Author: [CATHOLICS].
Title: Tom-Tell-Troth, or a Free Discourse Touching the Murmurs of the Times, Directed to His Majesty, by of Humble Advertisement.
Description: London [no printer or publisher], 1642. 4to, 218 x 157 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 28, later (probably 20th century) buckram; a very good copy in a utilitarian binding. Written in 1622, this tract laments the presence and influence of Roman Catholics at the King James's court and his failure to intervene in the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648). The anonymous author is alarmed at those who fail to report attempts to subvert the state. The original manuscript is in the Bodleian Library, and this 1642 imprint is addressed to Charles I. "Tom-Tell-Troth" was a frequently-used locution in various forms and guises. Another title published in 1642 was The Honest Informer or Tom-Tell-Troth's Observations upon Abuses of Government Directed to his Maisty by way of an humble Advertisement, wherein it may easily appeare that amongst other things, the chiefest cause of these Civil Combustions now at home, proceed from the neglect of making Just Warre abroad. A quick on the text of both suggests that they are pretty much identical.

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