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Historical memoirs of the Irish rebellion, in the year 1641 : Extracted from Parliamentary journals, State-Acts, and the most eminent Protestant historians. Together with an append...

by Curry, John
Published 1765

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The true secret history of the lives and reigns of all the kings and queens of England : from King William the first, called, the Conquerour. To which is prefixed an abstract of th...

by Somers, John Somers
Published 1702

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A pocket companion for gentlemen and ladies. Being a true and faithful epitomy of the most exact and ample historians of England; containing all the material Particulars in every Reign of the English...

by Ayloffe, William
Published 1703

printed for J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall

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The birth : life, and death, of Judas Iscariot. Who, for Thirty Peices of Silver, sold and betrayed his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. (to which is added,) A Short Relation of Our...

Published 1793

printed by I. Hawkins, Park-Street

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The true secret history of the lives and reigns of all the kings and queens of England : from King William the first, called the Conqueror, to the end of the reign of the late Quee...

by Somers, John Somers
Published 1730

printed for D. Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar

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A proper memorial for the 29th of May, the glorious day which bless'd these nations with the return of King Charles the IId, their Rightful Monarch. Being An Historical Account of his wonderful Escape, after the Battel of Worcester, from the hot Pursuit of those inhuman Robel, who, having drank his Father's Blood, thirsted after his. As also of the following Usurpations, and of the Glorious and Happy Restoration of the Royal Family. Containing Many remarkable Particulars and Circumstances of those Great Providences not mention'd by the Earl of Clarendon, or any other Historian; and shewing, that no one Dissenter...

Published 1715

printed for A. Bettesworth, who is remov'd from London-Bridge, to the Red-Fort in Pater-Noster-Row, and sold by C. King in Westminster Hall, E. Curll in Fleet-Street, and W. Hinchliffe at the Royal-Exchange

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An historical account of the antient parliaments of France, or States-General of the kingdom. In fourteen letters. Shewing The Quality of the Members that composed those Assemblies; the Form of their Deliberations and Proceedings; the vast Extent of their Power; their most celebrated Judgments; the Characters of the Princes that called them, from Charlemagne to Louis XI. and the several perfidious Artifices and Steps of the French Kings and their Ministers, for gradually reducing the Nation from a Plenitude of Liberty, to its present State of Servitude and Slavery. To which is added, A Chronological Abridgment of the History of France, under the Reigns of the Kings of the First Race. Vol. I. The whole written in French by that accurate and faithful historian the Count de Boulainvilliers, The Merit of whose Works has caused them...

by Boulainvilliers, Henri
Published 1739

printed for J. Brindley in New-Bond-Street, Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

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Johannis, confratris & monachi Glastoniensis : chronica sive historia de rebus Glastoniensibus. E Codice MS. Membraneo antiquo Descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius. Qui & ex eodem Co...

by Joannes
Published 1726

e Theatro Sheldoniano

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A concise history of the antient and illustrious house of Gordon, from the origin of the name to the present time, together with an Account of the Pedigree of his Grace the Duke of Gordon, and of the Right Honourable the Earl of Aboyne and the Lord Andrew Count Gordon, nearest collateral Branches of the illustrious Family. All faithfully collected from Scotch and foreign Historians, Manuscripts, Records...

by Gordon, C. A.
Published 1754

printed for the author

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Belles lettres for the ladies: or, A new and easy introduction to polite literature : Comprehending not only the elements of oratory, but a summary account of the lives and charact...

by Seally, John
Published 1785

printed for W. Goldsmith, No. 24, Pater-noster-Row; and P. Elmsly, opposite Southampton-street, Strand

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A history of the noble family of Carteret : existing before the reign of William the Conqueror. With the most Memorable Actions, and Atchievements, of the principal Persons thereof...

by Collins, Arthur
Published 1756

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The general history of England : both ecclesiastical and civil: containing the reigns of Edvvard I, II, III, and Richard II. Taken from the most antient records, manuscripts and pr...

by Tyrrell, James
Published 1704

printed for W. Rogers, in Fleet-street; J. Taylor, in St. Paul's Church-yard; J. Nicholson, in Little-Britain; and A. Bell, in Cornhill

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A new and complete history of Essex : from a late survey; Compared with the most celebrated Historians; containing a natural and pleasing description of the several divisions of th...

by Gentleman
Published 1769

printed and sold by Lionel Hassall. MDCCLXX. Sold also by F. Newbery, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London

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The history of Scotland; from 21 February, 1436, to March, 1565 : In which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians; and ma...

by Lindsay, Robert
Published 1728

Printed by Mr. Baskett and Company, His Majesty's printers, and sold at Mr. Freebairn's Shop in the Parliament-Closs; and at London by Andrew Millar bookseller, at his Shop over against St. Clement's Church in the Strand

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The memoirs of Sir James Melvil of Halhill : Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians...

by Melville, James
Published 1752

Printed for D. Wilson, at Plato's Head in the Strand

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The christian schoolmaster : or, an abstract of scripture-history. In two parts. With an appendix. Containing a short account of the lives, actions, Travels, and Persecutions of th...

by Bellamy, Daniel
Published 1737

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An answer to the Reverend Mr. George Logan's late treatise on government: in which (contrary to the manifold errors and misrepresentations of that author) the ancient constitution of the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, and the hereditary Succession of its Monarchs are asserted and vindicated; The Legitimacy of King Robert III. is most clearly demonstrated; And Several considerable Mistakes and Falshoods, in our common Historians and others, are discovered and rectified. By Thomas Ruddiman, A.M

by Ruddiman, Thomas
Published 1747

printed by W. and T. Ruddimans, and to be sold at their printing-house, and by the booksellers in Edinburgh

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Memoirs of the life and writings of Ben. Jonson : Esq; Poet Laureat to King James the First, and King Charles the First. With An Abstract of the Lives of their Favourites, Somerset...

by Chetwood, William Rufus
Published 1756

printed for, and sold by, W. R. Chetwood, at the Green Door, the Entrance of the Four-Court-Marshalsea; and by Messrs. G. and A. Ewing, P. Wilson, R. James, S. Price, and J. Rudd, in Dame-Street; J. Grierson and Company, and G. Faulkner, in Essex-street; C. Wynne, in Caple-street; L. Flin, in Castle-street; and W. Whet-stone, in Skinner-row; Booksellers in Dublin; and J. Hay, Bookseller, in Belfast

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Old Tom Parr : A true story. Shewing, That he was a labouring Man, and the Wonder of his Time; and how he was brought up to London by the Earl of Arundel, 1635, in which Year he di...

Published 1797

Printed and sold by J. Marshall, at the Cheap-Repository, No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London; and may be had of the Booksellers, Newsmen, and Hawkers, in Town and Country. Great Allowance to Shopkeepers and Hawkers

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The memoirs of Sir James Melvil of Halhill: containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: More particularly...

by Melville, James
Published 1735

printed by T. and W. Ruddimans. Sold by G. Hamilton, A. Martin, and other booksellers in town

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