The ^ASiblys of London

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The ^ASiblys of London is written by Susan Sommers and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190687347 (ISBN 10) and 9780190687342 (ISBN 13).

Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to existing scholarly accounts of brothers Ebenezer and Manoah, while locating the entire Sibly family in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.