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The yarmouth tragedy; or, the perjur'd sailor. In three parts. Part I. Shewing how a Sailor courted a Merchant's Daughter in Yarmouth; how he deluded her, and got her with Child. Part II. He finding she was with Child, shipp'd himself for Sea; upon which she drest herself in Man's Apparel, and went on board the same Ship, and how she discovered herself to him. Part III. How in their Passage from Leghorn...

Published 1775

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An act for carrying into execution several contracts made by, or on Behalf of, James late Lord Bulkeley, in the Kingdom of Ireland, in his Life-Time, for the Sale of several Lands and Tenements in the County of Chester; and for applying the Purchase-Money to discharge incumbrances affecting the same

Published 1756

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The present state of the universe, or an account of I. The rise, births, names, Matches, Children and near Allies of all the present chief princes of the world. II. Their Coats of Arms, Motto's, Devices, Liveries, Religions and Languages. III. The Names of their Chief Towns, with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants. Their Chief Seats of Pleasure, and other Remarkable things in their Dominions. IV. Their Revenues, Power, and Strength. V. Their respective Styles and Titles, or Appellations. VI. And an Account of the common-wealths, relating to the same Heads. With several Effigies wanting in the former Impression...

by Beaumont, John
Published 1704

printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by John Nutt, near Stationers-Hall

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Sighs from hell, or the groans of a damned soul. Discovering from the xvi. of Luke the lamentable state of the damned. And may fitly serve As a warning Word to Sinners, both old and young, by Faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same Place of Torment. With a Discovery of the Usefulness of the Scriptures...

by Bunyan, John
Published 1770

printed by John Robertson

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A bill for better effecting the pious intention of building fifty new churches, or so many of them as shall be built by the Funds already granted; and for settling the Right of Patronage thereof, and separating the Parishes belonging to the same, and the Revenues thereof; and preserving the Right...

Published 1725

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Parody on The lads of the village. A new flash song. Same tune

Published 1785

Fowler, printer, Salisbury

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The reply of the vestrymen of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, to the petition which has been presented to the House of Commons, (intitled, A petition of the principal inhabitants of the several parishes of St. Martin in the Fields, St. Anne, St. James, St. George Hanover-Square, and St. Margaret, within the Liberty of Westminster, in Behalf of themselves and the rest of the Inhabitants of the said respective Parishes) so far as the same Petition affects or relates to the said Parish of St...

Published 1737

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Reasons humbly offer'd against continuing of the act for better viewing, searching, and examining of drugs, medicines, &c. as the same now stands

Published 1727

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Reasons humbly offer'd against the bill (now depending in Parliament) to restrain the disposition of lands, whereby the same become unalienable

Published 1736

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Subjects: “...Great Britain / Parliament / Bill to restrain the dispositions of lands, whereby the same become...”

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A description of the English and French territories, in North America: With an Account of the Great Fall of Niagara; and of the Five Indian Nations; together with the Plan and Description of Crown Point. Being, an explanation of a new map of the same. Shewing all the Encroachments of the French...

Published 1756

printed for J. Exshaw, at the Bible, opposite Castle-Lane, in Dame-Street. MDCCLVI. s. d

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The sameness of bishops and presbyters, as to order, tho not as to dignity, no less briefly than...

Published 1717

printed for J. Harrison under the Royal Exchange; and sold by J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane

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A supplement to the history of the Crown-Inn, for the first three years under the new landlord. With Additional Characters of some of the chief Servants. To which is added, some account of an adventure which lately happen'd at the Mitre-Inn in the same town. With the Character of Merry-Andrew, and his pacquet...

Published 1717

printed: and sold by J. Moor, near St. Paul's

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A survey of the national debts, the sinking fund, the civil list, and the annual supplies: giving a clear and impartial account of our present state with regard to publick money. With tables of the National Debts for 1716, and the five last Years; the Navy Debts; the Expence of the War for the four last Years; the Monies expended on all Occasions for the Publick, in the same Years; and the Supplies...

Published 1745

printed by W. Webb, near St. Paul's

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Shakespeare. Mr. Alderman Boydell, Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol, propose to publish by subscription a most magnificent and accurate edition of the plays of Shakespeare, in eight volumes Of the largest Quarto Size, on the finest Royal Atlag Paper, to be fabricated for that Purpose by Mr. Whatman. The Letter-Press will be executed by Mr. Hughs, with a Set of New Types cast by Mr. Caslon. The text to be regulated, and the Literary Part of the Undertaking conducted, By George Steevens, Esq. To accompany this work Messieurs Boydell intend to publish by subscription a series of large and capital prints After Pictures to be immediately painted by the following Artists, from the most striking Scenes in the same...

Published 1786

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The tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell and John Spurr. For feloniously stealing Mrs Pleasant Rawlins, a virgin and heiress of a considerable fortune: with An Intent to Cause and Procure the said Pleasant Rawlins against her Will, to Marry the said Haagen Swendsen. At the Queens Bench Bar at Westminster, Nov. 25. 1702. Before The Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, and the rest of the Judges of the said Court, of which Fact the said Haagen Swendsen and Sarah Baynton were found Guilty, and the said Swendsen was executed for the same, Decemb. 9th following. The said Baynton...

by Swendsen, Haagen
Published 1703

printed for Isaac Cleave next Serjeants Inn in Chancery-Lane

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The present state of the universe, or an account of I. The rise, births, names, Matches, Children and near Allies of all the present chief princes of the world. II. Their Coats of Arms, Motto's, Devices, Liveries, Religions, and Languages. III. The Names of their Chief Towns, with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants. Their Chief Seats of Pleasure, and other Remarkable things in their Dominions. IV. Their Revenues, Power, and Strength. V. Their respective Styles and Titles, or Appellations. Also An Account of common-wealths, relating to the same Heads. As also the various Bearings of their several Ships at Sea

by Beaumont, John
Published 1701

printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by John Nutt, near Stationers-Hall

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Observations relative to the resources of the East India Company for productive remittance; and the national loss occasioned by the importation of the same species of cotton goods which can be manufactured...

Published 1788

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An act for sale of the moiety of the manor of Icombe, part of the settled estate of Richard Hopton, Esquire, and others; and laying out the money arising thereby in the purchase of an intire estate, to be settled to the same uses

Published 1752

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An act for vesting the advowson of Long Ditton, in the county of Surry, in trustees, to be sold; and to apply the money, arising by such sale, in the purchase of lands, to be settled to the same uses...

Published 1753

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An act for vesting the estate late of William Rawstorn, Esquire, at Basseldon, in the county of Berks, in trustees, to sell the same; and to lay out the money arising by such sale, in the purchase...

Published 1753

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