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Excommunication proclamation and occult arithmetic satire in 1703 and 1769 inserts
A Middlesex Journal excerpt recounts a Westminster excommunication against alleged breakers of church liberties and liberties charters with medieval pomp. The page includes a mock notice on occult supplemental arithmetic by Signor della Arithmetica Ocul ta, plus letters denouncing political figures and defending legal rights, dated 1769.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Henry
Grace of God
England
Richard Earl of
Cornwal
Roger Bigot
Norfolk
Suffolk
Marshal of
Humfrey Earl of Hereford
Henry Earl of
Oxford
John Earl Warren
William Boniface
God
Canterbury
London
H. of
Ely
S. of
Worcester
W. of
Lincoln
Norwich
Hereford
Salisbury
Durham
Exeter
Carlisle
Bath
Rochester
St. David’s
Common Liberties of
Forest
Mother of God
Peter and Paul
Edward
Euclid
Isac Newton
Signor Boote del Mont Peti Contana
Temple B
M -x
L. L
Shagit
N. B
Ll Siguor Della
Temple- Bar
Hyde-Park
Newmarket