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Edited by Ivan Earle Taylor. Diss. Philadelphia 1946. XXIV, (16), 53, 55 pages. Softcover. Stamped.*Facsimile of the Oxford 1666 edition.[#72986].

1 vols. Sm 4to. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. Sm 4to. This is Killigrew's proposal for allaying the national debt by a system of bonds and paper specie. He had presented a similar proposal in the early reign of William and Mary, and apparently revives it here with additions and answers to some of his critics. Kress and the DNB give 1663 as the date of publication but he makes references to "the reign of Charles II" and in the "Clause" the notation "To carry on the War the year 97" appears. Killigrew died in October 1695. Following this pamphlet is a single leaf entitled "To the Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled, The Humble Petition of Percivall Brunskell, Gent." Kress 1111 giving the date of 1663 as does the DNB; Wing K.466 giving the date of 1696 Disbound, chipping and losses from removed stitching, margins closely trimmed and cropped with text loss, on the first eight pages the loss is generally a letter or part of a word so that the content is understandable, thereafter a line of text is missing on each page as well as the letters or parts of words trimmed from the margins, these losses do not seem to greatly affect comprehension of Killigrew's plan, two overlay slips to correct text on page [4] and another on page [8], some soiling.

Manuscript in ink, one page (190 x 146mm), 11 lines, with short endorsement on verso by Sidney; slightly waterstained and dusty, but generally fine. A splendid little manuscript, uniting the royalist and playwright Sir William Killigrew (1606-95) with the republican martyr Algernon Sidney: Killigrew acknowledges having received 'the summe of ten pounds Lawfull Englishe monny from Collonell Algernoon Sydnye', which was due to him from Philip Viscount Strangford (b. 1634) Strangford and Sidney were first cousins. Sidney and Killigrew were on opposite sides in the civil war: Sidney fought for Parliament at Marston Moor, and Killigrew for the King at Edgehill. Sidney was later to suffer death for his part in the Rye House Plot, and his posthumous Discourses were to become a sacred text of whigs in the following century; Killigrew, by contrast, enjoyed prosperity and favour at the Restoration, having the ear of the King on financial matters and writing a number of plays which were performed in London shortly after the theatres were re-opened. The verso is endorsed by Sidney himself: 'Sr Will: Killigrew his acquittance for Mich: 1656'.