CORNWALL


The Mystery of Ambras Merlins, Standardbearer Wolf, and Last Boar of Cornwal. With Sundry Other Misterious Prophecys... Portent of that Prodigious Comet... Written by a Lover of his Country Peace, Anno Domini, 1683, 4 pages, woodcut illustration of "Flagg figured with a White Wolf", modern quarter calf [ESTC R10135], folio (310 x 185mm.), Benj. Billingsley, 1683--The Declaration of Our Soveraigne Lord the King... Concerning the Title of His... Dearest Sonne Charles... to the Duchy of Cornewall, parallel Law French and English texts, woodcut ornament at head of titles, lacking errata leaf and final blank, bound with an incomplete work by Edward Coke, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S122625], folio (280 x 190mm.), Robert Barker, 1613 (2)
|The Mystery is a prophetical pamphlet, published after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1682, and the light of "the danger of an invation [sic] in England by the Turks", in which it is foreseen the Turks on landing in the West country shall be met by the "Boar of Cornwal" which shall "fight, defeat and sink him [the Turk's Standardbearer Wolf] in the deep of the Severn sea".