charles Higham & Son, booksellers, to Francis Jenkinson, 6 December 1910.

Purchased 1910.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Truth Displayed or the Tables Turned, MS Add.4514

Index Terms

Aislabie, John (1670-1742) politician

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