Getting the runaround? The 1689 investigation of a clandestine pamphlet in Brussels
(2025) Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade — Location: Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp (2025.November.5AD)
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- The Williamite Revolution of 1688-1692 posed a public image dilemma for the authorities in the Southern Netherlands. For over a century they had been presenting themselves as the bulwark of Catholicism in Northern Europe, but in order to weaken France they were also backing the Protestant hero William of Orange against the Catholic James II of Great Britain. In April 1689, three holders of high office in the administration of Brabant were engaged in a fruitless investigation into the source of a booklet entitled 'Remonstrance et protestation des bons protestants anglois', no copies of which are known to survive (a translation of the early Jacobite pamphlet 'Remonstrance and protestation of all the good Protestants of this Kingdom'). The files have been studied for what light they shed on the printing profession in Brussels, but without addressing one crucial aspect of the case, namely the runaround given the investigators by three women not officially affiliated to the trade: Margriete Michiels (wife of the absentee bookseller Judocus De Grieck); her maid Cornelia vanden Dorp; and the pedlar Margriet L’Espine.
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Arblaster, P. (2025). Getting the runaround? The 1689 investigation of a clandestine pamphlet in Brussels. Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/269841