1675 POPE JOAN & HER BASTARD CHILD. Rare, Red-Hot 17th Century Anti-Catholic Puritan Polemic. Revival by William Jay

by William Jay

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1675 POPE JOAN & HER BASTARD CHILD. Rare, Red-Hot 17th Century Anti-Catholic Puritan Polemic. Revival by William JayVery rare imprint of the early Puritan, Alexander Cooke's blistering polemic against the Roman Catholic church via its hypocrisy in covering up their accidental selection of a female pope and then of her surprise delivery of an illegitimate child while in public procession. The Pope Joan history is ostensibly the reason for the creation of the infamous "Pope's Jewels" chair in the Vatican where one unlucky Cardinal was assigned to verify that the Pope