[Judge Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes.] Printed pamphlet: 'A Pindarick Congratulatory Poem To the Right Honourable George, Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wem, and Lord High Chancellor of England To the High and Mighty Monarch King James the II. &c.'

7pp, folio. On four leaves. In good condition, lightly aged. In worn modern half-binding of brown leather spine and corners and cloth covers, split at hinge. The poem is of 124 lines, arranged in five irregular stanzas. A nauseating exercise in brazen sycophancy, written in the aftermath of the Bloody Assizes. Not mentioned in Barnes's entry in the Oxford DNB, which does state that his 'adulation for the Stuarts [...] probably continued undiminished' with the accession of William and Mary. Barnes characterises 'JAMES the Just [...] of whom with Pride Apollo sings' as 'The best of Friends, of Brothers, and of Kings', for whom the goddess Astraea will wield 'a Whig-confounding Sword' against 'Black Rebells in the worst degree'. 'Wise JAMES' is 'Jeffrey's Friend': ''cause He's Just and knew | That Thou, Great Jeffreys, was so too, | He judg'd thee Worthy of a Monarch's Love'. Jeffreys is the 'Deliverer', and his 'honour'd Name' is praised by 'all the Land', which has seen his 'wisely-pruning Hand | Lop off those Suckers of the Western Land, | That once design'd to draw away | The Vital Sap of Britain's Royal Tree'. The poem concludes in the conviction that 'an adored Oak of Trophies' will 'last: | Till Jeffreys's Fame's asleep, and Time it self be past.' ESTC R5386, Wing B872. Four copies on Jisc LHD (COPAC): British Library, Lambeth Palace, National Trust and Oxford.