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(On) Lord Francis Bacon
1642. At the committee of Lords and Commons, for advance of money and other necessaries for the army
A (Second) letter to a member of Parliament concerning the common notion that raising our money will increase it and keep it in England, &c. ..
A Brief and summary narrative of the many mischiefs and inconveniences in former times as well as of late years occasioned by naturalizing of aliens
A Brief survey of the growth of usury in England, with the mischiefs attending it
A Catalogue of the damages for which the English demand reparation from the United-Netherlands : as also a list of the damages, actions, and pretenses for which those of the United-Netherlands demand reparation and satisfaction from the English : together with the answer of the English, subjoyn'd to the several and respective points of their demands
A Clause in the act of Parliament for laying a duty on leather and skins ... : the grievous case without a parallel
A Collection out of the book called Liber regalis, remaining in the treasury of the church of Westminster : touching the coronation of the king and queen together, according to the usual form
A Computation of what a tax laid only on shooes, boots, slippers, and gloves may amount unto in a year : whereby it is made appear it will bring more mony into the Exchequer, and be a less tax on the subject, of as little charge and trouble to collect, and the poor not so liable to be oppress'd by it as by a general tax on leather
A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court
A Copy of a letter concerning the election of a Lord Protector. : Written to a member of Parliament
A Declaration of the libertyes of the English nation : principally with respect to forests
A Dialogue at Oxford between a tutor and a gentleman, formerly his pupil, concerning government
A Dialogue between a director of the new East-India Company and one of the committee for preparing by-laws for the said company : in which those for a rotation of directors and the preventing of bribes are particularly debated
A Dialogue betwixt Mr. State Rogue, a Parliament-man, and his old acquaintance Mr. John Undertaker
A Dialogue betwixt Sam, the ferriman of Dochet, Will, a waterman of London, and Tom, a bargeman of Oxford : upon the Kings calling a Parliament to meet at Oxford
A Dialogue or accidental discourse betwixt Mr. Alderman Abell, and Richard Kilvert, the two maine projectors for wine, and also aldermans Abels wife, & c : contayning their first manner of their acquaintance, how they began to contrive the patent itselfe, how they obtayned it, and who drew the patent : also in what state they now stand in, and how they accuse and raile at each other with invective speeches ..
A Discourse concerning militia's and standing armies : with relation to the past and present governments of Europe, and of England in particular
A Discourse of the necessity of encouraging mechanick industry : wherein is plainly proved that luxury and the want of artisans labour became the ruin of the four grand monarchies of the world, in the former age, and of Spain and other countries, in this, and the promoting of manual trades the rise of the Dutch, Germans, &c. : parallel'd and compared with and shewn to be practicable under the present constitution of England
A Familiar discourse between George, a true-hearted English gentleman, and Hans, a Dutch merchant, concerning the present affairs of England
A Free conference touching the present state of England both at home and abroad, in order to the designs of France
A Full answer to the Levellers petition, presented to the House of Commons on Munday Septemb. 11, 1648 : wherein the divellish poyson therein contained is discussed throughout, by way of confutation of every materiall branch thereof : contrived for the satisfaction of all those who are not able to discover the danger of those destructive and abominable principles therein delivered, and to recall those who are, or shall be misled thereby
A Full answer to the depositions : and to all other the pretences and arguments whatsoever concerning the birth of the Prince of Wales : the intreague thereof detected, the whole design being set forth, with the way and manner of doing it : whereunto is annexed a map or survey engraven of St. James's Palace and the convent there, describing the place wherein it is supposed the true mother was delivered, with the particular doors and passages through which the child was convey'd to the Queens bed-chamber
A Full report of the trials of the Bristol rioters before the special commission appointed to deliver the gaol of this city in January 1832 : with the sentences & executions consequent thereon : also, a report of the proceedings of the court martial appointed to investigate the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, inspecting field officer of the Bristol district : with full particulars of the suicide of that unfortunate officer and the inquest held on his body : to which is subjoined a full report of the court martial on Captain Warrington
A Fund for supplying and preserving our coin, or, An essay on the project of new-coining our silver
A Further explication of the proposal relating to the coyne
A General view of the African slave-trade : demonstrating its injustice and impolicy : with hints towards a bill for its abolition
A Jerk for the jacks, or, All their hopes are lost : being an account of the vast and prodigious expectations our foreign foes and domestick enemies, the French, the Papists, and the Jacobites, lately had of a new revolution upon the stop of commerce occasion'd by the badness of, and calling in our silver coin, and how basely they are balk'd ..
A Journal of several remarkable passages : before the honourable House of Commons and the right honourable the lords of Their Majesties most honourable Privy Council, relating to the East-India trade
A Letter concerning the disabling clauses lately offered to the House of Commons for regulating corporations
A Letter humbly offer'd to the consideration of all gentlemen, yeomen, citizens, freeholders, &c. that have right to elect members to serve in Parliament
A Letter to a gentleman in the country concerning the price of guineas
A Letter to a gentleman, upon a royal fishery, a council of trade, and a national fishery
A Letter to a gentlemen at Brussels containing an account of the causes of the peoples revolt from the crown
A Letter to a member of Parliament concerning guards and garisons
A Letter to a member of Parliament concerning the four regiments commonly called Mariners
A Letter to a member of Parliament, occasion'd by the votes of the House of Commons against their late speaker, and others
A Letter to a member of the honourable House of Commons in answer to three queries : I. whether there is no other cause of our want of bullion and coin but the cliping of our money and the expence of the war, II. whether it is possible to manage the trade of the nation without a supply in specie equal to what we have lost, III. whether a forc'd credit can be an expedient under our present circumstances : with some other remarks in relation to our own and foreign manufacturies
A Letter to a member of the late Parliament concerning the debts of the nation
A Letter to a member of the late Parliament concerning the debts of the nation
A Letter to an eminent member of Parliament about the present rate of guineas and the influence they will have on our expected new money
A Letter to two members of Parliament
A List of gentlemen that are in offices, employments, &c
A List of several ships belonging to English merchants, taken by French privateers since December, one thousand six hundred seventy and three : also a brief account touching what applications hath been made for redress, at the Council-Board and with the Committee of Trade
A List of the names and sir-names of the Lords spiritual and temporal, knights, citizens, burgesses, and barons of the Cinque ports, in the grand convention of England : to begin the 22d. of January, 1688/9
A Moderate computation of what the water-tax (proposed to the honourable House of Commons) may amount to, towards the supplying parliamentary funds
A Modest offer of some meet considerations, tendred to the English about their coyne and trade, and particularly to East-India
A New ballad upon the Land-Bank, or, Credit restored : to the tune of All for love and no money
A New project humbly offer'd to the consideration of the honourable House of Commons for the more effectual encouragement of a general trade, the facilitating the changing of our clipp'd money and sinking the bad, for raising the King 100000 l. and for the more speedy and more chearfull payment of all the King's taxes, without loss to any, and with gain to all
A New song
A Proposal for a new adventure wherein none can be unfortunate, greater allowance being made to the blanks than was in the million adventure, with the same security, and managed by the same commissioners
A Proposal for erecting a general bank, which may be fitly called the Land Bank of England
A Proposal for putting some stop to the extravagant humour of stock-jobbing
A Proposal for raising a fund for supply of the deficiency of the clipt money, on houses, buildings, & c : which is hoped, may be found more equal than by that of the windows
A Proposal for remeeding our excessive luxury
A Proposal for the King's supply, and for quieting the people, and to prevent the loss of our wealth to foreigners
A Proposal for the raising the summe of two hundred thousand pounds or more per annum as a fund or security : for advancing moneys for the service of the government with great ease to the subject
A Proposal of the poets to raise Their Majesties a sum of money
A Proposal to raise four hundred thousand pounds per ann. without any imposition or new tax, by amending the deficiency of an old one, namely, the excise on beer and ale
A Proposal to the Bank of England and the banks now setting up : with some few considerations about goldsmiths notes
A Rambling letter to a friend
A Remedie against the losse of the subject by farthing-tokens : discovering the great abuses of them heretofore and the prevention of the like hereafter by making them of such a weight as may countervaile their worth in current coyne and proposing a satisfactorie way for the exchange of those that are already dispersed abroad : with some usefull cautions touching the receipt of certaine forraigne coyne : published for the good of Commonwealth in generall, but more especially of the poorer sort
A Reply to a paper entituled An answer to the sugar-refiners paper
A Reply to the answer Doctor Welwood has made to King James's declaration : which declaration was dated at St. Germaine's, April 17th, S.N. 1693, and was published also in the Paris gazett, June 20th, 1693
A Reply to the answerer of the letter sent to the author of a paper called The doctrine of passive obedience and jure divino disproved ..
A Reply to the paper entituled, an Answer to the case of the proprietors and refiners of rock-salt
A Representation concerning the late Parliament in the yeer 1654 : to prevent mistakes
A Review of the universal remedy for all diseases incident to coin : with application to our present circumstances. In a letter to Mr. Locke
A Scheme for raising two millions upon annuities for lives : out of a fund of 120,000 l. per ann. appropriated to that use, with greater ease to the government and more advantage to the subject than any other scheme heretofore
A Seasonable memento both to king and people upon this critical juncture of affaires ..
A Seasonable proposal to the nation concerning a register of estates in this kingdom : tendred to the consideration of the publick-spirited in both houses ..
A Second complaint : being an honest letter to a dovbtfvll friend : about the rifling of the twentieth part of his estate
A Serious and faithfull representation of the judgements of ministers of the Gospell within the province of London : contained in a letter from them to the general and his councell of warre
A Short account of some approved methods already settled to make provision for posterity : with an assay towards establishing a company for that purpose more advantageous than any before invented
A Short and true relation concerning the soap-business : containing the severall patents, proclamations, orders, whereby the soape-makers of London, and other His Majesties subjects, were damnified, by the gentlemen that were the patentees for soape at Westminster, with the particular proceedings concerning the same
A Short answer to The case of British buckrams for tillets, asserted
A Short state of our condition with relation to the present Parliament
A Short vindication of marine regiments : in answer to a pamphlet entituled A letter to a member of Parliament concerning the four marine regiments
A True account of land forces in England, and provisions for them, from before the reputed Conquest downwards : and of the regard had to foreiners : in a letter to A.B.C., T.T.T., &c. : with animadversions upon their Argument and History of standing armies, Militia reformed, pretended Confutation of the ballancing letter, Life of Milton, and Letters concerning guards, garrisons, and mariners
A True account of the whole proceedings betwixt His Grace James Duke of Ormond and the Right Honor. Arthur Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy-seal : before the King and Council : and the said earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester's to the said earl, of the means to keep out popery ..
A True and perfect relation of the barbarous and cruell passages of the King's Army, at old Brainceford, neer London : being presented to the House of Commons, by a committee of the same house, who was sent thither, on purpose to examine the truth of the particular actions of the said army
A View of the penal laws concerning trade and trafick : alphabetically disposed under proper heads, wherein for that purpose are collected all the statutes to the end of the last session 1697 ... also some necessary additions of penalties and forfeitures collected and published by way of monition ... to which is added a table of such offences, &c. as are punishable in the crown office ..
A Vindication of the London apprentices petition : and the legality of their subscriptions asserted
A Word in season about guineas
A Word in season about guineas, and the poor's clipp'd mony
A beacon set on fire: or The humble information of certain stationers, citizens of London, to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England. : Concerning the vigilancy of Jesuits, papists, and apostates, (taking advantage of the divisions among our selves and the states great employment,) to corrupt the pure doctrine of the Scriptures. Introduce the whole body of popish doctrine & worship. Seduce the subjects of this Commonwealth unto the popish religion, or that which is worse. By writing and publishing many popish books, (printed in England in the English tongue within these three last years, therein maintaining all the gross points of popery ... And blasphemous books of another nature: all made evident by the catalogue and contents of many of the aforesaid books added hereunto. Published for the service of the Parliament and commonwealth. Hoping that the Parliament by sufficient laws ... will set themselves ... to maintain the faith that was once delivered to the saints against all the enemies thereof
A beginning teacher's guide to special educational needs
A bill for sale of the late Earl of Ranelagh's estate at Chelsea and Cranborn, in the counties of Middlesex and Berks
A book of funds, or, Some reasonable projections and proposals for raising three millions of money per annum for supplies, to be granted His Majesty by such ways and methods as will be least burthensome to the people during the war
A breife [sic] memento to the present unparliamentary junto : touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute, Charles Steward, their lawfull King.
A breviat of some proposals prepared to be offered to the great wisdom of the nation, the King's most excellent Majesty, and both houses of Parliament for the speedy restoring the woollen manufacture, by a method practiced in other nations : already perused and approved by those known promoters of England's weal and safety, the most illustrious Prince Rupert and the Right Honourable, the Earl of Shaftsbury ...
A brief account of some of the late incroachments and depredations of the Dutch upon the English : and of a few of those many advantages which by fraud and violence they have made of the British nations since the revolution, and of the means enabling them thereunto
A brief advertisement to the merchant and clothier about the present state of the woollen manufactures of this nation : to which is added an abstract of a late impression of England's interest by trade
A brief and serious warning to such as are concerned in commerce and trading : who go under the profession of truth, to keep within the bounds thereof, in righteousness, justice and honesty towards all men
A brief discourse of the present miseries of the kingdome : declaring by what practises the people of England have been deluded and seduced into slavery, and how they have been continued therein ...
A brief narrative of the late treacherous and horrid designe, which by the great blessing and especiall providence of God hath been lately discovered : and for which, publike thanksgiving is by order of both Houses of Parliament appointed on Thursday the 15. of June, 1643. Together with a true copie of the commission under the great Seal, sent from Oxford, to severall persons in the citie of London. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this narration and commission be read in all churches and chappels, in the cities of London and Westminster, and suburbs thereof, on the day abovesaid. H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com
A brief narrative of the nature & advantages of the Land-Bank, as proposed by Dr. Hugh Chamberlain, the first author of founding a bank on an annual revenue
A brief vindication of Mr. Percivall Brunskell's case : with an account of twenty one years most remarkable passages
A case concerning the buying of bishops lands, with the lawfulness thereof : and the difference between the contractors for sale of those lands and the corporation of VVells : ordered anno. 1650 to be reported to the then Parliament, with the necessity thereof since fallen upon Dr. Burges
A catalogue of the lords, knights, and gentlemen that have compounded for their estates
A catalogue of the lords, knights, and gentlemen that have compounded for their estates : to which are added, some gentlemens names, which were omitted in the former edition
A catalogue of the names of the dukes, marquesses, earles and lords, that have absented themselves from the Parliament, and are now with His Maiesty. : And of the names of the lords that subscribed to levie horse to assist His Majestie with. A copie of all the cavaliers of his Majesties marching army, with the number of captaines in each severall regiment ; every regiment containing a thousand souldiers. As also, a list of the army of his Excellency, Robert, Earle of Essex: with the names of the troops of horse under the command of William Earle of Bedford. Each troop consisting of sixtie horse ; besides two trumpetters, three corporalls, a sadler, and a farrier. With the instructions sent by the Parliament to his Excellency. A list of the navie royall, and merchants ships: the names of the captaines, and lievtenants ; their men and burdens, for the guard of the narrow-seas, and for Ireland. Moreover, the names of the orthodox divines, presented by the knights and burgesses, as fit persons to be consulted with by the Parliament touching the reformation of church government and liturgie. Lastly, the field officers chosen for the Irish expedition, for the regiments of 5000. foote and 500. horse
A caution to the Parliament, Councel of State, and army, that the commonwealth be no longer deceived in their accounts
A character of Her Highness the Princess *** attempted by an eminent physician, who has attended her from her birth
A child's history of england
A cleare and evident way for enriching the nations of England and Ireland : and for setting very great numbers of poore on work
A collection of acts and ordinances of general use, made in the Parliament : begun and held at Westminster the third day of November, anno 1640, and since unto the adjournment of the Parliament begun and holden the 17th of September, anno 1656, and formerly published in print ... being a continuation of that work from the end of Mr. Pulton's collection : in two parts
A collection of all the publicke orders, ordinances, and declarations of both houses of Parliament from the ninth of March 1642 untill December 1646 : together with severall of His Majesties proclamations and other papers printed at Oxford : also, a convenient table for the finding of the severall date and title of the particulars herein mentioned
A collection of all the statutes now in force, relating to the excise upon beer, ale, and other liquors, and the duties upon malt, brandy, and hops : with an abridgment of the said statutes, and a table of the rates upon the several liquors, etc. shewing by what Acts they are imposed
A collection of all the statutes relating to the excise : with notes in the margin : to which is added an abridgement or breviary of the said statutes, wherein the substance of all that relates to one and the same matter or head respectively is collected together and placed under one and the same proper title and referred to the pages of the said statutes for the more easie and ready finding : with a table of all the said titles subjoyned
A collection of some papers writ upon several occasions : concerning clipt and counterfeit money, and trade, so far as it relates to the exportation of bullion
A collection of svndry petitions presented to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie : as also to the two most honourable houses, now assembled in Parliament, and others, already signed, by most of the gentry, ministers, and free-holders of severall counties, in behalfe of episcopacie, liturgie, and supportation of church-revenues, and suppression of schismaticks
A collection of the debates and proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695 : upon the inquiry into the late briberies and corrupt practices
A collection of the severall acts, ordinances, & orders as well of Parliament as of His Highness the Lord Protector (now in force) for the levying of monies by way of excise and new-impost : together with severall orders of the Council, the Commissioners for Appeals and Regulating the Excise, &c. relating to the management thereof
A common councell held at Guild-Hall in the city of London the 31 of December, 1641
A common-councell holden the first day of May 1660 ..
A companion for debtors and prisoners, and advice to creditors : in ten letters
A complaint to the House of Commons : and resolution taken up by the free Protestant subjects of the cities of London and Westminster, and the counties adjacent
A confutation of a late pamphlet intituled, A letter ballancing the necessity of keeping a land-force in times of peace, with the dangers that may follow on it
A continuation of Mr. John-Amos-Comenius school-endeavours, or, A summary delineation of Dr. Cyprian Kinner, Silesian, his thoughts concerning education, or, The way and method of teaching, exposed to the ingenuous and free censure of all piously-learned men ... : together with an advice how these thoughts may be successfully put in practice
A copie of the Kings commission granted to Sir Nicolas Crispe making him admirall of the sea-pirats : brought (with other papers) to the Parliament by M. Peters and presented to the Committee for the Navie
A curriculum for the pre-school child : learning to learn
A cyclopædia of commerce, mercantile law, finance, commercial geography, and navigation
A declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable, oft-condemned, new tax and extortion of excise in general : and for hops (a native incertain commodity) in particular
A declaration and protestation of the Lords and Commons in Parliament to this Kingdom and the whole world : wherein (amongst divers of His Majesties late illegall proceedings) is discovered how severall commissions under the Kings authority have been granted to many profest papists (herein nominated) for places of command in this warre ... : also how Sir Iohn Hinderson and Collonel Cockram were sent to Hamburgh and Denmarke to raise forces there and in other forraine parts, to bring into this kingdom, with the names of some who have been proclaimed rebels in Ireland ... : for which and other reasons they are resolved to enter into a solemne oath and covenant with God to the utmost of their power ... to defend the truth against the Kings popish army ..
A declaration and representation from the forces of the northern associations to his Excellencie, Sir Thomas Fairfax. : And by him presented to the Parliament, June the 12th. 1647
A declaration by the kings majesty to his subjects of the kingdomes of Scotland, England, and Ireland
A declaration concerning the generall accompts of the kingdome : with the true state of all receipts and disbursement of moneys both by land and sea, for the use of the common-wealth, since the first sitting of this Parliament unto the first of Iune, 1642
A declaration concerning the newly invented art of double writing : wherein are expressed the reasons of the authors proceedings in procuring a priviledge for the same : as also of the time, manner, and price, of the discovery of the said art, and of the instruments belonging thereunto ... : whereunto is annexed a copie of an ordinance of both houses of Parliament, approving the feasibility and great use of the said invention, and allowing a priviledge to the inventor, for the sole benefit thereof for 14 years, upon the penalty of one hundred pounds
A declaration in vindication of the honour of the Parliament and of the Committee of the Navy and Customes against all traducers : concerning the managing of the navy and customes and many other weighty affaires of state : faithfully relating what strength of shipping have been yearly employed for the guarding of the seas and what moneys arising by the revenue of the customes, excise of flesh and salt, and other receits have been applyed to that use, the rules by which they have been all managed, and a just account how the moneys have been disposed
A declaration made by the Earl of Nevv-Castle, Governour of the town and county of New-Castle : and generall of all His Majesties forces raised in the northern parts of this kingdom, for the defence of the same. For his resolution of marching into Yorkshire. As also, a just vindication of himself from that unjust aspersion laid upon him, for entertaining some popish recusants in his forces
A declaration of His Highnes the Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for a day of solemn fasting and humiliation in the three nations
A declaration of His Highnes, by the advice of his council : setting forth, on the behalf of this Commonwealth, the justice of their cause against Spain. Friday the 26th of October, 1655. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and the council, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Council
A declaration of His Highnes, by the advice of his council : shewing the reasons of their proceedings for securing the peace of the Commonwealth, upon occasion of the late insurrection and rebellion. Wednesday, October, 31. 1655. Ordered by his Highness and the Council, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobel, Clerk of the Council
A declaration of His Maiesties royall pleasure in what sort he thinketh fit to enlarge or reserue himselfe in matter of bountie
A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament : upon two letters sent by Sir John Brooks, (sometimes a Member of the Commons House this parliament ... being a projector, a monopolist, and a fomentor of the present bloudy and unnaturall war ; for bearing of arms actually against the Parliament) to William Killegrew at Oxford (intercepted neer Coventrey) giving his advice how the King should proceed in the Treaty upon the propositions for peace, presented unto him by the Parliament. With the names of the lords, baronets, knights, esquires, gentlemen, ministers and freeholders, indicted the last sessions at Grantham, of high-treason, by Sir Peregrine Bartue and the said Sir John Brooks, before themselves, and other their fellow-cavaliers, rebels and traitors, commissioners, appointed, (as they say), for that purpose. ... Also, the ordinance of both Houses, made the 17 of Decemb. 1642. that the pretended commissioners, and all others, sheriffs, officers, jurors, and any whom it may concern, may know what to expect, that shall presume to molest the persons or estates of any for their service to the Parliament and Kingdom. With some abstracts of credible letters from Exceter ... Ordered by the Commons in Parl. that this declaration and letters be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com
A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament, for bringing to condigne punishment, those that have raised false and scandalous rumors against the House, how that they intend to assesse every mans pewter, and lay excizes upon other commodities : as also further directions to his excellence the Earle of Essex, Generall of the Army, and to the committee for his assistance in the Army, appointed by both houses of Parliament
A declaration of the Commons in Parliament made September the 9th 1641
A declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled : expressing their reasons and grounds of passing the late resolutions touching no farther address or application to be made to the King. Die veneris, 11. Februarii, 1647. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com
A declaration of the General Council of the Officers of the Army: agreed upon at Wallingford-house, 27th Octob. 1659. : Thursday, 27th Octob. 1659. Ordered by the General Council of the Officers of the Army, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Tho: Sandford Secret
A declaration of the Lord Generall and his Councel of Officers, shewing the grounds and reasons for the dissolution of the late Parliament
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : concerning the disbanding of the army: with instructions for the same. As also two ordinances: one for taking the accounts of the souldiary of the kingdom. The other for releefe of maimed souldiers and marriners, and the widowes and orphans of such as have died in the service of the Parliament. Die Veneris 28 Maii 1647. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this declaration, instructions, and ordinances be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : for the raising of all power, and force, as well trained bands as others, in severall counties of this kingdom, to lead against all traytors, and their adherents, and them to arrest and imprison, and to fight with, kill, and slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties loving subjects that shall be imployed in this service, by either or both Houses of Parliament
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : that whatsoever souldier or souldiers shall breake open, pillage, or ransacke any mans house, under colour that they are papists, or persons dis-affected (without command of their captaine) shall be pursued and punished according to the law as felons. Also a speciall order of both Houses concerning irregular printing, and for the suppressing of all false and scandalous pamphlets. Die Sabbathi, August. 27. 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that this declaration and order be forthwith printed and published. John Browne Cler. Parliament
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : with the advice and concurrence of the commissioners of Scotland, to publish their proceedings up[o]n His Majesties letter, touching a treaty of peace ; and to declare their resolutions and endeavours, to put an end to the unhappy distempers of the kingdome, by a safe and well grounded peace. 23 Martii, 1643. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament that Master Glynn take care for the printing of the declaration concerning His Majesties letter for a treaty of peace ; together with an act of this present Parliament, and severall other letters, thereunto annexed. Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament conncerning the Kings Majesty : and His Majesties gracious message and propositions, sent from the Isle of Wyght, for setleing of the church and kingdome, and paying of the army : with His Majesties desire to come to London to the Parliament : also a letter from the Scots commissioners to the Parliament concerning the Kings Majesty
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament to the whole kingdome concerning the excise : with additionall instructions for the better regulating of the same
A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament upon the statute of 5 H.4 whereby the commission of array is supposed to be warranted : together with divers other statutes whereby it appeares that the said commission is not warranted by any act of Parliament, that it is contrary to the laws and customes of the realme, destructive to the liberty and property of the subject, contrary to the Petition of Right and the statute made this present Parliament : as also His Majesties letter to the sherif of Leicestershire to execute the said commission according to His Majesties proclamation
A declaration of the Lords and Commons of the Parliament of England : to the high and mighty lords, the states of the United Provinces
A declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster. : January 23. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Thomas St Nicholas, Clerk of the Parliament
A declaration of the Parliament of England, in answer to the late letters sent to them from the commissioners of Scotland
A declaration of the Parliament of England. : Written to the high and mighty Lords, the Lords States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low-Countreys: concerning their last embassie extraordinary into England
A declaration of the Parliament of the commonwealth of England, for a time of publique Thanksgiving, upon the five and twentieth of this instant August, for the great victory lately vouchsafed to their fleet at sea
A declaration of the army of England, upon their march into Scotland
A declaration of the causes mooving the Queene of England to giue aide to the defence of the people afflicted and oppressed in the Lowe Countries
A declaration of the most Christian King, Louis the XIIIth [sic], King of France and Navarre : declaring the reasons wherefore His Majesty hath prohibited all trade with England, also that he hath given commission to raise an army for the assistance of the King of England
A declaration of the officers of the army, inviting the members of the long Parliament, who continued sitting till the 20th of April, 1653. to return to the exercise and discharge of their trust. : Friday 6 May, 1659. Ordered by the Lord Fleetwood, and the general council of the officers of the army, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Thomas Sandford Secretary
A declaration of the several proceedings of both Houses of Parliament : vvith those in the county of Kent now in arms against the authority of Parliament, manifesting their desires and endeavors for the avoiding of the effusion of blood. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration and proceedings concerning the business of Kent by printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com
A declaration of the severall votes and resolutions agreed upon by both Houses of Parljament : beeing in all 32 : for the safety of His Maiesties person, the defence of the kingdome, and the security of both Houses of Parliament, and the priviledges thereof : whereunto is annexed the votes, at which His Maiestie takes exceptions at
A declaration of the true causes which moued His Maiestie to assemble, and after inforced Him to dissolue the two last meetings in Parliament
A declaration or manifest of the high and mighty lords the States Generall of the Vnited Netherland Provinces : comprehending a true relation of their sincere intention, and lawfull proceedings in the treaty with the extraordinary embassadors, and the commissionaries of the present goverment [sic] of England, so as the same hath been held here in the Hague, as also at London. And likewise of the unjust and violent proceedings of those of the said government, which have forced the said States Generall by way of retortion, to defend their state and subjects against their oppressions
A declaration or ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the seizing of horses for His Excellency the Earl of Essex : with a provision that this ordinance shall not extend to the seizing or taking of any horses, mares, or geldings of any the members of both houses of Parliament or any of the assistants of the House of Peers ... ; also, an order of the Commons House in Parliament concerning coals, that they shall be sold at 20 shillings the chaldron or 23 s. at the most ... unto the poor, and unto house-keepers and those of the meaner sort ..
A decree lately made in the High Court of Starre-Chamber : after consultation had among the iudges, and certificate of their opinions in diuers things, &c. : and also a confirmation of that decree by His Sacred Maiestie, together with His Maiesties command that the same be printed, published, and put in due execution
A defence and vindication of the right of tithes against sundry late scandalous pamphlets : shewing the lawfullnesse of them and the just remedy in law for them, as well in London as elsewhere
A defence of the bill for the registration of slaves : in letters to William Wilberforce Esq. M.P. : letter the first
A defence of the charter and municipal rights of the city of London : and the rights of other municipal cities and towns of England : directed to the citizens of London
A defensive declaration of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn : against the unjust sentence of his banishment, by the late Parliament of England ; directed in an epistle from his house in Bridges in Flanders, May 14. 1653. (Dutch or new still, or the 4 of may 1653. English or old stile) to his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell, and the rest of the officers of his Army, commonly sitting in White-hall in councel, managing the present affairs of England, &c. Unto which is annexed, an additional appendix directed from the said Leut. Col. John Lilburn, to his Excellency and his officers, occasioned by his present imprisonment in Newgate ; and some groundless scandals, for being an agent of the present King, cast upon him by some great persons at White-hall, upon the delivery of his third address (to the councel of State, by his wife and several other of his friends) dated from his captivity in Newgate the 20 of June 1653
A detection of the court and state of England during the four last reigns and the inter-regnum : consisting of private memoirs, &c. with observations and reflections : and an appendix, discovering the present state of the nation ... as also, a more impartial account of the civil wars in England ... in two volumes
A dialogue between a countrey gentleman and a merchant : concerning the falling of guinea's : wherein the whole argument relating to our money is discuss'd
A diamond or rich jewel presented to the common-wealth of England for inriching of the nation : being necessary for the use of all marchants and tradesmen, and advantagious to the poor, wherein is declared a way, 1. How all forraign moneys may pass in England and gain the merchants 10 per cent ... 2. To settle a banke in London for furnishing all trades with money ... 3. To supply the nation with salt at three half pence the gallon. 4. To encrease the trade of fishing ... 5. To make England the richest nation in Europe ... 6. To save half the charges of the officers of excise and custome ... 7. To free all necessary commodities from taxes. 8. To settle an insurance office cheap ...
A discourse (by way of essay) humbly offer'd to the consideration of the honourable House of Commons, towards the raising moneys by an excise : demonstrating the conveniency of raising moneys that way : together with an enumeration of some certain particular commodities, whereupon an annual receipt of one million may be presently settled, and with the same ease to the people, as any other part of His Majesty's revenue whatsoever
A discourse betwixt Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilburn close prisoner in the Tower of London, and Mr Hugh Peter: upon May 25. 1649. Published by a friend, for the publick benefit
A discourse concerning coining the new money lighter : in answer to Mr. Lock's Considerations about raising the value of money
A discourse concerning the fishery within the British seas and other His Majesties dominions : and more especially as it relates to the trade of the Company of the Royal Fishery of England, offered to consideration in order to subscriptions for raising a stock, for carrying on the affairs thereof upon the terms proposed
A discourse concerning the great benefit of drayning and imbanking, and of transportation by water within the country
A discourse concerning trade, and that in particular of the East-Indies : wherein several weighty propositions are fully discussed, and the state of the East-India Company is faithfully stated
A discourse for a king and Parliament : in four sections. Demonstrating I. The inconsistency of a free-state with the scituation of this countrey, and constitution of the people. II. Mischiefs incident to the continuance of their endeavours that act in order thereunto. III. The advantages probably attending a composure with the King of Scots. IV. Resolves to the grand objections that seeme to obstruct it. By a moderate and serious pen
A discourse of fines : shewing by what easie (although corrupt and unlawful) method of practice it may happen that any person or his heirs in England at one time or other to be legally defrauded and disinherited by abuses in fines
A discourse of government with relation to militia's
A discourse of money : being an essay on that subject, historically and politically handled, with reflections on the present evil state of the coin of this kingdom, and proposals of a method for the remedy, in a letter to a nobleman, &c
A discourse of sea-ports : principally of the port and haven of Dover
A discourse of the fishery : briefly laying open, not only the advantages, and facility of the undertaking, but likewise the absolute necessity of it, in order to the well-being, both of King, and people : asserted and vindicated from all materiall obejections
A discourse of the general notions of money, trade, & exchanges, as they stand in relation each to other : attempted by way of aphorism : with a letter to a minister of state further explaining the aphorisms, and applying them to the present circumstances of this nation : wherein also some thoughts are suggested for the remedying the abuses of our money
A discourse of the nationall excellencies of England
A discourse of the nature, use, and advantages of trade : proposing some considerations for the promotion and advancement thereof by a registry of lands, preventing the exportation of coyn, lowering the interest of money, inviting foreign families into England
A discourse of trade
A discourse of trade from England vnto the East-Indies : answering to diuerse obiections which are vsually made against the same
A discourse on the conduct of the government of Great Britain : in respect to neutral nations
A discourse on the late funds of the Million-Act, Lottery-Act, and Bank of England : shewing, that they are injurious to the nobility and gentry, and ruinous to the trade of the nation : together with proposals for the supplying Their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility, gentry, &c. from taxes ... by a national land-bank
A discourse plainely proving the euident vtilitie and vrgent necessitie of the desired happie vnion of the two famous kingdomes of England and Scotland : by way of answer to certaine obiections against the same
A discourse shewing that the exportation of wooll is destructive to this kingdom : wherein is also shewed the absolute necessity of promoting our woollen manufacture, and moderating the importation of some commodities and prohibiting others : with some easie expedients tending thereunto
A discourse shewing the many advantages which will accrue to this kingdom by the abatement of usury : together with the absolute necessity of reducing interest of money to the lowest rate it bears in other countreys, that at least we may trade with our neighbours upon equal terms : humbly presented to the high court of Parliament now sitting
A discourse touching Tanger : on these heads, 1. The service Tanger has already rendred the Crown. 2. What service it may render it, if improv'd. 3. The mischief it may do us, if possess'd by any other powerful prince. 4. Some general observations touching trade. In a letter to a person of quality
A discourse touching provision for the poor
A discourse touching provision for the poor
A discourse upon grants and resumptions : showing how our ancestors have proceeded with such ministers as have procured to themselves grants of the crown-revenue : and that the forfeited estates ought to be applied towards the payment of the publick debts
A discourse upon this saying : the spirit of the nation is not yet to be trusted with liberty lest it introduce monarchy or invade the liberty of conscience
A discourse written by Sir George Downing, the King of Great Britain's envoy extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces : vindicating his royal master from the insolencies of a scandalous libel printed under the title of An extract out of the register of the States General of the United Provinces upon the memorial of Sir George Downing, envoy, &c., and delivered by the agent de Heyde for such to several publick ministers, whereas no such resolution was ever communicated to the said envoy, nor any answer returned at all by their lordships to the said memorial : whereunto is added a relation of some former and later proceedings of the Hollanders
A discovery of the ivglings and deceitfvll impostvres of a scandalous libell against the Parliament : published in the forme of a petition to the houses of Parliament in the name of the inhabitants of London and Westminster and inhabitants of Southwarke pretended to be distressed in point of conscience
A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson
A familiar discourse or dialogue concerning the mine-adventure
A few words minding the representative of the common-wealth of England how they may pay their armies and ease the people of their taxes : which have a long time been a heavy burthen upon the poorer sort
A few words on the encouragement given to slavery and the slave trade : by recent measures and chiefly by the Sugar Bill of 1846
A fourth collection of scarce and valuable tracts on the most interesting and entertaining subjects, but chiefly such as relate to the history and constitution of these kingdoms ...
A fragment on government : being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of government in general, in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries : with a preface, in which is given a critique on the work at large
A further attempt towards the reformation of the coin : with expedients for preventing the stop of commerce during the re-coinage and supplying the Mint with a sufficient quantity of bullion
A further discoverie of the office of public addresse for accommodations
A further essay for the amendment of the gold and silver coins : with the opinion of Mr. Gerrard de Malynes, who was an eminent merchant in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, concerning the standard of England
A further iustification of the present war against the United Netherlands
A further iustification of the present war against the United Netherlands : illustrated with several sculptures
A general introduction to Domesday book : accompanied by indexes of the tenants in chief, and under tenants, at the time of the survey: as well as of the holders of lands mentioned in Domesday anterior to the formation of that record: with an abstract of the population of England at the close of the region of William the Conqueror, so far as the same is actually entered. Illustrated by numerous notes and comments
A grant of the benevolence or contribution to His Most Excellent Majestie by the clergie of the Province of Canterburie in the convocation or sacred synode holden at London, anno Domini 1640
A grave and learned speech or an apology delivered by Denzill Hollis Esq : in a full answer to the charge against him, from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the army: for the clearing of himselfe in every particular crime charged against him in the papers
A guide for constables, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, treasurers of the county stock, masters of the house of correction, bayliffs of mannours, toll-takers in fairs, & c : a treatise briefly shewing the extent and latitude of the several offices, with the power of the officers therein, both by common law and statute, according to the several additions and alterations of the law

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