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A58389 Reflections upon two books, the one entituled, the case of allegiance to a King in possession the other, an answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of allegiance to sovereign powers, in defence of the case of allegiance to a King in possession, on those parts especially wherein the author endeavours to shew his opinion to be agreeable to the laws of this land. In a letter to a friend. 1691 (1691) Wing R734; ESTC R200522 45,353 73 View Text
A32677 The two charters granted by King Charles IId to the proprietors of Carolina with the first and last fundamental constitutions of that colony.; Charter (1663) England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Locke, John, 1632-1704.; Carolina (Colony). Charter (1665); Carolina (Colony). Constitution (1669) 1698 (1698) Wing C3622; ESTC R4148 45,941 64 View Text
A52767 A second pacquet of advices and animadversions sent to the men of Shaftsbury, occasioned by several seditious pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former pacquet. Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678. 1677 (1677) Wing N403; ESTC R25503 46,011 78 View Text
A80048 Judges judged out of their own mouthes or the question resolved by Magna charta, &c. Who have been Englands enemies, kings seducers, and peoples destroyers, from Hen. 3. to Hen. 8. and before and since. Stated by Sr. Edvvard Coke, Knt. late L. Chief Justice of England. Expostulated, and put to the vote of the people, by J. Jones, Gent. Whereunto is added eight observable points of law, executable by justices of peace. Jones, J., Gent.; Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.; England. Magna Charta. 1650 (1650) Wing C4938; Thomason E1414_1; ESTC R13507 46,191 120 View Text
A56178 A legall vindication of the liberties of England, against illegall taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people: or, Reasons assigned by William Prynne of Swainswick in the county of Sommerset, Esquire, why he can neither in conscience, law, nor prudence submit to the new illegall tax or contribution of ninety thousand pounds the month; lately imposed on the kingdom, by a pretended Act of some commons in (or rather out of) Parliament Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1649 (1649) Wing P3996A; ESTC R206108 46,568 58 View Text
A91291 A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen; both in their persons, estates, and elections; and of the memorable votes, resolutions, and Acts of Parliament, for their vindication and corroboration, in the late Parliaments of 3 & 17 of King Charles; collected out of their Journals, and printed Ordinances. Most necessary to be known, considered, re-established (in this present juncture of publick affairs) with all possible old and new securities; against past, present, and future publick violations, under-minings, by force or fraud, for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal wounds in these chief vital parts, and repairing the various destructive subversive breaches in these prime foundations of our English state fabrick; without which no effectual present or future healing, union, peace, or settlement can possibly be expected, or established in our distracted nations. / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1656 (1656) Wing P4095; Thomason E892_3; ESTC R206517 46,699 73 View Text
A56227 A seasonable, historical, legal vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ...; Seasonable, legal, historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1654 (1654) Wing P4122; ESTC R13248 47,108 63 View Text
A74791 A whip for the present House of Lords, or the Levellers levelled. in an epistle writ to Mr. Frost, secretary to the Committee of State, that sits at Darby House, in answer to a lying book said to be his called A declaration, &c. / By L.C. Io. Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, Feb. 27, 1647. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Frost, Walter, fl. 1619-1652. 1648 (1648) Thomason E431_1 47,524 30 View Text
A33959 A perfect guide for Protestant dissenters in case of prosecution upon any of the penal statutes made against them together with the statutes of 35 Eliz. and 22 Car. 2 at large : to which is added a post-script about ecclesiastical courts and prosecution in them. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1682 (1682) Wing C531; ESTC R5384 47,546 38 View Text
A40703 Agreement betwixt the present and the former government, or, A discourse of this monarchy, whether elective or hereditary? also of abdication, vacancy, interregnum, present possession of the crown, and the reputation of the Church of England ; with an answer to objections thence arising, against taking the new Oath of Allegiance, for the satisfaction of the scrupulous / by a divine of the Church of England, the author of a little tract entituled, Obedience due to the present King, nothwithstanding our oaths to the former. Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693. 1689 (1689) Wing F2495; ESTC R40983 47,690 74 View Text
A34350 Considerations touching the dissolving or taking away the court of chancery and the courts of iustice depending upon it with a vindication or defence of the law from what is unjustly charged upon it, and an answer to certain proposals made for the taking away, or alteration, of it. 1653 (1653) Wing C5918; ESTC R18810 47,697 80 View Text
A56154 Demophilos, or, The assertor of the peoples liberty plainly demonstrating by the principles even of nature itself, and by the primitive constitutions of all governments since the creation of the world that the very essence and the fundamentals of all governments and laws was meerly the safety of the people, and the advancement of their rights and liberties, to which is added the general consent of all Parliaments in the nation, and the concurrence of threescore and two kings since first this island was visible in earnest, and by commerce with other nations, hath been refined from fable and neglect / by William Prynne ...; Summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1658 (1658) Wing P3943; ESTC R5727 47,915 74 View Text
A54759 The character of a popish successour compleat in defence of the first part, against two answers, one written by Mr. L'Estrange, called The papist in masquerade, &c., and another by an unknown hand. Phillips, John, 1631-1706. 1681 (1681) Wing P2081; Wing S2671_CANCELLED; ESTC R23102 48,706 43 View Text
A88972 An answer by letter to a worthy gentleman who desired of a divine some reasons by which it might appeare how inconsistent presbyteriall government is with monarchy. In which the platforme of that government is briefly delineated, with the tenents and suitable practices thereof. And withall it is demonstrated, that it is inconsistent with any government whatsoever; is full of faction, sedition and treason; an enemy to all peace, domesticall, neighbourly, brotherly, &c. against soveraigne authority, authority of all iudges, and iudicatories, entrenching upon all so farre, as there can be no liberty of person, trade, commerce or propriety, but at their pleasure who bear sway therein. Maxwell, John, 1590?-1647. 1644 (1644) Wing M1377; Thomason E53_13; ESTC R20000 49,076 82 View Text
A46306 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. England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Privy Council. 1693 (1693) Wing J1097AA; ESTC R212937 49,490 71 View Text
A37313 The debate at large, between the House of Lords and House of Commons, at the free conference, held in the Painted Chamber, in the session of the convention, anno 1688 relating to the word, abdicated and the vacancy of the throne in the Common's vote. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1695 (1695) Wing D506; ESTC R14958 49,640 162 View Text
A26181 The rights and authority of the Commons of the city of London in their Common-hall assembled, particularly in the choice and discharge of their sheriffs, asserted and cleared in answer to the vindication of the Lord-Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Council. Atwood, William, d. 1705? 1695 (1695) Wing A4180; ESTC R28315 49,692 29 View Text
A41263 Fidelis Achates, or, An Historical account of the most remarkable actions in the late reigns and the present revolution in heroick verse. 1699 (1699) Wing F847; ESTC R29825 50,814 178 View Text
A30795 Surinam justice in the case of several persons proscribed by certain usurpers of power in that colony : being a publication of that perfect relation of the beginning, continuance, and end of the late disturbances in the colony of Surinam, set forth under that title, by William Byam Esq. (sometime rightfull) governour of that colony : and the vindication of those gentlemen, sufferers by his injustice, form the calummies wherewith he asperseth them in that relation / couched in the answer thereunto by Robert Sanford ... Sanford, Robert. 1662 (1662) Wing B6377; ESTC R37524 51,112 58 View Text
A22857 Anno xi henrici vij Statuta bonu[m] publicum concerne[n]tia edita in parliamento tento apud westmonesterium xiiij die Octobris anno regni illustrissimi Domini nostri regis Henrici septimi.; Laws, etc. England. 1500 (1500) STC 9352; ESTC S111424 51,309 52 View Text
A41193 Whether the Parliament be not in law dissolved by the death of the Princess of Orange? and how the subjects ought, and are to behave themselves in relation to those papers emitted since by the stile and title of Acts : with a brief account of the government of England : in a letter to a country gentleman, as an answer to his second question. Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. 1695 (1695) Wing F765; ESTC R7434 52,609 60 View Text
A93661 A view of a printed book intituled Observations upon His Majesties late answers and expresses. Spelman, John, Sir, 1594-1643. 1643 (1643) Wing S4941; Thomason E245_22; ESTC R6700 54,336 47 View Text
A32788 Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London : begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648. Chestlin. 1681 (1681) Wing C3786; ESTC R23249 54,531 40 View Text
A90251 Vox plebis, or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny. Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided. Overton, Richard, fl. 1646. 1646 (1646) Wing O636A; Thomason E362_20; ESTC R201218 54,600 73 View Text
A55705 The present settlement vindicated, and the late mis-government proved in answer to a seditious letter from a pretended loyal member of the Church of England to a relenting abdicator / by a gentleman of Ireland. Gentleman of Ireland. 1690 (1690) Wing P3250; ESTC R9106 56,589 74 View Text
A92568 The laws and acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraign James VII by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith holden at Edinburgh the 23. of April 1685, by His Grace William Duke of Queensberry ... His Majesties high commissioner for holding this parliament, by vertue of a commission uder His Majesties great seal of this kingdom, with the special advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament / collected and extracted from the registers and records of Parliament, by George Viscount of Tarbet ...; Laws, etc. Scotland.; Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.; Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1637-1695. 1685 (1685) Wing S1252A; ESTC R42763 56,992 46 View Text
A30329 A collection of papers against popery and arbitrary government written by G. Burnet. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1689 (1689) Wing B5769; ESTC R32598 57,102 50 View Text
A88219 London's liberty in chains discovered. And, published by Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, Octob. 1646.; London's liberty in chains discovered. Part 1 Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Lilburne, Elizabeth. To the chosen and betrusted knights, citizens and burgesses, assembled in the high and supream court of Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament. 1646 (1646) Wing L2139; Thomason E359_17; Thomason E359_18; ESTC R9983 57,117 77 View Text
A58628 The laws and acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraign James VII by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith holden at Edinburgh the twenty third day of April 1685, by His Grace William Duke of Queensberry ..., His Majesties High Commissioner for holding this Parliament, by vertue of a commission under His Majesties great seal of this kingdom : with the special advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament / collected and extracted from the registers and records of Parliament, by George Viscount of Tarbet, Lord McLeod, and Castle-haven, &c. ...; Laws, etc. Scotland.; Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.; Scotland. Parliament. 1685 (1685) Wing S1252; ESTC R472631 57,189 47 View Text
A74038 Anno primo & secundo Philippi & Mariæ. Actes made at a Parliament, begon and holde[n] at Westminster, the. xii. daye of Nouember, in the fyrste and seconde yeare of the reigne of our soueraygne lorde, and lady Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, kinge [and] Quene of England, Fraunce, Naples, Ierusalem, and Ireland, defendours of the fayth, Princes of Spayne and Cycilie, Archedukes of Austria, dukes of Myllayn, Burgondie, and Braband, counties of Haspurge, Flau[n]ders and Tyroll, and there continued and kept to the dissolution of the same, beynge the. xvi. day of Ianuary then next ensuynge, were enacted as foloweth. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis·; Public General Acts. 1553-1555. 1-2 Philip and Mary England and Wales. Sovereign (1553-1558 : Mary I); Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598. 1555 (1555) STC 9447.8; ESTC S124844 59,117 65 View Text
A44243 Pleas of the crown, or, A brief but full account of whatsoever can be found relating to that subject by Sir Matthew Hale. Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676. 1678 (1678) Wing H253; ESTC R30719 59,149 256 View Text
A69830 A vindication of the Parliament of England, in answer to a book written by William Molyneux of Dublin, Esq., intituled, The case of Irelands being bound by acts of Parliament in England, stated by John Cary ... Cary, John, d. 1720? 1698 (1698) Wing C734; ESTC R22976 59,166 136 View Text
A70633 Murder will out, or, The King's letter justifying the Marquess of Antrim and declaring that what he did in the Irish rebellion was by direction from his royal father and mother, and for the service of the crown. Arlington, Henry Bennet, Earl of, 1618-1685.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Gregory XV, Pope, 1554-1623. 1698 (1698) Wing M3095A; ESTC R41829 59,276 102 View Text
A40710 The grand case of the present ministry whether they may lawfully declare and subscribe, as by the late Act of vniformity is required and the several cases, thence arising (more especially about the Covenant) are clearly stated and faithfully resolved / by the same indifferent hand ; with an addition to his former Cases of conscience, hereunto subjoyned. Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693. 1662 (1662) Wing F2505; ESTC R21218 59,550 206 View Text
A49316 The prerogative of the monarchs of Great Brittain asserted according to the antient laws of England. Also, A confutation of that false maxim, that royal authority is originally and radically in the people. By Bartholomew Lane, Esq; Lane, Bartholomew. 1684 (1684) Wing L330; ESTC R222011 59,818 160 View Text
A44620 How the members of the Church of England ought to behave themselves under a Roman Catholic king with reference to the test and penal laws in a letter to a friend / by a member of the same church. Member of the same church. 1687 (1687) Wing H2961; ESTC R6451 60,453 228 View Text
A36769 An argument delivered by Patrick Darcy, esquire by the expresse order of the House of Commons in the Parliament of Ireland, 9 iunii, 1641. Darcy, Patrick, 1598-1668. 1643 (1643) Wing D246; ESTC R17661 61,284 146 View Text
A26178 Reflections upon a treasonable opinion, industriously promoted, against signing the National association and the entring into it prov'd to be the duty of all subjects of this kingdom. Atwood, William, d. 1705? 1696 (1696) Wing A4179; ESTC R16726 61,345 70 View Text
A40719 A review of the grand case of the present ministry whether they may lawfully declare and subscribe as by the late act of uniformity is required? : in reply to a book entitled A short surveigh of the grand case, &c. : wherein all their objections against both the declarations are considered and answered / by the same hand. Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693. 1663 (1663) Wing F2514; ESTC R20121 61,527 240 View Text
A77860 Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation of the publick [brace]1. doctrine, 2. worship, [double brace] 3. rites and ceremonies, 4. church-government, and discipline, reputed to be (but indeed, not) established by law. Humbly offered to the serious consideration of this present Parliament. By divers ministers of sundry counties in England. Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665. 1660 (1660) Wing B5678; Thomason E764_4; ESTC R205206 61,780 69 View Text
A75403 An answer of the purchasers of the lands, late of Sir John Stawel, by act of Parliament, exposed to sale for his treason to a pamphlet, intituled, The humble remonstrance of Sir John Stawel: together with the answer of John Ashe Esquire, to divers scandals mentioned in that remonstrance. As also a petition and several reasons for establishment of publick sales; tendred by Wil. Lawrence Esq; one of the judges in Scotland. Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2. 1654 (1654) Wing A3300; Thomason E1072_3; ESTC R208226 62,646 64 View Text
A30679 Advice to the Commons within all His Majesties realms and dominions written by Jacob Bury, Esq. ... ; containing the perfect harmony, consent and agreement between divinity and law, in defence of the government established by law in church and state, and that kingly government is by divine right. Bury, Jacob. 1685 (1685) Wing B6212; ESTC R6090 62,727 80 View Text
A22993 Anno primo et secu[n]do Philippi & Mariæ actes made at a Parliament begon and holden at Westminster, the xij day of Noue[m]ber, in the fyrst and second year of the reigne of Our Soueraigne Lorde and Lady, Philippe and Marye by the grace of God, Kinge and Quene of England, Fraunce, Naples, Jerusalem, and Irelande, defendours of the faith, princes of Spayne & Sicile, archdukes of Austria, dukes of Millaine, Burgondie and Brabant, counties of Haspurge, Flaunders, and Tyrol, and there continued and kepte vntyll the dissolution of the same, beinge the xvj daye of January then next ensuing, were enacted as foloweth.; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598. 1555 (1555) STC 9448.3; ESTC S113142 63,051 69 View Text
A22992 Anno primo & secundo Philippi & Mariæ actes made at a Parliament, begon and holde[n] at Westminster, the xij. daye of Nouember, in the fyrste and seconde yeare of the reigne of our soueraygne lorde and lady Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, Kinge & Quene of England, Fraunce, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland, defendours of the fayth, princes of Spayne and Cycilie, archedukes of Austria, dukes of Myllayn, Burgondie, and Braband, counties of Haspurge, Flau[n]ders and Tyroll, and there continued and kept to the dissolution of the same, beynge the xvi. day of Januarye then next ensuynge, were enacted as foloweth.; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1553-1558 : Mary I) 1555 (1555) STC 9447.9; ESTC S1983 63,068 70 View Text
A29884 The case of allegiance to a king in possession Browne, Thomas, 1654?-1741. 1690 (1690) Wing B5183; ESTC R1675 63,404 76 View Text
A29172 The great point of succession discussed with a full and particular answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, A brief history of succession, &c. Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700. 1681 (1681) Wing B4191; ESTC R19501 63,508 40 View Text
A30455 Six papers by Gilbert Burnet. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1687 (1687) Wing B5912; ESTC R26572 63,527 69 View Text
A59336 The present state of England in relation to popery manifesting the absolute impossibility of introducing popery and arbitrary power into this kingdom : being a full confutation of all fears and apprehensions of the imagined dangers from thence, and particularly of a certain pamphlet, entituled, The character of a popish successor / by E. Settle. Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724. 1684 (1684) Wing S2711; ESTC R35168 63,695 38 View Text
A58639 The laws and acts made in the fifth session of the first Parliament of Our Most High and Dread Soveraign William, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith holden and begun at Edinburgh, May 9. 1695 by John Marquess of Tweeddale ... with the special advice and consent of the estates of Parliament / collected and extracted from the registers and records of Parliament, by George, Viscount of Tarbat ...; Laws, etc. Scotland.; Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.; Tweeddale, John Hay, Marquess of, 1626?-1697. 1695 (1695) Wing S1269; ESTC R40608 63,831 77 View Text
A51131 The case of Ireland's being bound by acts of Parliament in England stated by William Molyneux. Molyneux, William, 1656-1698. 1698 (1698) Wing M2402; ESTC R30063 64,004 194 View Text
A46779 Severall papers lately vvritten and published by Iudge Ienkins, prisoner in the Tower viz. 1. His vindication. 2. The armies indempnity [sic]: with a declaration, shewing, how every subject ought to be tryed for treasons, felonies, and all other capitall crimes. 3. Lex terræ. 4. A cordiall for the good people of London. 5. A discourse touching the incoveniences of a long continued Parliament. 6. An apologie for the army.; Severall papers lately written and published by Judge Jenkins, prisoner in the Tower. Jenkins, David, 1582-1663. 1647 (1647) Wing J608; ESTC R217036 64,480 98 View Text
A51956 The Church of England and the continuation of the ceremonies thereof vindicated from the calumnies of several late pamphlets, more particularly that entitled, The vanity, mischief, and danger of continuing ceremonies in the worship of God, subscribed by 1690 (1690) Wing M65; ESTC R4181 64,933 67 View Text
A91287 The subjection of all traytors, rebels, as well peers, as commons in Ireland, to the laws, statutes, and trials by juries of good and lawfull men of England, in the Kings Bench at Westminster, for treasons perpetuated by them in Ireland, or any foreign country out of the realm of England. Being an argument at law made in the Court of Kings Bench, Hil. 20 Caroli Regis, in the case of Connor Magwire, an Irish baron ... fully proving; that Irish peers, as well as commons may be lawfully tried in this court in England, by the statute of 35 H.8.c.2. for treasons committed by them in Ireland, by a Middlesex jury, and outed of a trial by Irish peers: which was accordingly adjudged, and he thereupon tried, condemned, executed as a traytor ... By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1658 (1658) Wing P4090; Thomason E945_5; ESTC R203350 65,819 94 View Text
A38261 The proceedings in the House of Commons, touching the impeachment of Edward, late Earl of Clarendon, Lord High-Chancellour of England, Anno 1667 with the many debates and speeches in the House, the impeachment exhibited against him, his petition in answer thereto : as also the several weighty arguments concerning the nature of treason, bribery, &c. by Serj. Maynard, Sir Ed. S., Sir T.L., Mr. Vaughan, Sir Rob. Howard, Mr. Hambden [sic], and other members of that Parliament : together with the articles of high-treason exhibited against the said Earl, by the Earl of Bristol in the House of Lords on the 10th of July, 1663 : with the opinion of all the learned judges therein. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.; Vaughan, John, Sir, 1603-1674.; Seymour, Edward, Sir, 1633-1708.; Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1681.; Hampden, Richard, 1631-1695.; Maynard, John, Sir, 1602-1690.; Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 1700 (1700) Wing E2683; ESTC R3660 65,855 176 View Text
A61544 A discourse concerning the illegality of the late ecclesiastical commission in answer to the vindication and defence of it : wherein the true notion of the legal supremacy is cleared, and an account is given of the nature, original, and mischief of the dispensing power. Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. 1689 (1689) Wing S5581; ESTC R24628 67,006 76 View Text
A80839 Berith Anti-Baal, or Zach. Croftons appearance before the prelate-justice of peace, vainly pretending to binde the covenant and covenanters to their good behaviour. By way of rejoynder to, and animadversion on Doctor John Gauden's reply or vindication of his analysis, from the (by him reputed) pitiful cavils and objections; but really proved powerful and convincing exceptions of Mr. Zach. Croftons Analepsis. / By the author of the Analepsis, and (not by the Dr observed) Analepsis anelephthe, to the continuing of St. Peter's bonds, and fastning his fetters against papal and prelatical power. Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672. 1661 (1661) Wing C6988; Thomason E1085_6; ESTC R208062 67,248 104 View Text
A59415 An account of the late establishment of Presbyterian-government by the Parliament of Scotland anno 1690 together with the methods by which it was settled, and the consequences of it : as also several publick acts, speeches, pleadings, and other matters of importance relating to the Church in that kingdom : to which is added a summary of the visitation of the universities there in a fifth letter from a gentleman at Edinburgh, to his friend at London. Sage, John, 1652-1711. 1693 (1693) Wing S284; ESTC R13590 68,884 110 View Text
A65817 The Leviathan found out, or, The answer to Mr. Hobbes's Leviathan in that which my Lord of Clarendon hath past over by John Whitehall ... Whitehall, John, fl. 1679-1685. 1679 (1679) Wing W1866; ESTC R5365 68,998 178 View Text
A26142 An enquiry into the power of dispensing with penal statutes together with some animadversions upon a book writ by Sir Edw. Herbert ... entituled, A short account of the authorities in law, upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales's case / by Sir Robert Atkyns ... Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709. 1689 (1689) Wing A4138; ESTC R22814 69,137 66 View Text
A26144 The power, jurisdiction and priviledge of Parliament and the antiquity of the House of Commons asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the attorney general against the Speaker of the House of Commons : as also A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the realm of England, occasion'd by the late commission in ecclesiastical causes / by Sir Robert Atkins, Knight ... Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709. 1689 (1689) Wing A4141; ESTC R16410 69,431 78 View Text
A54696 Ursa major & minor, or, A sober and impartial enquiry into those pretended fears and jealousies of popery and arbitrary power with some things offered to consideration touching His Majestie's league made with the King of France upon occasion of his wars with Holland and the United Provinces : in a letter written to a learned friend. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1681 (1681) Wing P2019A; Wing U141_CANCELLED; ESTC R23216 69,552 56 View Text
A77478 A review of the seditious pamphlet lately pnblished [sic] in Holland by Dr. Bramhell, pretended Bishop of London-Derry; entitled, His faire warning against the Scots discipline. In which, his malicious and most lying reports, to the great scandall of that government, are fully and clearly refuted. As also, the Solemne League and Covenant of the three nations justified and maintained. / By Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow, and one of the commissioners from the Church of Scotland, attending the King at the Hague. Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662. 1649 (1649) Wing B467; Thomason E563_1; ESTC R10643 69,798 84 View Text
A29489 A review of Doctor Bramble, late Bishop of Londenderry, his Faire warning against the Scotes disciplin by R.B.G. Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662. 1649 (1649) Wing B466; ESTC R10694 70,498 112 View Text
A50646 Some remarques upon a late popular piece of nonsence called Julian the apostate, &c. together, with a particular vindication of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, by some bold truths in answer to a great many impudent calumnies raised against him, by the foolish arguments, false reasonings and suppositions, imposed upon the publick from several scandalous and seditious pamphlets especially from one more notorious and generally virulent than the rest, sometime since published under the title of A Tory Plot, &c. / by a lover of truth, vertue, and justice. Meredith, Edward, 1648-1689? 1682 (1682) Wing M1784; ESTC R23540 71,436 69 View Text
A93927 The reading upon the statute of the thirteenth of Elizabeth, chapter VII. touching bankrupts, learnedly and amply expained, by John Stone of Gray's Inn, esquire. Stone, John, d. 1640. 1695 (1695) Wing S5730; ESTC R43936 72,205 137 View Text
A91243 A plea for the Lords: or, A short, yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peeres, and the hereditary just right of the lords and barons of this realme, to sit, vote and judge in the high Court of Parliament. Against the late seditious anti-Parliamentary printed petitions, libells and pamphlets of Anabaptists, Levellers, agitators, Lilburne, Overton, and their dangerous confederates, who endeavour the utter subversion both of parliaments, King and peers, to set up an arbitrary polarchy and anarchy of their own new-modelling. / By William Prynne Esquire, a well-wisher to both Houses of Parliament, and the republike; now exceedingly shaken and indangered in their very foundations. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1648 (1648) Wing P4032; Thomason E430_8; ESTC R204735 72,921 83 View Text
A52522 Wonderful predictions of Nostredamus, Grebner, David Pareus, and Antonius Torquatus wherein the grandeur of Their present Majesties, the happiness of England, and downfall of France and Rome, are plainly delineated : with a large preface, shewing, that the crown of England has been not obscurely foretold to Their Majesties William III and Mary, late Prince and Princess of Orange, and that the people of this ancient monarchy have duly contributed thereunto, in the present assembly of Lords and Commons, notwithstanding the objections of men and different extremes. Atwood, William, d. 1705?; Grebner, Ezekiel.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566.; Pareus, David, 1548-1622.; Torquato, Antonio, 15th cent. 1689 (1689) Wing N1401; ESTC R261 72,982 73 View Text
A45906 An Enquiry into the causes of the miscarriage of the Scots colony at Darien, or, An answer to a libel entituled, A defence of the Scots abdicating Darien submitted to the consideration of the good people of England. Ridpath, George, d. 1726. 1700 (1700) Wing I213; ESTC R12945 73,090 122 View Text
A44754 Some sober inspections made into carriage and consults of the late Long-Parliament whereby occasion is taken to speak of parliaments in former times, and of Magna Charta, with some reflexes upon government in general.; Som sober inspections made into the cariage and consults of the late Long Parlement Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1656 (1656) Wing H3117; ESTC R2660 73,993 193 View Text
A45252 The arguments of Sir Richard Hutton, Knight, one of the judges of the Common Pleas, and Sir George Croke, Knight, one of the judges of the Kings Bench together with the certificate of Sir John Denham, Knight, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, vpon a scire facias brought by the Kings Majesty in the Court of Exchequer against John Hampden, Esquire : as also, the severall votes of the Commons and Peeres in Parliament, and the orders of the Lords for the vacating of the judgement given against the said Mr. Hampden, and the vacating of the severall rolls in each severall court, wherein the judges extrajudiciall opinions in the cases made touching ship-money are entred. England and Wales. Court of Exchequer.; Hutton, Richard, Sir, 1561?-1639.; Croke, George, Sir, 1560-1642.; Denham, John, Sir, 1559-1639.; Hampden, John, 1594-1643, defendant.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1641 (1641) Wing H3842; ESTC R16237 74,278 200 View Text
A38477 The English Presbyterian and Independent reconciled Setting forth the small ground of difference between them both. An English gentleman, a well-willer to the peace of his country. 1656 (1656) Wing E3113A; ESTC R220208 74,553 124 View Text
A29573 An apologie of John, Earl of Bristol consisting of two tracts : in the first, he setteth down those motives and tyes of religion, oaths, laws, loyalty, and gratitude, which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy wars in England : in the second, he vindicateth his honour and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure, of being excepted from pardon or mercy, either in life or fortunes. Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654. 1657 (1657) Wing B4789; ESTC R9292 74,883 107 View Text
A91207 A legal vindication of the liberties of England, against illegal taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament, lately enforced on the people: or, Reasons assigned by William Prynne of Swainswick in the county of Sommerset, esquire, why he can neither in conscience, law, nor prudence, submit to the new illegal tax or contribution of ninety thousand pounds the month; imposed on the kingdom by a pretended Act of some Commons in (or rather out of) Parliament, April 7 1649. (when this was first penned and printed,) nor to the one hundred thousand pound per mensem, newly laid upon England, Scotland and Ireland, Jan. 26. 1659 by a fragment of the old Commons House, ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1660 (1660) Wing P3998; Thomason E772_4; ESTC R207282 74,956 90 View Text
A25426 The king's right of indulgence in spiritual matters, with the equity thereof, asserted by a person of honour, and eminent minister of state lately deceased. Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1688 (1688) Wing A3169; ESTC R6480 75,236 84 View Text
A86390 The libertie of the subject against the pretended power of impositions. Maintained by an argument in Parliament an[o]. 7[o]. Jacobi Regis. / By William Hakevvil of Lincolns Inne Esq. Hakewill, William, 1574-1655. 1641 (1641) Wing H210; Thomason E170_2; ESTC R9193 77,405 152 View Text
B01271 Anno quarto et quinto, Philippi & Mariæ. Actes made at a Parliament begon and holden at Westminster, the .xx daye of January, in the fourth and fift yeare of the reigne of oure soueraigne Lorde and Lady, Philippe and Marye by the grace of God, kinge and Quene of England, Spayne, Fraunce, both the Sicilles, Jerusalem, and Jrelande, defendours of the faith, archidukes of Austria, dukes of Burgondie, Millaine and Brabant, counties of Haspurge, Flaunders, and Tyrol, and there continued and kepte vntyll the vij. day of Marche, then next folowinge, and enacted as foloweth..; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598. 1558 (1558) STC 9457; ESTC S832 78,057 91 View Text
A80408 Redintegratio amoris, or A union of hearts, between the Kings most excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in Parliament, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his command; the Assembly, and every honest man that desires a sound and durable peace, accompanied with speedy justice and piety. By way of respective apologies, so far as Scripture and reason may be judges. / By John Cook of Grayes-Inne, Barrester. Cook, John, d. 1660. 1647 (1647) Wing C6026; Thomason E404_29; ESTC R201862 78,816 92 View Text
A80411 The vindication of the law: so far forth as scripture and right reason may be judge, and speedy justice (which exalts a nation) may be advanced. VVherein is declared what manner of persons Christian magistrates, judges, and lawyers ought to be. / By Iohn Cooke of Graies Inne, now chief justice of the province of Munster, 1652. Cook, John, d. 1660. 1652 (1652) Wing C6028; Thomason E662_9; ESTC R206788 78,991 98 View Text
A87520 The vvorks of that grave and learned lavvyer Iudge Ienkins, prisoner in Newgate. Upon divers statutes, concerning the liberty, and freedome of the subject. With a perfect table thereto annexed. Jenkins, David, 1582-1663. 1648 (1648) Wing J574; Thomason E1154_2; ESTC R20801 80,714 206 View Text
A56250 A political essay, or, Summary review of the kings and government of England since the Norman Conquest by W. P---y, Esq. Pudsey, William.; Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. 1698 (1698) Wing P4172; ESTC R19673 81,441 212 View Text
A66571 A discourse of monarchy more particularly of the imperial crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland according to the ancient, common, and statute-laws of the same : with a close from the whole as it relates to the succession of His Royal Highness James Duke of York. Wilson, John, 1626-1696. 1684 (1684) Wing W2921; ESTC R27078 81,745 288 View Text
A50542 Jus regium, or, The just, and solid foundations of monarchy in general, and more especially of the monarchy of Scotland : maintain'd against Buchannan, Naphthali, Dolman, Milton, &c. / by Sir George Mackenzie ... Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691. That the lawful successor cannot be debarr'd from succeeding to the crown. 1684 (1684) Wing M162; ESTC R39087 83,008 208 View Text
A44227 Vindiciæ Carolinæ, or, A defence of Eikon basilikē, the portraicture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings in reply to a book intituled Eikonoklastes, written by Mr. Milton, and lately re-printed at Amsterdam. Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.; Wilson, John, 1626-1696. 1692 (1692) Wing H2505; ESTC R13578 84,704 160 View Text
A67889 The vindication of Sr. John Stawells remonstrance, against a scurrilous pamphlet written by Mr. John Ash; entituled An answer to divers scandalls mentioned in the humble remonstrance of Sr. John Stawell. As also an answer to a petition of William Lawrence of Edenburgh, Esq; whereunto certain reasons are annexed, directed to the honourable the referrees of his highness most honourable council. With a conclusion humbly offered unto his highnesse the Lord Protector. / Written by Sr. John Stawell. Wherunto are annexed, a letter of Sir Anthony Irbyes, and a short reply of Sr. David Watkins relating unto some parts of the said pamphlet. Stawell, John, Sir, 1599-1662.; Irby, Anthony, Sir, d. 1682.; Watkins, David, Sir. 1655 (1655) Wing S5352; ESTC R208228 86,641 91 View Text
A61451 An apology for the ancient right and power of the bishops to sit and vote in parliaments ... with an answer to the reasons maintained by Dr. Burgesse and many others against the votes of bishops : a determination at Cambridge of the learned and reverend Dr. Davenant, B. of Salisbury, Englished : the speech in Parliament made by Dr. Williams, L. Archbishop of York, in defence of the bishops : two speeches spoken in the House of Lords by the Lord Viscount Newarke, 1641. Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665.; Davenant, John, ca. 1572-1641.; Williams, John, 1582-1650.; Newark, David Leslie, Baron, d. 1682. 1660 (1660) Wing S5446; ESTC R18087 87,157 146 View Text
A50551 Jus regium, or, The just and solid foundations of monarchy in general and more especially of the monarchy of Scotland, maintain'd against Buchannan, Naphtali, Dolman, Milton, &c. Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691. 1684 (1684) Wing M163; ESTC R945 87,343 224 View Text
A93763 The reason of the war, with the progress and accidents thereof. / Written by an English subject. VVherein also the most material passages of the two books printed at Oxford (in which His Majesties party do undertake to justifie their proceedings) are briefly examined; viz. The [brace] declaration, entituled, Tending to peace; relation of the passages at the meeting at Uxbridge. July 1. 1646. Imprimatur Na: Brent. Stafford, William, 1593-1684. 1646 (1646) Wing S5152; Thomason E350_8; ESTC R201041 87,456 156 View Text
A50359 A breviary of the history of the Parliament of England expressed in three parts, 1. The causes and beginnings of the civil war of England, 2. A short mention of the progress of that civil war, 3. A compendious relation of the original and progress of the second civil war / first written in Latine, & after into English by Thomas May. May, Thomas, 1595-1650. 1655 (1655) Wing M1396; ESTC R31201 87,485 222 View Text
A52965 Rawleigh redivivus, or, The life & death of the Right Honourable Anthony, late Earl of Shaftsbury humbly dedicated to the protesting lords / by Philanax Misopappas. Philanax Misopapas.; S. N. 1683 (1683) Wing N72; ESTC R3409 90,509 250 View Text
A26170 The history and reasons of the dependency of Ireland upon the imperial crown of the kingdom of England rectifying Mr. Molineux's state of The case of Ireland's being bound by acts of Parliament in England. Atwood, William, d. 1705? 1698 (1698) Wing A4172; ESTC R35293 90,551 225 View Text
A88244 Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. 1647 (1647) Wing L2172; Thomason E370_12; ESTC R201291 90,580 119 View Text
A67901 A review of the Covenant, wherein the originall, grounds, means, matter, and ends of it are examined: and out of the principles of the remonstrances, declarations, votes, orders, and ordinances of the prime covenanteers, or the firmer grounds of Scripture, law, and reason, disproved. Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658. 1645 (1645) Wing L371; ESTC R210023 90,934 119 View Text
A34962 Anti-Baal-Berith justified and Zech. Crofton tryed and cast in his appearance before the (so called) prelate justice of peace in an answer to his seditious pamphlet entituled, Berith-anti-Baal : wherein his anti-monarchial principals are made manifest and apparent, to deserve his just imprisonment : together with an answer and animadversion upon the holy-prophane league and covenant : wherein, according to their own words and ways of arguing, its proved to be null and invalid, and its notorious contrariety to former legal oathes, is in several particulars plainly demonstrated / by Robert Cressener ... Cressener, Robert. 1662 (1662) Wing C6888; ESTC R4964 91,100 91 View Text
A61705 Some remarks upon a late pamphlet, entituled, An answer to the Scots Presbyterian eloquence wherein the innocency of the Episcopal clergy is vindicated, and the constitution and government of our Church of Scotland defended, against the lies and calumnies of the Presbyterian pamphleters. Strachan, William.; Ridpath, George, d. 1726. Answer to the Scots Presbyterian eloquence. 1694 (1694) Wing S5776; ESTC R1954 92,648 108 View Text
A58710 The history of the affaires of Scotland from the restauration of King Charles the 2d. in the year 1660, and of the late great revolution in that kingdom : with a particular account of the extraordinary occurrences which hapned thereupon, and the transactions of the convention and Parliament to Midsomer, 1690 : with a full account of the settling of the church government there, together with the act at large for the establishing of it. T. S. 1690 (1690) Wing S164; ESTC R32344 93,166 272 View Text
A93123 The Kings supremacy asserted. Or A remonstrance of the Kings right against the pretended Parliament. By Robert Sheringham M.A. and Fellow of Gunvill, and Caius-Colledge in Cambridge Sheringham, Robert, 1602-1678. 1660 (1660) Wing S3237A; ESTC R231142 93,360 138 View Text
A67920 A discouerie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued, nor brought vnder obedience of the crowne of England, vntill the beginning of his Maiesties happie raigne; Discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626. 1612 (1612) STC 6348; ESTC S109372 93,412 291 View Text
A05354 A treatise tovvching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princess Marie, Queene of Scotland, and of the most noble king Iames, her Graces sonne, to the succession of the croune of England VVherein is conteined asvvell a genealogie of the competitors pretending title to the same croune: as a resolution of their obiections. Compiled and published before in latin, and after in Englishe, by the right reuerend father in God, Iohn Lesley, Byshop of Rosse. VVith an exhortation to the English and Scottish nations, for vniting of them selues in a true league of amitie.; Defence of the honour of the right highe, mightye and noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande and dowager of France. Selections Leslie, John, 1527-1596. 1584 (1584) STC 15507; ESTC S108494 94,307 147 View Text
A62675 An essay concerning the power of the magistrate, and the rights of mankind in matters of religion with some reasons in particular for the dissenters not being obliged to take the Sacramental Test but in their own churches, and for a general naturalization : together with a postscript in answer to the Letter to a convocation-man. Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733. 1697 (1697) Wing T1302; ESTC R4528 95,152 210 View Text
A30965 The speeches, discourses, and prayers, of Col. John Barkstead, Col. John Okey, and Mr. Miles Corbet, upon the 19th of April being the day of their suffering at Tyburn : together with an account of the occasion and manner of their taking in Holland : as also of their several occasional speeches, discourses, and letters, both before, and in the time of their late imprisonment : faithfully and impartially collected for a general satisfaction.; Selections. 1662 Barkstead, John, d. 1662.; Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662. 1662 (1662) Wing B817; ESTC R22773 95,595 102 View Text