Title page from The Englishman Deceived; a Political Piece: Wherein Some Very Important Secrets of State Are Briefly Recited, and Offered to the Consideration of the Public

The Englishman Deceived; a Political Piece: Wherein Some Very Important Secrets of State Are Briefly Recited, and Offered to the Consideration of the Public

This essay is a political pamphlet written by Stephen Sayre. The pamphlet addresses what its author presents as significant hidden matters of state, framed as a warning or corrective to British readers regarding the political questions surrounding the American colonies in the years leading up to the Revolution.

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The text of these 18th century pamphlets has been converted by machine from scanned PDFs of the original microfilm copies. While the text has been machine-proofed, transcription errors may still remain. For example, the 18th-century long S, ſ , may be rendered as “f,” some words may be incorrectly transcribed, and there may be repeated words or phrases.