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Secret Service.- Smyth (Matthew) A Reply To an Unjust, and Scandalous Libel, 1700.

Secret Service.- Smyth (Matthew) A Reply To an Unjust, and Scandalous Libel, 38pp., small hole to title, some tears to A2, corner of E2, retaining rear endpaper, Remarks upon the D-- of S-----'s Letter to the House of Lords, Concerning Capt. Smyth, i-xvi, 1-31pp., small hole to D3, both with pages toned, retaining some remnants of binding to spine, speckled edges, 1700, 8vo (2). ⁂ Smyth (1665-1723), a spy and writer, employed as a spy against the Jacobites, turned on his spymasters with Memoirs of a Secret Service (1699), and these inflammatory pamphlets.