The History of the Three Late Famous Impostors
Anonymous (attributed to John Evelyn)
Anonymous London history of 1669, attributed to John Evelyn, of three pretenders including Sabatai Sevi; its Sabatai narrative is the one Paul Rycaut reprinted in 1680.
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Edition and location
[John Evelyn], The History of the Three Late Famous Impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatai Sevi (London: Henry Herringman, 1669), “Sabatai Sevi”, p. 46 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-history-of-the-three_evelyn-john_1669, leaf n61). Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A38790). Long s (ſ) rendered s; TCP line-end hyphenation markers joined; page breaks joined; marginal notes and running heads omitted; roman and italic type not distinguished; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as keyed; omissions marked […]. Checked against the page image; the keyed I for italic J (Iewes, Iune) is retained as keyed. The Sabatai Sevi narrative in this book is the account Paul Rycaut later printed in his History of the Turkish Empire (1680), where he calls it “an issue of my Pen”.
p. 46