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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: This part of the tract is very curious with reference to the then condition of some of the most populous and disreputable parts of the metropolis. Price, Laurence. -- A new Disputation Betweene the two Lordly Bishops, Yorke and Canterbury. With a Discourse of many passages which have hapned since they were committed to the Tower of London, Being very necessary for observation, and well worth the Reading. The fifth Edition, corrected and enlarged. Written in English Prose by Laurence Price, February the 15. 1642. The simple sort live most at rest, Whil'st Lordly Bishops are distrest. London Printed by E. P. for J. Wright. 1642. 8vo. 7 leaves. Whether there be any truth in the statement that this is the fifth edition of the tract, and that it had been corrected and enlarged, is very doubtful, and no other copy is known with which a comparison may be made. Laurence Price, who professes, with some singularity, to have written it in English prose, was a very prolific writer of ballads and ephemeral tracts like the present. He specifies that the one before us is in English prose, perhaps, for the novelty's sake, but still he could not refrain from adding a humorous song at the end, which a poore Musitioner sings to the tune of Banks his bill of Fare alluding probably to some well-known air regarding Banks and the performances of his horse Maroceus. The prose portion consists of an angry recriminatory dialogue between the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, while they were both confined in the Tower, and it contains some points of interest: thus it mentions the execution of two Ro...

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