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printed , and sent in England , and an answere to all those lerned Papists who , having unitie , universalitie , & c . with they of no religioheretically aske , that is to say , how know you the Holy Scriptures to be the word of G-od ? And likewise answere to this comon
conclusion of the lerned Papists , that is to say , out of the Church of Grod there is no salvation . " A rude wood-cut is then displayed of a man blowing a trumpet , on which there is a flag bearing this inscription ; " If one trumpet this yeere will not make you learned Papists to answere , the next year look for two trumpets . " Turning over this leaf , we see another wood-cut of several jovial monks , while their head , with triple crown , sits very comfortably on a four-legged table , grinning from ear to ear .
Ivor was war waged alone against the Roman Church , for we have published in 1677 , Countermine , or a short but true Discovery of the dangerous Principles and secret Practices of the Dissenting Party , especially the Presbytericms ; and A Snake in the Grass , or Satan transformed into an Angel of Light , discovering the Subtilty which is couched under the pretended Simplicity of the Quakers , 1700 .
In the year 1709 was published a political pamphlet , entitled XOIPOXPOTPA < HA : sive IIoglandicB Descriptio . Plaudite Porcelli Par cor urn pigra propago . Eleg . port . Londini . And the year before , The Phenix , or a Revival of scarce and valuable Pieces no where to be found but in the Closets of the Curious . In the preface of the second volume of the Phenix there is a request to all gentlemen who have
scarce or valuable pieces , " that they would be pleased to impart ' em for the benefit of the publick , or give the undertakers notice by a line to Fellow ' s Coffee House , in Aldersgate-street , where they may be waited upon . " Aldersgate-street is , as our readers maybe aware , famous ; for it was hither Milton removed when he left St . Bride ' s churchyard , and here wandered the scholars of that great
pqet . Formerly Aldersgate was written Aldred ' s-gate , and thus it appears once in Stow . The street may have been named after the ambitious prelate , Bishop Aldred , who died in 1069 , but this is merely a conjecture , for it may have been the ealdor , or older-gate . It would be interesting to know , could any one obtain the information , to how many coffee-houses we owe the publication of old and rare imprints , and we might then judge how far they aided the advancement of literature . " Nando ' s , Dick ' s , and the Hainbow , "
says Mr . J . Smith , in his delightful " Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London , " " were at one time the resort of essayists ; but these are not to be compared with Robinson ' s Coffee-house , the Old Man ' s Coffee-house , the Young Man ' s Coffee-house , the British Coffee-house , Locket ' s Ordinary , and other houses , which , in the eighteenth century , abounded in Charing-cross , and were
frequented by such men as the witty and licentious Buckingham , and the poets , Prior and Ben Jonson . Surely we may bless the day when a Turkish merchant brought to London as his servant one Pasqua , a Greek , who opened , about the year 1652 , the first coffee-house , in George-yard , Lombard-street . We cannot help
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printed , and sent in England , and an answere to all those lerned Papists who , having unitie , universalitie , & c . with they of no religioheretically aske , that is to say , how know you the Holy Scriptures to be the word of G-od ? And likewise answere to this comon
conclusion of the lerned Papists , that is to say , out of the Church of Grod there is no salvation . " A rude wood-cut is then displayed of a man blowing a trumpet , on which there is a flag bearing this inscription ; " If one trumpet this yeere will not make you learned Papists to answere , the next year look for two trumpets . " Turning over this leaf , we see another wood-cut of several jovial monks , while their head , with triple crown , sits very comfortably on a four-legged table , grinning from ear to ear .
Ivor was war waged alone against the Roman Church , for we have published in 1677 , Countermine , or a short but true Discovery of the dangerous Principles and secret Practices of the Dissenting Party , especially the Presbytericms ; and A Snake in the Grass , or Satan transformed into an Angel of Light , discovering the Subtilty which is couched under the pretended Simplicity of the Quakers , 1700 .
In the year 1709 was published a political pamphlet , entitled XOIPOXPOTPA < HA : sive IIoglandicB Descriptio . Plaudite Porcelli Par cor urn pigra propago . Eleg . port . Londini . And the year before , The Phenix , or a Revival of scarce and valuable Pieces no where to be found but in the Closets of the Curious . In the preface of the second volume of the Phenix there is a request to all gentlemen who have
scarce or valuable pieces , " that they would be pleased to impart ' em for the benefit of the publick , or give the undertakers notice by a line to Fellow ' s Coffee House , in Aldersgate-street , where they may be waited upon . " Aldersgate-street is , as our readers maybe aware , famous ; for it was hither Milton removed when he left St . Bride ' s churchyard , and here wandered the scholars of that great
pqet . Formerly Aldersgate was written Aldred ' s-gate , and thus it appears once in Stow . The street may have been named after the ambitious prelate , Bishop Aldred , who died in 1069 , but this is merely a conjecture , for it may have been the ealdor , or older-gate . It would be interesting to know , could any one obtain the information , to how many coffee-houses we owe the publication of old and rare imprints , and we might then judge how far they aided the advancement of literature . " Nando ' s , Dick ' s , and the Hainbow , "
says Mr . J . Smith , in his delightful " Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London , " " were at one time the resort of essayists ; but these are not to be compared with Robinson ' s Coffee-house , the Old Man ' s Coffee-house , the Young Man ' s Coffee-house , the British Coffee-house , Locket ' s Ordinary , and other houses , which , in the eighteenth century , abounded in Charing-cross , and were
frequented by such men as the witty and licentious Buckingham , and the poets , Prior and Ben Jonson . Surely we may bless the day when a Turkish merchant brought to London as his servant one Pasqua , a Greek , who opened , about the year 1652 , the first coffee-house , in George-yard , Lombard-street . We cannot help