Author: [EDWARD OXFORD]
Title: A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God> for His late merciful Preservation of The Queen from the atrocious and treasonable Attempt against Her Sacred Person, on Wednesday the 10th of June 1840. To be used at Morning and Evening Service, After General Thanksgiving, in all Churches and Chapels... on Sunday 21st of June... and to be continued for Thirty Days afterwards.
Description: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1840. Square 8vo. pp. 4. Copac lists 4 locations only. The first of eight attempts on the Queen's life. Oxford was charged with treason but found not guilty by reason of insanity. After a spell in Bethlem and then Broadmoor, he was transported to Australia in 1868 where, under an assumed name John Freeman, he married a widow and became a churchwarden. He wrote articles under the name Liber for the Melbourne Argus on the city's slums, markets and racetracks which were published as Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life [1888]. He died in 1900. The identification of John Freeman as Edward Oxford was only made in 1987 in an article by F.B. Smith, Lights and Shadows in the Life of John Freeman, published in Victorian Studies.

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