Tragi-Comœdia. : being a brief relation of the strange, and wonderfull hand of God discovered at Witny, in the comedy Acted there February the third, where there were some slaine, many hurt, with severall other remarkable passages. ; Together with what was preached in three sermons on that occasion from Rom. 1.18. ; Both which may serve as some check to the growing atheisme of the present age.
A 1653 Oxford pamphlet by John Rowe, printed by Leonard Lichfield for the bookseller Henry Cripps, recounting a deadly accident at a comedy performance at Witney and offering sermons against atheism. Its pictures are small printed woodcut ornaments: two square decorative initial letters, I and T, framed by scrolls and urns, a floral strip, and a diagram of a building with rows of benches and figures labelled A and C. A designer could borrow the framed capital letter borders and the botanical strip as period ornament.
