Pseudo-martyr : wherein out of certaine propositions, this conclusion is evicted, that those which are of the Romane religion may and ought to take the oath of allegiance
John Donne's Pseudo-martyr, printed in London in 1610 by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, is a polemical tract arguing that English Catholics may swear the oath of allegiance, addressed to a Jacobean readership of clergy and lay readers. The four pictures are woodcut decorated initial letters T, each framed by interlaced strapwork, scrolling foliage and hatched shading, showing how a designer can borrow a dense, symmetrical capital for headers or monograms.
