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  You that are subscribers to the apprentices petition are desired to meet at the Piazzi in Covent-Garden, on Munday [sic] the second of January by seven of the clock in the morning in compleate civill habit, without swords or staves
  Date of publication:
  1643
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Date of publication from Thomason Coll. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
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  Wyllyam Cecill knight, high stewarde of the citie of Westminster, and Ambrose Caue, knight, chauncelour of the duchye of Lancaster, two of the priuie counsell to the Quenes moste excellent Maiestie, to the baylyffe, headboroughs, constables, and other officers within the sayde citie ... greeting knowe ye that our sayde soueraigne lady the quene, hauyng compassion of the estate of that her citie, because of the long visitation thereof with the plague ...
  Date of publication:
  1564
  

  Author(s):

  Westminster (London, England). Steward. ; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. and Cave, Ambrose, Sir, d. 1568.
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  Title from first 8 lines of text. "From Wyndsor the .xii. of March. 1563 [i.e. 1564]." Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.
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  Whitehall, October 18. 1697. Last night came in two mails from Holland.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Below title: Published by authority. Imprint from colophon. Concerns the War of the Grand Alliance. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.
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  Whitehall, June 7. 1697. The mail from Holland of Friday last arrived this afternoon; tho' that of Tuesday the first of this month is not yet come in.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Underneath title: Published by authority. Imprint from colophon. Concerns the War of the Grand Alliance. Imperfect: faded print with some loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the National Library ...
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  Whitehall, August 19. 1695, this morning came in an express from my Lord Berkeley with an account of the bombarding of Calais.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Berkeley of Stratton, John Berkeley, Baron, 1663-1697.
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  Reproductions of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. "Published by authority."
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  Whitehall swept and furnished by A. T. A lover of his countrey.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  A. T.
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  Caption title. Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.
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  Whereas, vpon hearing the cause in controversie betweene Matthew de Quester, Esquire, postmaster of England for forraigne seruices, and Henry Billingsley ...
  Date of publication:
  1626
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Privy Council.
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  Title from first 2 lines of text. At head of sheet: S. Martins in the fieldes, 15. Augusti 1626. Ordering H. Billingsley and all his employees to cease carrying overseas mail until the dispute with M. de Quester is settled. ...
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  Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens and burgesses, members of the Parliament of King Charles the Second ... have desired Us to cause Our letters to be written ...
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
  Description:
  Begins at head of text: "My Lord," "Given at St. James's the Nine and twentieth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord, 1688." Form letter calling for election of a new parliament. Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library.
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  Whereas Nat. Thompson hath lately, in his Publick intelligence of the 25th of October 1681, published these words following, as delivered by the Earl of Huntington to His Majesty ...
  Date of publication:
  1681
  

  Author(s):

  Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of, 1649-1685. ; Tankerville, Forde Grey, Earl of, 1655-1701. and Herbert of Cherbury, Henry Herbert, Baron, d. 1691.
  Description:
  Title from first lines of text. Place of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Signed at end: "November 2. 1681. Monmouth. F. Grey. Herbert." Reproduction of original in: Birmingham Central Reference Library (Birmingham, England).
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  Whereas it hath pleased the Parliament in and by their Act bearing date the 14th of August 1649. concerning the excise, to appoint the generall of their forces for the time being, to order and enjoyne all collonels ...
  Date of publication:
  1651
  

  Author(s):

  Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
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  Dated and signed: the eight day of Novemb. 1651. O: Cromwell. Imprint from Wing. Steele notation (exclusive of order): Act diers fit-. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb. 14". Reproduction of original in the Henry E. ...
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  Whereas it hath pleased His Maiestie by his proclamation bearing date the xv. of May 1609. to publish his pleasure touching the ordinary posts of this realme ...
  Date of publication:
  1616
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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  Authorizing Mathew de Quester, postmaster for foreign posts, to arrest unauthorized carriers of overseas mail. "From the Court at Whitehall the 27 of Ianuary 1615." Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library ...
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  Whereas it hath pleased almighty God to call to his mercy our late sovereigne lord, King Iames, of blessed memory, by whose decease the imperiall crowns of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, are solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Prince Charles ...
  Date of publication:
  1625
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Parliament. ; England and Wales. Privy Council. and City of London (England). Lord Mayor (1624-1625 : Gore)
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  Contains names of the lord mayor of London, privy council, and leading bishops. Last complete line of text ends "doe". Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.
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  Whereas it hath pleased almighty God to call to his mercy our late soveraign lord King Charles the Second of blessed memory, by whose decease the imperial crowns of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, are solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Prince James, Duke of York and Albany ...
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
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  Title from first lines of text. Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. Signed: W. Cant. [and 46 others]. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.
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  Whereas Alexander Leighton, a Scottish man borne, who was lately sentenced by the honourable Court of Starre-Chamber, to pay a great fine to His Maiestie, and to vndergoe corporall punishment, for writing, printing, and publishing a very libellous and scandalous booke against the king and his gouernment, hath this 11th day of nouember, escaped
  Date of publication:
  1630
  

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  England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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  Imprint from STC (2nd ed.). "Dated this eleuenth of Nouember, 1630." Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.
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  Whereas [Henry Erle of Huntingdon] hath paid in ready mony to Sir Thomas Smith Knight, Treasurer of Virginea [sic], the somme of [fortye powndes] for his aduentures towards the said voiage ... Written this [forth] of [Aprill] Anno Domini 1610.
  Date of publication:
  1610
  

  Author(s):

  Virginia Company.
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  Place of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Form, with bracketed material written in ms. Verso has ms. note: "A Bill of Aduenture for the payment of 40[lb?] by the right Honorable the Earle of Huntingdon beinge the ...
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  Where sundrie preachers haue latelie come into sundrie places of the diocesse of London, some of them not being ministers ...
  Date of publication:
  1589
  

  Author(s):

  Whitgift, John, 1530?-1604.
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  "A Copie." "Yeouen the XXvi. day of March in the yeare of our Lord God 1589." At end of sheet: "Io: Cantuar. Ihon London. Tho. Winton. Harb. Hereford. Subsigned. Valen: Dale. Owyn Hopton. Bar: Clark. W. Aubrey. W. Fletewood. ...
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  Wee the knights, gentlemen, ministers, and free-holders of the county of Warwick being deeply affected with, and sadly sensible of the present miseries,...
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Concerning payment of taxes imposed by Parliament, support for a general act of oblivion, and payment of arrears due to soldiers. Title from first 4 lines of text. At end, "Subscribed in many thousand hands." in square ...
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  Wednesday, February 13, 1655, at the council at Whitehall forasmuch as for many years last past, complaints have been made of the excessive charges with which the office of sheriff hath been burdened ...
  Date of publication:
  1655
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
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  Imperfect: printing error resulting in broken lines of print and slight loss of text. "Wednesday February 13. 1655. Ordered by his Highness and the Council, That this Order be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell, ...
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  We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
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  Form of a covenant drawn up by the Committee of Correspondence at Boston; cf. Matthews, Albert. "The solemn league and covenant, 1774," in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. XVIII, 1917, p. 103-122. ...
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  We have been banter'd & bubbl'd & cheated & banter'd & bubbl'd a song.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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