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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83906	An order of the Lords assembled in Parliament for the due putting in execution of the severall statutes made against counterfeiting of the Kings coyne, or the coyne of any other kingdome, made currant within this realme and also against clipping, filing, rounding, washing, or litening any of the severall coynes aforesaid. Die Sabbathi, 13. Martii. 1646.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1647 (1647)	Wing E2834; Thomason 669.f.9[82]; ESTC R212321	792	1
B02944	Anno Regni Jacobi II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the nineteenth day of May, Anno Dom. 1685, in the first year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign lord James, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, defender of the faith, &c.	England and Wales. Parliament	1685 (1685)	Wing E1074AC; ESTC R175026	1,146	5
B06626	By the King, a proclamation		1700 (1700)	Wing W2449; ESTC R227759	1,210	3
A80364	Considerations on the bill depending, for preventing occasional conformity humbly offered by the people called Quakers.		1695 (1695)	Wing C5912aA; ESTC R229791	1,217	4
A22394	By the King a proclamation against imbezelling of armour, munition, and victuall, and other military prouisions.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1625 (1625)	STC 8811; ESTC S122685	1,244	2
B31921	By the King, a proclamation whereas His Majesty hath been informed that great numbers of papists and other disaffected persons, who disown His Majesties government, have lately resorted to and assembled in the cities of London and Westminster ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.	1699 (1699)	Wing W2445	1,271	2
A76794	The case of Capt. John Blackvvell, concerning several matters objected against him	Blackwell, John, fl. 1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing B3092A; ESTC R232602	1,296	7
A46104	Whereas by a clause in the act intituled, an Act for Explaining of Some Doubts Arising upon an Act, intituled, an Act for the Better Execution of His Majesties Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Ormonde.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1661-1669 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1667 (1667)	Wing I715; ESTC R36825	1,333	2
A79292	By the King. A proclamation concerning His Majesties coronation pardon	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3252; Thomason 669.f.27[12]; ESTC R210265	1,351	1
A45998	VVilliam Idell obtained his Majesties Order in Council in consideration of his service in retaking his ship in the bay of Cadiz from the Dutch, and his great expence in attending to receive his Majesties reward, his Majesty in Council did order the said William Idell should have the office of registring sales, pawns and broaks, bought and sold in London and suburbs thereof, in lieu and recompence thereof, and referred the same to the Attorney General, who made his report as follows, ...	Jones, William, Sir, 1631-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing I32A; ESTC R216438	1,451	2
A39494	By the Lords Justices, a proclamation whereas there was an act made the last session of Parliament, intituted, an Act to Enforce the Act for the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen ...	England and Wales. Lords Justices.	1697 (1697)	Wing E940; ESTC R39445	1,476	1
A84504	At the court at Whitehall, March 6, 1664. Present, the King's Most Excellent Majesty ... / It was ordered by His Majesty in Council, that an order this day read and approved at the board, for the dispensing for some time with certain clauses of several acts concerning trade, shipping and navigation, be forthwith printed and published. John Nicholas.	England and Wales. Privy Council.; Nicholas, John, 17th cent.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1665 (1665)	Wing E815A; ESTC R228811	1,673	6
B01905	The case of the hackney-coachmen		1695 (1695)	Wing C1086; ESTC R220859	1,680	4
B05463	A proclamation, against penny-weddings	Scotland. Privy Council.	1687 (1687)	Wing S1596; ESTC R233627	1,711	1
A39412	At the court at White-hall the 22th of March, 1664, present the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... whereas His Majesty by and with the advice of his Privy Council hath dispensed with certain clauses of several acts, concerning trade, shipping and navigation ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1664 (1664)	Wing E804; ESTC R39421	1,731	1
A70017	At the court at Whitehall, the tenth of May, 1672 present the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1672 (1672)	Wing E805; ESTC R206907	1,758	4
A72823	To the honorable assembly of the Commons house of Parliament, and to the committees for grieuances of the same house: the answere of the master, wardens and fellowship of woodmongers, London, to the complaint of some few wharfingers and others, whereof, some are forraine, and some free of the same citie	Company of Woodmongers (London, England)	1621 (1621)	STC 16787.12; ESTC S125119	1,781	1
A42918	The case of Francis Godolphin Esq nephew and heir and one of the administrators of Sir Will. Godolphin, kt. deceased, in reference to the bill depending before the Honourable House of Commons for the better discovery of all lands and other revenues given to superstitious uses, for applying the same to the use of Greenwich Hospital.	Godolphin, Francis. R.B. (Francis Richard Borrum) b. 1903; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1698 (1698)	Wing G941A; ESTC R27383	1,802	2
A46880	[The Manifesto of near 150 Knights and eminent merchants and citizens of London against the Jews now in England] [being a brief account of the Jews case (which is now become national) in relation to the customs, &c. / humbly presented to the King and Parliament by Samuel Hayne, Gent., sometime surveyor for the customs, and for the Act of Navigation in the counties of Devon and Cornwal]		1697 (1697)	Wing J740; ESTC R31161	1,911	1
A46581	A proclamation inhibiting all persons after the four and twentieth day of June next to use the trade of a pedlar or petty chapman, unless they be licensed according to a course lately taken to us in that behalf James R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1686 (1686)	Wing J361; ESTC R21461	1,945	1
B10280	The case of the Right Honourable Henrietta Maria, Lady Wentworth, daughter and heir of Thomas Lord Wentworth, and grandchild and heir of Thomas Earl of Cleveland, an infant in reference to the bill presented to the Honourable House of Commons, for giving the Barons of His Majesties Exchequer, a further power extrajudicially to settle the said Earls estate.		1675 (1675)	Wing W1356B; ESTC R223210	1,947	1
A31122	The case of the assignees of the goldsmiths, for their interest granted to be paid out of the hereditary revenue of excise		1689 (1689)	Wing C1015; ESTC R220036	1,966	1
A32575	By the King, a proclamation for the preservation of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, and of the works made for the dreining of the same	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1662 (1662)	Wing C3499; ESTC R33279	1,978	3
A66273	By the King and Queen, a proclamation concerning papists and other disaffected persons	England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary); Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702.	1691 (1691)	Wing W2559; ESTC R37259	1,985	1
A69303	A proclamation ordeined and made by the kinges highnes with the aduise of his most honourable counsaile, the .xxi. daye of Maye, in the .xxxvi. yere of his maiesties reygne, lymyttyng howe and at what pryces beefe mutton veale porke wyldefoule and other kyndes of vitailes shalbe solde.; Proclamations. 1544-05-21	England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)	1544 (1544)	STC 7805; ESTC S109231	1,992	1
A46573	A proclamation for the careful custody and well ordering of the new river brought from Chadwell and Amwell to the north parts of the city of London James R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1686 (1686)	Wing J352; ESTC R18615	1,995	1
A35622	The Case of many coachmen in London and Westminster and within the weekly bills of mortality, licensed according to the Act for Licensing Hackney-Coaches, but yet turn'd out by the present commissioners.		1670 (1670)	Wing C940; ESTC R40310	2,038	1
A52197	Acts and laws, passed by the great and general court or assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England begun at Boston, the thirty-first day of May, 1693, and continued by adjournment, unto Thursday the sixth day of July following : being the second sessions.; Laws, etc.	Massachusetts.	1693 (1693)	Wing M952; ESTC R235719	2,102	5
A46563	A proclamation for putting in execution the additional act for improvement of tillage James R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1687 (1687)	Wing J340; ESTC R15717	2,108	1
A32385	A proclamation concerning the granting of licenses for selling and retailing of wines	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3268; ESTC R10168	2,272	3
A25642	Answers to the reasons given against the bill for erecting courts of conscience within the weekly bills of mortality		1675 (1675)	Wing A3471B; ESTC R213490	2,467	1
B31955	By the King, a proclamation, for the speedy and effectual putting in execution the act of Parliament for regulating the measures and prices of coals. William R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.	1695 (1695)	Wing W2475	2,528	1
A46555	A proclamation for enforcing the due execution of the acts of Parliament for erecting the post-office, and for settling the profits thereof upon us, our heirs and successors James R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing J333; ESTC R9777	2,717	1
A65542	The death, burial, and resurrection of the act of the 35th of Eliz. entituled, An act to retain the Queens Majesties subjects in their due obedience being an answer to a late lying pamphlet, entituled The life and death of the 35th of Eliz.	E. W.	1681 (1681)	Wing W15; ESTC R7028	2,757	4
A56050	Proposals relating to Little Yarmouth The manner of the scituation [sic] of Great Yarmouth, and of its trade and building.		1670 (1670)	Wing P3769A; ESTC R222724	2,848	1
A04070	The rates of marchandizes as they are set downe in the Booke of rates for the custome and subsidie of poundage, and for the custome and subsidie of cloathes, the same being appointed by his Maiestie, and confirmed by the Lorde deputye and Councell, and ordered to be published in print, for the direction of such as it may concerne in this kingdome of Ireland.; Book of rates.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1608 (1608)	STC 14128.3; ESTC S113285	2,870	16
A66202	By the King, a proclamation whereas it hath been represented unto His Majesty that divers frauds and abuses have been and are committed by collectors and others concerned in assessing, collecting, and paying of the duties granted unto His Majesty ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2453; ESTC R37222	2,944	1
A80981	By the Protector. A Proclamation declaring the right of the Fellowship and Company of English Merchants for Discovering of New Trades (commonly called the Muscovia Company) to the sole fishing for whales upon the coasts of Green-land and Chery-Island, and for restraining and prohibiting of all others.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell)	1658 (1658)	Wing C7146; Thomason 669.f.20[78]; ESTC R212244	3,015	2
A69357	These be to require and charge you, and euery of you, in the Quenes maiesties name and behalf by vertue and authority of her graces commissyon to vs directed, that you be and personally appeare before vs, her maiesties commissioners at [blank] the [blank] next comming bringinge with you, then & there to deliuer vnto us, to her highnesse vse, fayre wrytten in parchment vnder youre signes and seales, a true and perfect certificat and answer, of al and euery article and thing hereafter ensuing, so as you wil verefy the same to be true at your comming by your corporal othes, and answer the contrary at all times hereafter at your perils.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I); Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1565 (1565)	STC 9185; ESTC S114725	3,032	1
A79238	A great fight between the Kings forces under the command of his Highnesse the Prince of VVales, and the Parliaments forces, neer the Downs. With the number of killed and taken, the great execution done by key-shot from the Kings ships upon the Parliamenteers and the particulars of the fight between the Lord Hopton, and Col. Rich. And the Lord Cravens declaration concerning his joyning with the Prince. Likewise, the Princes propostions touching the Kings Majesty. Signed, Charles. P. And commanded to be forthwith printed and published.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1648 (1648)	Wing C3087A; Thomason E457_9; ESTC R204976	3,159	8
A10905	To the right reuerend and right honorable the Lords spirituall and temporall assembled in vpper House of this most high and honorable session of Parliament an abstract of the grieuances and oppressions done by Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight, and his agents, to Griswell Rogers, widow, and her poore orphan.	Rogers, Griswell.	1624 (1624)	STC 21176.5; ESTC S3369	3,264	1
A25737	[London] ss [to John Aston and John ... appointed and approved collectors for Grub Street & Hore Street ... in the parish of St. Giles without Cripple Gate] in the [city] aforesaid of the several rates, duties and sums of money, granted to His Majesty King William III by virtue of an act of Parliament made in the sixth and seventh year of His said Majesty's reign, inituted, An Act for Granting to His Majesty Certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births and Burials, and upon Batchlors and Widowers, for the Terms of Five Years, for Carrying on the War against France with Vigour.		1695 (1695)	Wing A3589; ESTC R38506	3,345	1
A66195	By the King, a proclamation. William R. Whereas in and by one Act made and passed in the last session of Parliament (intituled, An Act for granting an aid to His Majesty, as well by a land tax, as by several subsidies and other duties payable for one year) ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing W2441; ESTC R221026	3,450	2
A88057	The letters, commissions and other papers which were communicated to the Common-Councel of the City of London, by a committee of the Honorable House of Commons, on Monday, July 31. 1648. Die Martis, 2 Augusti, 1648. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the said letters be forthwith printed ... H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D Com.	T. H.; W. G.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Green, Richard, fl. 1648.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1648 (1648)	Wing L1776; Thomason E456_31; ESTC R202727	3,740	15
A39393	Encouragements to builders and planters of Little Yarmouth		1668 (1668)	Wing E725; ESTC R215004	3,945	1
A48998	Commune Concilium tentum in Camera Guildhall civitas London, die Mercurii, vicesimo tertio die Octobris, anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo septuagesimo secundo ... an Act for the Weighing of Goods at the King's Beam.; Act for the Weighing of Goods at the King's Beam	City of London (England).	1672 (1672)	Wing L2854K; ESTC R39348	4,082	3
A82492	An additional Act for burying in woollen; Public General Acts. 1680-1681. 32 Car.II.c.1-2 + Table	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Public General Acts. 1680-1681. 32 Car.II.c.1.; England and Wales. Public General Acts. 1680-1681. 32 Car.II.c.2.; England and Wales. Public General Acts. 1680-1681. 32 Car.II. Table.	1685 (1685)	Wing E1168D; ESTC R231761	4,134	12
A53028	Acts made the 5th Assembly, 5th sessions beginning the 25th of March, 1697, and ending the 22th day of April following, anno regni Regis Gulielmi Tertij, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, nono.; Laws, etc.	New York (State); New York State. General Assembly.	1697 (1697)	Wing N827; ESTC R4809	4,408	6
B03307	At the court of Whitehall the first of May, 1674. Present, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ...	England and Wales. Parliament.; Great Britain. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II).	1674 (1674)	Wing E826A; ESTC R174981	4,682	1
A35625	The case of many thousands of His Majesty's subjects who for valuable considerations are entituled, under the letters patents of King Charles the second, to annual sums out of the hereditary revenue of excise.		1700 (1699-1700?)	Wing C946; ESTC R221498	4,789	1
A13054	A recital of Stow's collection concerning the rise, profi[ta]bleness, and continuance of the court of requests, or court of conscience in the city of London: together w[it]h the Act of Parliament of 3 Iacobi Regis, for establishing and confirmation of the same	Stow, John, 1525?-1605.	1640 (1640)	STC 23346; ESTC S113495	4,811	1
A81270	The case of Daniel Hoar, merchant, Alderman of (and one of His Majesties justices of the peace for) the town of Kingston upon Hull.		1680 (1680)	Wing C901D; ESTC R175659	4,948	5
A74400	An act for regulating the making of stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich. Die Jovis, 14 Novembr. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E1061_29; ESTC R209270	4,986	11
A65680	A justification of the paper, entituled, A short history of the life and death of the act made in the 35th of Eliz. Cap. I, &c. containing some observations on that part of the Gazett (published 21th of April last) which asserts the contrary : wherein it doth plainly appear (notwithstanding what is therein alledged) that the said act of the 35th of Eliz. and the Conventicle Act of the 16th of the King, are not in being, nor hath the force of a law / by the same author.	Whitaker, Edward.	1681 (1681)	Wing W1703; ESTC R8906	5,298	8
A74280	Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Decimo Octavo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November, Anno Dom. 1640. in the 16. yeer of the reign of ... Lord Charles ...; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1642 (1642)	Thomason E1059_36	5,322	11
B03043	Anno regni Caroli Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November, Anno Dom. 1640. In the 16. yeer of the reign of our most gracious soveraign Lord, Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. A subsidie granted to the King of tonnage, poundage, and other sums of money, payable upon merchandize, exported and imported.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2310B; ESTC R176151	5,338	11
A22535	Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all and singular mayors, recorders, customers, comptrollers ... of and within all and singular the port townes ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1630 (1630)	STC 8968; ESTC S3769	5,500	1
A63488	A True copy of the instrument of association that the Protestants of England entred into, in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth, against a popish conspiracy with an act made upon the same, for the security of the Queen's Most Royal Person.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1695 (1695)	Wing T2644; ESTC R222385	5,563	9
A96165	Weighty queries relating to the past, present, and future state of Ireland calculated for the present and future benefit of that unhappy kingdom. And tendred to the serious consideration of all who are willing to be inform'd how it became unhappy, and how it may yet be made happy again to posterity.		1691 (1691)	Wing W1258A; ESTC R230818	5,616	4
A65684	A short history of the life and death of the act made the 35th of Elizabeth, cap. I intituled, An act to retain the Queen's Majesties subjects in their due obedience : as also, the act commonly called the Conventicle act ... : wherin it plainly appears by the several records, that both the said acts are expired, and have no force in law / ... by E.W.	Whitaker, Edward.	1681 (1681)	Wing W1707; ESTC R9671	5,695	12
A49020	Com' Concil' tent' in Camera Guihald civitat' London' die Veneris septimo die Junij anno Dom' 1700 ... it is ordered, that the act of Common Council made in the mayoralty of Sir Robert Ducy Knight and Baronet, relating to the choice, election and confirmation of sheriffs for this city and county of Middlesex ...	City of London (England).	1700 (1700)	Wing L2861L; ESTC R39363	5,801	14
B03321	Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ regis et reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ primo. On the sixteenth day of December, anno Dom. 1689. In the first year of their Majesties reign, this act passed the royal assent.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1695 (1695)	Wing E987A; ESTC R176267	5,835	18
A45966	An act for avoiding of vexatious delays, caused by removing actions and sutes out of inferior courts ; An act for redress of certain abuses, in making pewter and brass	Ireland.	1697 (1697)	Wing I300; ESTC R39281	6,098	13
B09017	Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, regis & reginæ Anglia, Scotia, Francia & Hibernia, tertio at the Parliament begun at Westminster the twentieth day of March, Anno Dom. 1689, in the second year of the reign of our sovereign Lord and Lady, William and Mary by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king and queen, defenders of the faith, &c., and from thence continued by several prorogations and adjournments to the two and twentieth day of October, 1691 being the third session of this present parliament.	England and Wales. Laws, statutes, etc.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary).	1691 (1691)	Wing E1037E; ESTC R223324	6,170	20
A49007	An act of Common-Councill of the city of London (made in the first and second years of the reign of Philip & Mary) for retrenching of the expences of the Lord Mayor & sheriffs, &c. published with additional reasons for putting the said act in present execution and now offered to the consideration of all good citizens, by some well-wishers of the present and future prosperity of the said city ; presented to my Lord-Mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1680 (1680)	Wing L2858A; ESTC R920	6,679	8
A47475	The King's power in ecclesiastical matters truly stated		1688 (1688)	Wing K605; ESTC R30485	6,852	12
B01854	An illegal way to get another mans estate ... by William Ball.	Ball, William.; Standen, William, fl. 1653.; Bullock, Edward.	1653 (1653)	Wing B590; ESTC R170436	6,984	16
A45979	An act for the better securing the government by disarming papists	Ireland.	1695 (1695)	Wing I312; ESTC R475577	7,177	16
A74511	An ordinance for better amending and keeping in repair the common high-waies within this nation. Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State.	1654 (1654)	Thomason E1063_26; ESTC R209578	7,562	19
B05153	Act against false musters and free quarters, and anent due paying of their Majesties forces. At Edinburgh, the ninth of May 1693.	Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates.	1693 (1693)	Wing S1025B; ESTC R183849	7,853	6
A39993	Forresta de Windsor, in Com. Surrey the meers, meets, limits, and bounds of the Forrest of Windsor, in the county of Surrey, as the same are found, set out, limited and bounded by inquisition : taken by vertue of His Majesties Commission in pursuance of one act made in the Parliament ... in the sixteenth year of the reign of our soveraign Lord King Charles, intituled An act for the certainty of forrests and of the meers, meets, limits, and bounds of forrests as the same now remaine upon the record in His Majesties high court of chancery.	England and Wales. Act for the certainty of forrests.	1646 (1646)	Wing F1588B; ESTC R37855	7,969	18
A82383	Anno regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, septimo & octavo. At the parliament begun at Westminster the two and twentieth day of November, anno Dom. 1695 In the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign lord William the third, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.; Public General Acts. 1695-1696 7 & 8 Gul.III.c.32	England and Wales.	1696 (1696)	Wing E1033D; ESTC R232779	7,996	11
B01916	The case of the merchants of London, in reference to the arrears of excise, stated and examined.		1662 (1662)	Wing C1116A; ESTC R171014	8,051	28
A45984	An act for the more easy, and speedy securing, and recovery of small debts	Ireland.	1697 (1697)	Wing I317; ESTC R39289	9,074	19
A58452	A relation of the proceedings at Charter-House, upon occasion of King James the II, his presenting a Papist to be admitted into that hospital, in vertue of His letters dispensatory		1689 (1689)	Wing R857; ESTC R9649	9,340	17
A61989	The Sur-rejoinder of Mr. Attorney General to the rejoinder made on the behalf of the charter of the city of London	England and Wales. Attorney-General (1681-1687 : Sawyer); Sawyer, Robert, Sir, 1633-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing S6195; ESTC R769	9,668	22
A25624	An answer to the severall petitions of late exhibited to the High Court of Parliament and to His Excellency the Lord General Cromwell by the poor husband-men, farmers and tenants in severall counties of England for the taking away of tithes paid to priests and impropriators.		1652 (1652)	Wing A3446A; ESTC R25887	9,695	27
A53440	A proclamation concerning a cessation of armes agreed and concluded on at Siggings-towne, in the county of Kildare, the fifteenth day of September, in the ninteenth [sic] yeer of His Majesties raigne, by and between Iames Marques of Ormonde, Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties Army, in the kingdom of Ireland, for & in the name of our Gratious [sic] Soveraigne Lord Charles ... bearing date at Dublin the last of August, in the said ninteenth [sic] year of His Majesties raigne, of the one party, and Donogh Viscount Muskery, Sir Lucas Dillon, Knight, Nicholas Plunkett, Esquire, Sir Robert Talbot, Baronet, Sir Richard Barnewell, Baronet Torlogh ô Neale, Geffrey Browne, Ever Mac-Gennis, & Iohn Walsh, Esquires ... to treat and conclude with the said Marques for a cessation of armes by vertue of an authority given unto them bearing date at Cahsell, the 7 day of September, in the said ninteenth [sic] yeare of His Majesties raigne, of the other party : whereunto is added an instrument touching the manner of payment of 30800 pound sterling by severall payments.	Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.	1643 (1643)	Wing O457_VARIANT; ESTC R223502	10,115	22
A53441	A proclamation concerning a cessation of arms agreed and concluded on at Siggingstown, in the county of Kildare, the fifteenth day of September, in the nineteenth yeer of His Majesties raign, by and between James Marquesse of Ormonde Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties army in the Kingdom of Ireland, for and in the name our gracious Soveraign Lord Charles ... authorized by His Majesties Roman Catholique subjects, of whose party they are, and now in the arms in the said kingdom &c : to treat and conclude with the said marquesse for a cessation of arms by vertue of an authority given unto them, bearing date at Cashel, the seventh day of September, in the said nineteenth yeer of His Majesties raign, of the other party : whereunto is added an instrument touching the manner of payment of 30800 pounds sterling by severall payments.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1643 (1643)	Wing O457; ESTC R236873	10,151	14
A52926	Acts and laws, passed by the general Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England, begun and held at Portsmouth, on Monday the seventh day of August, 1699, anno regni Gulielmi Tertii, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regis undecimo; Laws, etc.	New Hampshire.; New Hampshire. General Assembly.	1699 (1699)	Wing N645; ESTC R12151	10,157	9
A87323	A proclamation concerning a cessation of arms. Agreed and concluded on at Siggings-town, in the county of Kildare, the fifteenth day of September, in the nineteenth yeer of His Majesties raign, by and between James Marquesse of Ormonde, Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties army in the Kingdom of Ireland, for and in the name our gracious Soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. By vertue of His Majesties Commission bearing date at Dublin the last of August, in the said nineteenth year of His Majesties Raign, of the one party. And Donogh Viscount Muskerry, Sir Lucas Dillon Knight; Nicholas Plunket Esquire; Sir Robert Talbot Baronet; Sir Richard Barnwell Baronet; Torlogh O Neale, Geoffrey Brown, Ever Mac-Gennis and John Walsh, Esquires; authorized by His Majesties Roman Catholique subjects, ... To treat and conclude with the said marquesse for a cessation of arms, by vertue of an authority given unto them, bearing date at Cashel, the seventh day of September, in the said nineteenth yeer of His Majesties raign, of the other party. Whereunto is added, an instrument touching the manner of payment of 30800 pounds sterling by severall payments. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this proclamation be forthwith printed: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1643 (1643)	Wing I605; Thomason E71_29; ESTC R32216	10,158	12
B03756	To his highness Oliver Lord Protector of the Comon-wealth [sic] of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Sir Job Harby knight.	Harby, Job, Sir.; England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell)	1658 (1658)	Wing H681; ESTC R177897	10,313	20
B03316	The several statutes in force for the observation of Lent: and fish-dayes, at all other times of the year With full and ready notes in the margent, shewing the effect in brief. / Published by a well-wisher to peace, for the information of all persons subject to the violation of the said laws.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing E923C; ESTC R207986	10,809	15
B14599	Anno. IIII. Henrici octaui. These be the statutes established in diuerse Parliamentes for the mistery of ye pewterers of London and concerninge the searche of pewter, brasse, and vntrue beames [and] weightes, [and] for deceiuable hawkers, with diverse other orders [and] redresses to be had in the saide mystery, with the renewinge [and?] confirminge of the same statutes.; Public General Acts. Selections: Pewterers.	England and Wales.; Elyot, Thomas, Maister.; Nogey, Thomas.; Hawke, Thomas.	1589 (1589)	STC 16782; ESTC S100296	11,299	24
A06312	Anno quarto Henrici octaui. These be the statutes established in diuers Parlyaments, for the mistery of the pewterers of London and concerning the search of pewter, brasse, and vntrue beames and weights, and for deceiuable hawkers, with diuers other orders and redresses to be had in the sayd mystery, with the renewing and confirming of the same statutes,; Public General Acts. Selections: Pewterers.	England and Wales.; Wood, Thomas, fl. 1593.; Mayor, William.; Hyll, Walter.	1593 (1593)	STC 16783; ESTC S107729	11,348	24
A74040	Anno primo Reginæ Elizabethe At the parliament begonne at Westmynster, the xxiii. of January in the fyrste yeare of the reigne of oure Soueraigne Ladye, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of England, Fraunce and Ireland, Quene, defendoure of the faithe, [et]c. And there proroged tyll the. xxv. of the same moneth, and then and there holden, kept, and continued vntill the dissolution of the same, beyng the eyght day of May, then nexte ensuynge, were enacted as foloweth.; Public General Acts. 1559-1560. 1 Elizabeth I	England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I); Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1559 (1559)	STC 9459; ESTC S124846	11,386	16
A22881	Anno regni Regis Henrici VIII quinto statuta ...; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1515 (1515)	STC 9362.3; ESTC S409	11,396	14
A66713	Observations upon the oath enacted I. Eliz. commonly called the oath of supremacy for the better satisfaction of those that may finde themselves concerned therein.	Winter, John, Sir, 1600?-1673?	1662 (1662)	Wing W3081; ESTC R11523	11,628	20
A88189	The free-mans freedom vindicated. Or A true relation of the cause and manner of Lievt. Col. Iohn Lilburns present imprisonment in Newgate, being thereunto arbitrarily and illegally committed, by the House of Peeres, Iune 11. 1646. for his delivering in, at their open barre, under his hand and seal, his protestation, against their incroaching upon the common liberties of all the commons of England, in endeavouring to try him, a commoner of England, in a criminall cause, contrary to the expresse tenour and forme of the 29. chap. of the great charter of England, and for making his legall and iust appeal to his competent, propper and legal tryers and judges, the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled.; Free-mans freedome vindicated.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2111; Thomason E341_12; ESTC R200906	12,654	12
A53029	The charter of the city of New-York; Charter (1686)	New York (N.Y.).; Limerick, Thomas Dongan, Earl of, 1634-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing N828; ESTC W18936	13,186	11
A43096	A narrative, being a true relation of what discourse passed between Dr. Hawkins and Edward Fitz-Harys, Esq., late prisoner in the tower with the manner of taking his confession.	Hawkins, Francis, 1628-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1173; ESTC R569	13,856	13
A94132	Suttons hospitall: with the names of sixteen mannors, many thousand acres of land, meadow, pasture, and woods; with the rents and hereditaments thereunto belonging: the governours therof, and number of schollers and others that are maintained therewith. As also, the last will and testament of Thomas Sutton Esquire, founder of the said hospitall: with the perticular summes by him bequeathed, for repairing the high-wayes of severall parts of this kingdom for ever, and what he gave to the poor of severall parishes, and other charitable uses amounting to above 20000. pounds. Wherein, many thousands at this day are intressed; and the knowledge and example hereof very usefull for all sorts of people. The copie hereof was taken out of the Prerogative Court; and is printed by the originall, according to order.	Sutton, Thomas, 1532-1611.	1646 (1646)	Wing S6214; Thomason E344_7; ESTC R200955	15,845	22
A18506	The Charterhouse with the last vvill and testament of Thomas Sutton Esquire. Taken out of the Prerogatiue Court, according to the true originall.	Sutton, Thomas, 1532-1611. aut	1614 (1614)	STC 5056; ESTC S107783	15,930	54
A66230	A charter of regulations granted to the East-India Company by Their sacred Majesties King William and Queen Mary, under the Great Seal of England, Dated the 11th. of November, 1693. in the 5th. year of Their Majesties reign	England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)	1693 (1693)	Wing W2498A; ESTC R219989	16,063	11
A47466	King William's toleration being an explanation of that liberty of religion, which may be expected from His Majesty's declaration, with a bill for comprehension & indulgence, drawn up in order to an act of Parliament.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Nottingham, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1621-1682.	1689 (1689)	Wing K580; ESTC R22778	16,192	20
A25721	An appendix to the queries upon the 25th of Hen. VIII, Cap. 21 containing some further considerations in behalf of the late illegally ejected officers of the Royal Hospital of St. Thomas Southwark, chiefly grounded upon certain passages in the grant of King Edward VI to the mayor and commonalty of the city of London : wherein the royal perogative as to the visitation and regulation of that and other hospitals is vindicated and asserted : and the late regulations in the time of King Charles II are more particularly consider'd and defended.		1690 (1690)	Wing A3576; ESTC R25889	16,253	17
A49305	An appeal to the conscience of a fanatick shewing that the King of England, by the fundamental laws of it, is as absolute and independent a monarch as any of the kings mentioned in Scripture, and consequently, as free as any of them from any humane coactive power to punish, censure, or dethrone him : whereunto is added, a short view of the laws both foreign and domestick, against seditious conventicles / by a barrister at law.	Lane, Bartholomew.	1684 (1684)	Wing L328; ESTC R10926	17,115	31
A92198	A proposal for supplying His Majesty with twelve hundred thousand pounds, by mending the coin, and yet preserve the ancient standard of the kingdom. / By a Gentleman.	L. R., gentleman.	1695 (1695)	Wing R41; ESTC R233588	17,160	24
A39441	An Abridgement of the statutes made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second alphabetically digested under apt titles and heads for the ready finding out of the matter.	England and Wales. Laws, etc.	1661 (1661)	Wing E860; ESTC R6329	18,777	46
A88083	Erastus Junior. Or, A fatal blovv to the clergies pretensions to divine right. In a solid demonstration, by principles, forms of ordination, canon-laws, acts and ordinances of Parliament, and other publique acts, instruments, records, and proceedings, owned by themselves, that no bishop, nor minister, (prelatical, or Presbyterian) nor presbytery (classical, or national) hath any right or authority to preach, ... in this nation, from Christ, but onely from the Parliament. In two parts: the one demonstrating it to an episcopal, the other to a Presbyterian minister. By Josiah Web, Gent. a serious detester of the dregs of the Antichristian hierarchy yet remaining among us.	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1831; Thomason E1010_11; ESTC R202720	19,588	24