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(IRELAND.) Smith, Philip. A Most Honourable and Worthy Speech made in the House of Commons in Parliament on Wednesday Decemb. 29, 1641. . . Concerning the Miserable and Distressed Estate of the Protestants of Ireland. Which if not speedily relieved . . . they will utterly be destroyed. [4] leaves. 4to, 182x132 mm, modern 1/4 morocco; contents clean, with A2.3 trimmed in blank lower margins. London: John Thomas, 1641
Delivered just over 2 months after the outbreak of the 1641 Catholic rebellion in Ireland, Smith's speech stressed the urgent situation of English Protestants there and called for measures to prevent the disruption of parliamentary proceedings by "Papists and Recusants." Wing S4144.
