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Religion
| Author | Title | Place & date of publication | Lampeter ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Hill | The Trade of Truth Advanced in a Sermon Preached to the Honourable House of Commons, [...] | London, 1642 | RelA1642 |
| [Henry Hammond] | Of Scandall [...] | Oxford, 1644 | RelB1644 |
| Joseph Sedgwick | A sermon, preached at St. Marie's in the University of Cambridge May 1st, 1653. | London, 1653 | RelA1653 |
| John Cook | A true relation of Mr. Iohn Cook's passage by sea from Wexford to Kinsale in that great storm [...] | Cork/London, 1650 | RelB1650 |
| Richard Sherlock | A sermon preached at a visitation, held at Warrington in Lancashire May 11, 1669. | London, 1669 | RelA1669 |
| Henry Jones | A sermon of Antichrist, preached at Christ-Church, Dublin. Novemb. 12. 1676. | London, 1679 | RelB1679 |
| [John Owen] | Indulgence and toleration considered: in a letter unto a person of honour. | London, 1667 | RelB1667 |
| William Penn | A just rebuke to one & twenty learned and reverend Divines (so called) [...] | 1674 | RelB1674 |
| Thomas Pittis | An old way of ending new controversies; in a sermon preached to the comptoller, and the rest of the gentlemen of the [...] Inner Temple: [...] | 1682 | RelA1682 |
| Elinor James | Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, [...] | London, 1687 | RelB1687 |
| John Piggott | A good king and his people, the special care of heaven. A sermon [...] | London; 1696 | RelA1696 |
| Humphry Hody | A letter from Mr. Humphrey Hody [...] concerning a collection of canons said to be deceitfully omitted in his edition of the Oxford treatise against schism [...] | Oxford, 1692 | RelB1692 |
| John Waller | Religion and loyalty, or the reverence due both to Church and state, asserted in a sermon, [...] | Cambridge, 1708 | RelA1708 |
| [William Higden] | The case of sureties in baptism. | London, 1701 | RelB1701 |
| Samuel Wright | A funeral sermon, upon the sudden and much lamented death of Dr. Francis Upton; [...] | London, 1711 | RelA1711 |
| Anne Roberts | The Flying Post posted: or, An answer to a late pamphlet of that author's call'd The Chichester dean, [...] | London, 1718 | RelB1718 |
| Joseph Trapp | The dignity, and benefit, of the priesthood; [...] | London, 1721 | RelA1721 |
| Francis Hare | Scripture vindicated from the misinterpretations of the Lord Bishop of Bangor: [...] | London, 1721 | RelB1721 |
| Arthur Bedford | A sermon [...] Occasioned by the erecting of a play house in the neighbourhood [...] | London, 1730 | RelA1730 |
| John Henley | Light in a candlestick, to all that are in the House: Or, the impartial churchman [...] | London, 1730 | RelB1730 |
| Author | Title | Place & date of publication | Lampeter ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Campbell | Severall speeches, spoken by [...] Lord High Chancellor of the Kingdome of Scotland [...] | Edinburgh, 1646 | PolA1646 |
| [James Howell] | A Venice looking-glasse: or, A letter written very lately from London to Rome [...] | 1648 | PolB1648 |
| Nathaniel Fiennes | The speech of the right honourable the Lord Fiennes made before his Highnesse, and both houses of Parliament [...] | London, 1659 | PolA1659 |
| Edward Sexby (Silas Titus?) | Killing, no murder [...] | London, 1659 | PolB1659 |
| [Slingsby Bethel] | The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell [...] | London, 1667 | PolA1668 |
| [Edmond Peirce] | England's monarchy asserted [...] | London, 1660 | PolB1660 |
| [George Villiers] | A letter to Sir Thomas Osborn, one of his Majesties Privy Council, upon the reading of a book, called The present interest of England stated. | London, 1672 | PolA1672 |
| Thomas Turnor | The case of the bankers and their creditors. Stated and examined [...] | 1674 | PolB1674 |
| [William Assheton] | The royal apologie: or, an answer to the rebels plea [...] | London, 1684 | PolA1684 |
| [Robert Ferguson] | The late proceedings and votes of the parliament of Scotland [...] | Glasgow, 1689 | PolB1689 |
| [Archibald Foyer, Andrew Fletcher] (attr.) | A defense of the Scots settlement at Darien. [...] | Edinburgh, 1699 | PolA1699 |
| J. Ashton [Edward Fowler] | An answer to the paper delivered by Mr. Ashton at his execution to Sir Francis Child [...] | London, 1690 | PolB1690 |
| [Thomas Wagstaffe] | The present state of Jacobitism in England. A second part. In answer to the first. | London, 1702 | PolA1702 |
| John Hamilton | The Lord Beilhaven's speech in the Scotch Parliament [...] on the subject-matter of an union betwixt the two kingdoms [...] | 1706 | PolB1706 |
| John Oldisworth | Reasons for Restoring the Whigs. | London, 1711 | PolA1711 |
| [Daniel Finch] (attr.) | Observations upon the State of the Nation, in January 1712/13. | London, 1713 | PolB1713 |
| [John Toland] | Reasons most humbly offered [...] why the Bill [...] entitul'd, An Act for the better securing the dependency of the kingdom of Ireland upon the Crown of Great-Britain, shou'd not pass into a law [...] | London, 1720 | PolA1720 |
| John Trueman (pseud.) | An examination and resolution of the two questions following, viz. First, Whether Unfreemen can Vote in our Wardmote Elections. Secondly, Whether Freemen paying to one or more Scots, and not to all, shall be qualified to Vote in those Elections. | London, 1724 | PolB1724 |
| [Horatio Walpole] | The case of the Hessian forces [...] | London, 1731 | PolA1731 |
| Author | Title | Place & date of publication | Lampeter ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Richard Kilvert] | A reply to a most untrue relation [...] by certaine vintners, in excuse of their wine project. | 1641 | EcA1641 |
| East India Company | The petition and remonstrance of the governour and company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies [...] | London, 1641 | EcB1641 |
| Anon. | The Advocate. | London, 1652 | EcA1652 |
| Walter Blith | The English improver improved or the Survey of husbandry surveyed [...] | London, 1653 | EcB1653 |
| Thomas Culpepper | A discourse ,shewing the many advantages which will accrue to this kingdom by the abatement of usury [...] | London, 1668 | EcA1668 |
| Francis Cradocke | An expedient for taking away all impositions, and for raising a revenue without taxes [...] | London, 1660 | EcB1660 |
| Anon. | Is not the hand of Joab in all this? Or An enquiry into the grounds of a late pamphlet intituled, The mystery of the new-fashioned-goldsmiths or bankers, &c. [...] | 1676 | EcA1676 |
| Anon. | An Answer to Two Letters, Concerning the East-India Company. | 1676 | EcB1676 |
| Anon. | The Trade of England Revived: And the Abuses thereof Rectified, [...] | London, 1681 | EcA1681 |
| Josiah Child | A treatise wherein is demonstrated [...] That the East India Trade is the most national of all foreign trades [...] | London, 1681 | EcB1681 |
| [Pollexfen, John] | England and East India inconsistent in their manufactures. [...] | London, 1697 | EcA1697 |
| W[illiam] C[ulliford] or W. C[anning] (Wing) | A discourse (by way of essay) humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons, towards the raising moneys by an excise [...] | London, 1696 | EcB1696 |
| John Broughton | Remarks upon the Bank of England [...] | London, 1705 | EcA1705 |
| James Puckle | England's Path to wealth and honour between an English-man and a Dutch-man [...] | London, 1700 | EcB1700 |
| [William Cleland] | Some observations, shewing the danger of losing the trade of the sugar colonies. | London, 1714 | EcA1714 |
| [(William?) Broome] | Wednesday club-law: or, The injustice, dishonour, and ill policy of breaking into parliamentary contracts for publick debts [...] | London, 1717 | EcB1717 |
| Anon. | A letter to a member of parliament, concerning the naval store-bill, brought in last session [...] | London, 1720 | EcA1720 |
| John Meres | The equity of Parliaments, and publick faith, vindicated; in an answer to the Crisis of property [...], and address'd to the annuitants [...] | London, 1720 | EcB1720 |
| [Fayrer Hall] | Remarks upon a book, entituled, the present state of the sugar colonies consider'd. | London, 1731 | EcA1731 |
| Joseph Davies | An humble proposal for the increase of our home trade, and a defence to Gibraltar [...] | London, 1731 | EcB1731 |
| Author | Title | Place & date of publication | Lampeter ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Lilly | Merlinus Anglicus junjor: the English Merlin revived; or, His prediction upon the affaires of the English Common-wealth [...] | London, 1644 | SciA1644 |
| John Gregorie | The description and use of the terrestrial globe. | London, 1650 [1649] | SciB1649 |
| Cressy Dymock et al. | A discoverie for division or setting out of land, as to the best form. | London, 1653 | SciA1653 |
| Peter Heylin | Cosmographie in four bookes [...] Ch. "Of Swethland". | London, 1652 | SciB1552 |
| John Wallis | "An essay of Dr. John Wallis, exhibiting his hypothesis about the flux and reflux of the sea [...] " Philosophical Transactions 16, August 6, 1666. | London, 1666 | SciA1666 |
| Richard Holland | Globe notes per R.H. | [Oxford?], 1666 | SciB1666 |
| Robert Hooke | An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations [...] | London, 1674 | SciA1674 |
| Thomas Guidott | A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, Some Enquiries into the Nature of the water [...] | London, 1676 | SciB1676 |
| Walter Charleton | Three anatomic lectures, concerning 1. The motion of the bloud through the veins and arteries; [...] | London, 1683 | SciA1683 |
| Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies, in two essays. | London, 1684 | SciB1684 |
| William Alingham | A Short Account of the Nature and Use of Maps. | London, 1698 | SciA1698 |
| [John Woodward] | Brief instructions for making observations in all parts of the world [...] | London, 1696 | SciB1696 |
| George Keith | Geography and navigation compleated; being a new theory and method whereby the true longitude of any place in the world may be found [...] | London, 1709 | SciA1709 |
| Anon. | The present state of physick & surgery in London. [...] | London, 1701 | SciB1701 |
| Francis Guybon | An essay concerning the growth of empiricism; or the encouragement of quacks. [...] | London, 1712 | SciA1712 |
| R. B. | Longitude to be found out with a new invented instrument, both by sea and land [...] | London, 1714 | SciB1714 |
| Richard Mead | A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion and the methods used to prevent it. | London, 1720 | SciA1720 |
| Charles Maitland | Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox vindicated [...] | London, 1722 | SciB1722 |
| John Colbatch | A Dissertation concerning mistletoe: a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers [...] | London, 1730 | SciA1730 |
| George Berkeley | A defence of free-thinking in mathematics. [...] | London, 1735 | SciB1735 |
| Author | Title | Place & date of publication | Lampeter ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Devereux | Laws and Ordinances of Warre, Established for the better Conduct of the Army, [...] | London, 1643 | LawA1643 |
| William Prynne | A Legall Vindication of the Liberties of England [...] | London, 1649 | LawB1649 |
| Henry Robinson | Certaine proposals in order to a new modelling of the lawes, and law-proceedings [...] | London, 1653 | LawA1653 |
| Anon. | England's safety in the laws supremacy. | London, 1659 | LawB1659 |
| Anon. | The tryals of such persons as under the motion of London-apprentices were tumultuously assembled [...] | London, 1668 | LawA1668 |
| Thomas Violet et al. | Two petitions of Thomas Violet of London goldsmith, to the Kings Majestie [...] | London, 1661 | LawB1661 |
| E. W. | The Continuation of the Case between Sir William Courten, his heyres and assignes, and the East India Company of the Netherlands [...] | 1673 | LawA1673 |
| Anon. | An exact account of the trials of the several persons arraigned at the sessions-house in the Old-Bailey for London and Middlesex [...] | London, 1678 | LawB1678 |
| John Hawles | The English-mans right. A dialogue between a barrister at law and a jury-man. [...] | London, 1680 | LawA1680 |
| Sir Edward Herbert | A short account of the authorities in law, upon which judgement was given in Sir Edw. Hales his case [...] | London, 1688 | LawB1688 |
| [Matthew Hale] (attr.) | A Treatise, showing how usefull, safe, reasonable and beneficial, the inrolling & registring of all conveyances of lands, may be to the inhabitants of this kingdom. | London, 1694 | LawA1694 |
| Anon. | A Letter to a Friend, In Vindication of the Proceedings against Sir John Fenwick, by Bill of Attainder. [...] | 1697 | LawB1697 |
| [Charles Hore et al.] | A true and exact account of many great abuses committed in the victualling her Majesties Navy [...] | London, 1703 | LawA1703 |
| Francis North | An Argument of a Learned Judge in the Exchequer-Chamber upon a Writ of Error [...] | London, 1704 | LawB1704 |
| William Nairne, William Maxwell, William Widdrington, James Radcliffe (Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons) | The whole Proceedings to Judgment upon the Articles of Impeachment of High Treason [...] | London, 1716 | LawA1716 |
| [William Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely] | The counsellor's plea for the divorce of Sir G. D. and Mrs. F. | London, 1715 | LawB1715 |
| Lionel Cranfield Sackville (Great Britain, Parliament, House of Lords) | A report from the Lords Committees [...] who were impowered by the House of Lords to examine Christopher Layer [...] | London, 1723 | LawA1723 |
| George Kelly | The speech of Mr. George Kelly. Spoke at the Bar of the House of Lords [...] In his defence against the bill then depending, for inflicting pains and penalties upon him [...] | London, 1723 | LawB1723 |
| Anon. | The rights and liberties of subjects vindicated: in answer to the adjuster of the dispute about the proper time of applying for a repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts [...] | London, 1732 | LawA1732 |
| Anon. | Remarks on the trial of John-Peter Zenger , printer of the New-York weekly journal, who was lately try'd and acquitted for printing and publishing two libels [...] | London, 1738 | LawB1738 |
| Author | Title | Place & date of publication | Lampeter ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Foster | A True and exact relation of the marchings of the two regiments of the trained bands of the city of London [...] As also of the three regiments of the auxiliary forces [...] who marched forth for the reliefe of the city of Glocester [...] | London, 1643 | MscA1643 |
| Commissioners of the Navy | The answer of the Commissioners of the Navie, to a scandalous pamphlet, published by Mr. Andrewes Burrell. | 1646 | MscB1646 |
| [Henry Neville] | Newes from the new exchange, or the commonwealth of ladies [...] | London: printed in the year, of women without grace, 1650 | MscA1650 |
| Matthew Pole, Richard Baxter et al. | A model for the maintaining of students of choice abilities at the university, and principally in order to the ministry [...] | 1658 | MscB1658 |
| Heneage Finch | A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Ætna [...] | In the Savoy, 1669 | MscA1669 |
| Henry Stubbs | The Miraculous Conformist: or An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr Valentine Greatarick. [...] | Oxford, 1666 | MscB1666 |
| A.B. | A letter of advice concerning marriage. | London, 1676 | MscA1676 |
| J[ohn] G[adbury] | A brief relation of the Life and Death of the late Famous Mathematician and Astrologer, Mr. Vincent Wing. [...] | London, 1670 | MscB1670 |
| Thomas Phelps | A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps, At Machaness in Barbary, [...] | London, 1685 | MscA1685 |
| [Nicholas Barbon] | An apology for the builder: or a discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building. | London, 1685 | MscB1685 |
| Moses Pitt | An account of one Ann Jefferies, now living in the County of Cornwall, who was fed for six months by a small sort of airy people call'd fairies [...] | London, 1696 | MscA1696 |
| [Elkanah Settle] | The second part of the notorious impostor, compleating the history of the life, cheats, &c. of William Morrell, alias Bowyer, sometime of Banbury, Chirurgeon [...] | London, 1692 | MscB1692 |
| [Matthew Tindal] | Reasons against restraining the press. | London: 1704 | MscA1704 |
| [Edward Ward] | Labour in vain: or, What signifies little or nothing [...] | London, 1700 | MscB1700 |
| Arthur Fairman | A full confutation of witchcraft [...] proving that, witchcraft is priestcraft [...] | London, 1712 | MscA1712 |
| John Laurence | The fruit garden calender: or, A summary of the art of managing the fruit-garden [...] | London, 1718 | MscA1718 |
| Thomas Fairchild | The city gardener. [...] | London, 1722 | MscA1722 |
| George Akerby | The Life of Mr. James Spiller, The late Famous Comedian. | London, 1729 | MscB1729 |
| John Southall | A treatise of buggs [...] | London, 1730 | MscA1730 |
| Anon. | The history of the life and actions of Gustavus Vasa, deliverer of his country. | London, 1739 | MscB1739 |