PAMPHLET, in form of a letter to a person unnamed, in reference to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, [James II.], urging by historical examples the right of the royal family to arrange its marriages without reference to Parliament, and without taking into consideration the question o...
" A VINDICATION Of ye Revolution, or a Hearty Endeavour to unite all the Members of the Church of England to the present Government, in a Dialogue between a Jacobite Tory and a Williaimite Tory." Apparently written before the death of Qu. Mary (27 Dec. 1694). Paper - ff. 17. Bound in dark blue m...
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS upon the state and condition of England, 1695. The tract is divided into twelve chapters, viz. (1) " As to the number of the People of England " ;-(2) " The proportion of England in acres and people to France and Holland, to Europe, and to the world in general; with a calc...
TRACT " Concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and new Oaths imposed in lieu of them how far the obligation of the former ceases in respect of King James, etc."; circ. 1700. Paper; ff. 16. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy: circ. 1700. O...
" A LETTER to a young Gentleman by a Tutor and Fellow of a College in Oxford," giving him advice as to his behaviour in political affairs. The preface is dated 4 Apr. 1748. The name of George Bridges appears oil the cover, and the MS. is evidently in his hand, but there was no graduate of that n...
" A PLAN for the more speedy conclusion of the present very bloody and expensive war [with France], in case it shall not be thought expedient to continue it on the present footing in Germany, by Thomas Cole "; circ. 1758. With a dedicatory letter to George II., in which the writer speaks of havi...
TRACTS, political and legal, etc.:- 1. Speech of Sir Walter Mildmay in the Star Chamber, 28 Mar. 1587, " at the censure of Secretary [William] Davison," for despatching the Queen's warrant for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, her Majestic being alto-ether vnacquainted with the matter., n...
1. " AN ARGUMENT upon the questions of Impositions [debated in 1610], diuided into sundry chapters, by Sr John Dauyes, Knight, one of his Maiestyes learnd Counsell in Ireland " [Attorney General for Ireland, 1606, ob. 1626]. Printed under the title, The question concerning Impositions, etc., 165...
TRACTS, political and legal, etc..- 1. " An argument vppon the question of Imposicions, devided into sundrie chapters, by Sr John Davies, knight," etc. (See above, No. 297, art. l.) f. 2. 2. Argument against Impositions, by James Whitelocke, preceded by the Remonstrance from the House of Commo...
" A DISCOURSE of the late Earle of Anglesey's [Arthur Annesley, lst Earl, 1661, ob. 1686], upon two conferences had between the two howses, touching impositions on merchandizes, &c., setting forth the jurisdiction of the Lords and the power of the Commons, and granting of subsidies, &c.,...