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Letter From a Mad-House Clergyman in 1761
A clergyman confined in a private madhouse writes caustically on sanity and society, recounting harsh treatment and odd anecdotes. The piece includes musings on liberty amid confinement, a specimen letter to a newspaper, and a poem about royal marriage, with notices of royal and military topics and maritime tidings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rist
Rascal
Conquea
Britannia
Daily Register of Commerce and Intelligence
OSI Renoss
London
Sadler’s Wells Westmanland
Granier
Tarr
Belling
Mathews
Sturges
Wrangel
C. Lasshee
Heffinteins
Plater
Malchin
Lilly
Belfing
Kentzlin