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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
  

  Author(s):

  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 a commission under the Great Seal of England, bearing date at Westminster the three and twentieth day of August now last past, hath been directed unto me, and divers others in the said commission nominated, authorizing the said commissioners, or any four or more of them, by such ways and means as therein is directed, to enquire within the city and diocess of Canterbery in the county of Kent, as well within liberties as without, for the due execution of the statute made made in the three and fortieth year of the raign of our late soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth ... Given under my hand this fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord 1683.
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

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  Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1678-1690 : Sancroft) and Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.
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  Signed: "W. Cant." Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.
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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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  Where Helen lyes. To an excellent new sweet tune, I would I were where Helen lyes.
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Caption title. Imprint suggested by Wing. Text printed in two columns in black letter. Imperfect: cropped at head; creased with some loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.
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  Weepe with ioy a lamentation for the losse of our late soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth, with ioy and exultation for our high and mightie Prince, King Iames, her lineall and lawful successor.
  Date of publication:
  1603
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries.
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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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  Wednesday January I. 1701. A little before break-a-day at Boston of the Massachusets.
  Date of publication:
  1701
  

  Author(s):

  Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.
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  Verse, in six stanzas, honoring the new century. First line: Once more! Our God, vouchsafe to shine. By Samuel Sewall. His diary entry for Jan. 2, 1700/01, includes three stanzas; cf. The diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, ...
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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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