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1688ref. 743511688. William of Orange Decides to Summon the Convention Parliament Parliament. William III King of England 1650-1702. Divers of the Members of the Parliaments in the Reign of King Charles the Second And the Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London Pursuant to His Highness the Prince of Orange's Desire Meeting at St. James's the 26th of December 1688 Caption Title. At head of title: Westminster 26 Dec. 1688. London: Printed by John Starkey Awnsham and William Churchill 1688. 4 pp. Folio 12-1/2" x 8". Disbound bifolium edges untrimmed. Moderate toning faint dampstaining to top half a few faint stains. $1250. Only edition. An account of one of the assemblies of peers after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By this time James II had fled to France and many were advocating for the accession of William of Orange to the throne. This document summarizes the assembly that asked William to summon a convention that would meet in January of the following year. Ultimately the convention which became known as the Convention Parliament decided that James had abandoned the throne and installed William and Mary as King and Queen. OCLC locates 1 copy of this title in a law library University of Minnesota. English Short-Title Catalogue R25000. unknown books
1734ref. 748961734. Includes a List of the Trustees and Commissioners of the Colony of Georgia Great Britain. Parliament. An Exact List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal; . Also a Compleat Alphabetical Double List Of I. The Counties Cities And Boroughs With Their Representatives Against Each: P. 10-19 II. The Knights Citizens And Burgesses of the Present Parliament Summon'd to Meet June 17 1734 With the Places of Their Abode; Shewing Also The Places They Represent The New Members 2 3 &c. How Many Parliaments the Old Have Served In . To Which is Added The Trustees for Georgia And The Places of Their Abode: With Blank Pages for Alterations. London: Printed by E. Cave at St. John's Gate 1734-35. ii 37 i.e. 72 4 pp. Printed on one side of leaf only alternating recto and verso. 12mo. 5-1/4" x 3-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked in period style calf with blind fillets lettering piece and gilt date blind tooling to board edges endleaves renewed. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to board edges corners bumped and lightly worn. Light toning to interior light soiling in a few places faint dampstain to lower gutter of pp. 10-16 light foxing and pencil marks to a few leaves margins trimmed close affecting text headline on last page only without loss to legibility illegible early owner initials to p. 1. A nice copy of a rare title. $850. Only edition. A detailed list of the names of those serving in Parliament with additional information about their notable recent votes. An interesting complement is the list of the names and places of abode in Britain of the trustees and commissioners for the colony of Georgia established by royal charter in 1732. These include James Oglethorpe the colony's founder and the Earl of Egmont president of the trustees. OCLC and the ESTC locate 5 copies of this title 3 in North America University of Georgia University of Virginia John Carter Brown Library. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC N48489. unknown books
1840ref. 733671840. London: Henry Kent Causton Birchin Lane 1840. London: Henry Kent Causton Birchin Lane 1840. A Response to a Recently Enacted Parliamentary Privilege Parliament. Great Britain. Precedents on Privilege: A Review of the Prerogative of the People in Parliament. London: Henry Kent Causton 1840. iv 120 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet untrimmed edges signatures unopened. Moderate toning light soiling to exterior creasing to upper outside corner of text block "With the Author's Compliments" to head of title page. $450. Only edition. This essay is a strongly negative response to the Parliamentary Papers Act of 1840 which stipulated that publications issued for circulation by Members of Parliament are protected by absolute privilege against civil or criminal proceedings. OCLC locates 1 copy at the University of Heidelberg. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
1650ref. 740221650. Royalist Estates "Confiscated to the Use of the Commonwealth" Broadside. Parliament. Die Martis 23 Julii 1650. Resolves of Parliament Concerning Such Delinquents as Have Not Paid in their Fines According to Compositions. London: Printed by Iohn Field Printer to the Parliament of England 1650. 13-1/4" x 8-3/4" broadside mounted and matted on 20" x 14-1/2" board text in single column below headline and woodcut Parliamentary arms with a four-line woodcut initial signed in type by Henry Scobell. Moderate toning light soiling in places light browning and wear to top-edge not affecting text or image fold line to upper right corner. $1500. Near the beginning of the first English Civil War Parliament established two committees to confiscate the estates of Royalists and process the fines owed by "delinquents" who could regain their land with a monetary fee and a promise of future loyalty to the Parliamentarian cause. The fines were then used to fund the Parliamentarian army. This order threatens total confiscation of land within eighty miles of London if the delinquents did not pay. Our broadside is one of three similar variants with the same date; the present variant lists John Field as the sole printer. OCLC Library Hub and the ESTC locate 3 copies worldwide British Library Trinity College Dublin Yale University. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC R225774. unknown books
1871ref. 161381871. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the parliamentary investigation of infant welfare paid infant care mortality and state regulation in Victorian Britain. The report documents the emerging system of infant life protection through committee proceedings witness testimony appendices and an index revealing how legislators gathered medical legal and social evidence to define infant neglect as a matter requiring public oversight. Produced one year before the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 the volume provides primary-source evidence for the study of child welfare law women's labor and caregiving economies public health regulation infant mortality and the legal history of "baby farming" a term used in nineteenth-century debates over paid care for infants. The 1872 legislation has been identified by historians as Britain's first infant life protection legislation making this parliamentary report important to the documentary record behind early state intervention in private infant care. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. 328 pp. Rebound in modern cloth. The report includes the committee's formal proceedings minutes of evidence appendix and index giving the volume a structured evidentiary record rather than a general policy summary. Its contents outline testimony and documentary material on infant care outside the immediate family social conditions affecting infant survival legal deficiencies and the need for enforceable protections. As a government publication it shows the mechanisms of parliamentary fact-finding in practice: evidence was collected organized indexed and converted into a legislative record that helped frame infant protection as a matter of law public health and social administration. The report belongs to the broader nineteenth-century movement toward state scrutiny of child welfare women's caregiving labor and domestic arrangements previously treated as private matters. Its timing matters because it precedes the 1872 Act and captures the evidentiary process by which infant mortality and paid infant nursing entered the legislative sphere. First few pages including title page with small loss at right page edge not affecting legibility; handwritten page numbers in upper right corners throughout; pages bright and clean; overall good. A substantial parliamentary source for research into Victorian child welfare infant mortality gendered labor public health law and the development of modern protective regulation. unknown books
1891ref. 675561891. Debates in Parliament 1892-1908 Great Britain. Parliament. The Parliamentary Debates Fourth Series. London: Reuter's Telegram Co. and Others 1892-1908. 136 of 199 volumes lacking Volumes 16-77 1893-1899 and 100 1901. Contemporary cloth blind frames to boards gilt titles to spine. Several volumes bound in three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards some with cloth-reinforced spines a few bound in recent buckram. Moderate to heavy shelfwear with chipping to spine ends most hinges cracked several boards loose or detached interiors clean. Ex-law school library. Location labels to spines bookplates and other markings to pastedowns and endleaves. $1995. Fourth Series. Authorized by Parliament this series was the successor to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates which succeeded the series commenced by William Cobbett in 1804. unknown books
ref. 675581980. 920 vols. of 967 lacking 47 vols. 154 linear feet. 920 vols. of 967 lacking 47 vols. 154 linear feet. Debates in the House of Commons 1909-1980 Great Britain. Parliament. Parliamentary Debates Official House of Commons. London: Printed for the Controller of H.M.S.O. 1909-1980. Vols. 1-362; 406-701; 704-898; 900-965; 967. Together 920 volumes. Lacking vols. 363-405 702 703 899 and 966. One hundred fifty-four 154 linear feet of shelf space. Contemporary cloth blind frames to boards blind fillets and gilt titles to spine a few volumes bound in similar-style later cloth. Light to moderate shelfwear some hinges cracked or starting interiors clean. Ex-law school library. Shelf location labels to foot of spines property stamps to edges bookplates and other markings to pastedowns and endleaves. $1995. New Series. Authorized by Parliament this series was the successor to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates which succeeded the series commenced by William Cobbett in 1804. unknown books
1734ref. 664601734. Scarce Collection of Statutes Concerning Election to the House of Commons Great Britain. Parliament. The Statutes At Large Concerning Elections Of Members To Serve In The House Of Commons; Containing a Compleat Collection of All the Acts of Parliament Now in Force Which Relate Thereto Continued to the End of the Last Session of Parliament 1734. London: Printed by John Baskett 1734. vi 73 64-109 17 10 pp. Complete. Text continuous despite pagination. Octavo 6-1/4" x 3-3/4". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to text negligible foxing to a few leaves. Ex-library. Small inkstamps to title page and several other leaves. A nice copy in a handsome binding. $125. Second edition enlarged 1 of 2 issues from 1734. Added here is an act pertaining to elections in the Scottish Parliament. The first edition was published in 1733. Separate editions for Scotland were published in 1744 and 1747. English Short-Title Catalogue T78250. unknown books
1734ref. 607741734. London: Printed by John Baskett 1734. 2nd Enl. ed. London: Printed by John Baskett 1734. 2nd Enl. ed. Scarce Collection of Statutes Concerning Election to the House of Commons Great Britain. Parliament. The Statutes At Large Concerning Elections Of Members To Serve In The House Of Commons; Containing a Compleat Collection of All the Acts of Parliament Now in Force Which Relate Thereto Continued to the End of the Last Session of Parliament 1734. London: Printed by John Baskett 1734. vi 58 49-109 11 6 10 pp. Complete. Text continuous despite pagination. Octavo 6-1/2" x 3-1/2". Recent period-style quarter morocco over marbled boards lettering piece and gilt-edges raised bands to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to text faint dampstaining to upper corners of a few leaves internally clean. A handsome copy. $250. Second edition enlarged. Added here is an act pertaining to elections in the Scottish Parliament. The first edition was published in 1733. Separate editions for Scotland were published in 1744 and 1747. English Short-Title Catalogue T78250. unknown books
1680ref. 131051680. POPISH PLOT. England. Parliament. A True Copy of the Journal-Book of the Last Parliament . Wherein is Comprised a Fuller and Further Discovery of the Popish Plot.London: Printed in the year 1680. 8vo. 6 104 97-105 108-203 "194" 177-316 p. Text complete despite erratic pagination front and rear blanks wanting. Modern utilitarian cloth covers warped. Text very browned and margins very brittle. Complete but good at best. The Popish Plot. Wing E2748. unknown books
1648ref. 128971648. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. A Declaration of the Parliament of England Concerning a Paper Subscribed by the Commissioners of Scotland Dated 24 Febr. 1649/50. colophon: London: For Edward Husband Febr. 27 1648. Folio. 2 p. paginated 53-54 and signed M conjugate blank. Caption title. Modern cloth. Printer's imprint on verso of first leaf. unknown books
1681ref. 129011681. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. The Proceedings of the Honourable House of Commons who met at Oxford March 21. 1680/1. London: For John Peacock 1681. Folio. 2 12 4 p. Modern cloth. Title a trifle dusty. Wing E2685. unknown books
1791ref. 117841791. GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT. Correct List of the Minority on Mr. Grey's Motions . on the Approach of a Russian War. London: For J. Debrett 1791. 16 p. Printed in red ink with the exception of pages 2-3. Removed. Very good. On becoming involved in the war. ESTC records only six copies. unknown books
1718ref. 113671718. GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Three Speeches against Continuing the Army &c. as they were Spoken in the House of Commons. London: For John Morphew 1718. 46 p. Disbound. First and last few leaves browned. Speeches by W. Shippen E. Jeffreys and Sir. T. Hanmer. Goldsmiths' 5503. unknown books
1657ref. 79081657. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. An Act for the Attainder of the Rebels in Ireland. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September . 1656. London: Henry Hills and John Field 1657. Fol. 2 24 p. final blank G2. Modern boards leather spine label. Light dampstain in margins of a few leaves. Printed in Black letter. Wing E1092. unknown books
1681ref. 128991681. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. The Debates in the House of Commons Assembled at Oxford the Twenty First of March 1680. colophon: London: For R. Baldwin 1681. Folio. 20 p. Modern cloth. The Exclusion Bill to prevent the Duke of York from becoming the popish successor to the throne. Wing E2546. unknown books
1767ref. 1098111767. First Edition. CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERS ACT. Act to enable His Majesty to put the Customs and other Duties in the British Dominions in America and the Execution of the Laws relating to Trade there under the Management of Commissioners. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Folio 20th-century marbled stiff paper boards. $3200.Rare first printing of the 1767 Customs Commissioners Act one of the controversial Townshend Acts that united patriot opposition to British rule and provoked the Boston Massacre.Following the Stamp Act which had united colonial opinion against British authority ""as no issue beforeÉ a new period of agitation began in 1767 with the passage of the Townshend Acts"" Morison Sources xv. Engineered by Charles Townshend Chancellor of the Exchequer these were intended to raise revenue from the American colonies by imposing duties on goods Americans were already forced to import only from England punish New York's opposition to the Quartering Act and establish a board of customs commissioners in America. This is the first printing of that Customs Commissioners Act. ""To guarantee that colonial duties raised as much money as he had promised to Parliament Townshend was tightening control over America's slack customs procedures"" by appointing commissioners in England and sending them to Boston ""with broad powers. Since colonial jurors rarely convicted a local merchant of smuggling Townshend's acts set up new admiralty courts that could try smugglers without a jury. And the acts made it easier for customs officials to obtain writs of assistance"" Langguth 93. In addition ""the moneys thus raised in the coloniesÉ were to be usedÉ to render the royal governors and judges independent of colonial assemblies"" Morison xv. To Samuel Adams ""these new commissioners of customs were 'the greatest political curses that could be sent amongst usÉ From the time the acts took effect November 20 1767 many Bostonians had been boycotting luxury goods from Britain by signing a 'nonimportation agreementÉ Stricter enforcement at the customs offices was drawing off hard currency from America and bad times were spreading across the colonies"" Langguth 94 102-103. With increased colonial opposition to the Customs Commissioners Act and other Townshend laws ""the customs administration to enforce them became especially in ports like BostonÉ increasingly militarized"" provoking merchants such as John Hancock into ""calling one of his sloops Liberty and flaunting his intention of 'running Madeira ashore"" Schama History of Britain II:463. The day after the Liberty was seized by customs officials Sam Adams was overheard challenging the crowd ""If you are men behave like men. Let us take up arms immediately and be free and seize all the king's officers"" Langguth 98. With the Board of Commissioners of the Customs headquartered in Boston the city became the ""rowdiest of all the centers of protest"" and those who broke the boycott were often tarred and feathered. As tempers grew shorter and customs officers were accused of bribery and extortion matters often ""got completely out of control. On 23 February 1770 an eleven-year-old boy Christopher Seider joined by a noisy protest of schoolboys and apprentices outside the shop of an importerÉ was shot dead by a customs officer"" and his funeral turned into a mass protest led by Sam Adams. Only one month later on March 5th amidst these already heightened tensions ""a wigmaker's apprentice ragged a soldier all the way to the Custom House for an allegedly unpaid bill. When a guard struck the pursuing youth a tocsin normally used as a fire alarm was sounded and mobilized a large and angry crowd"" Schama History of Britain II 463. In the melee that followed the redcoats opened fire killing fiveÑamong them Crispus AttucksÑand the day would be memorialized in history as the Boston Massacre. Printed in gothic type indicative of the first edition. This first printing excised from the Sessional Volumes of Parliament pages 563-66 precedes all American printings. Minor rubbing spine. Very nearly fine condition. hardcover books
1562ref. 1278941562. HENRY VIII PARLIAMENT. Acts. Anno XXXIIII et. V. Henrici VIII. London: T. Powell 1562. Slim folio 8 by 11-1/2 inches modern full brown morocco. $3800.Early edition of the Parliamentary Acts of 1542 featuring 25 acts featuring the important Act for the Advancement of True Religion and the first English act dealing with Bankruptcy finely printed in black-letter with lovely historiated woodcut initials.The first and most important act passed by the Parliament in 1542 banned the reading or owning of the Bible in EnglishÑat that point Tyndale's translationÑin England for most of the population. Exceptions were made for the clergy the gentry wealthy merchants and the wives of the gentry and nobility who were only allowed to read it in private effectively barring the Bible in English from the vast majority of the population. By the time of the act's passage Tyndale was already dead executed near Brussels in 1536 after being convicted of heresy for his promotion of theology influenced by Martin Luther. And Tyndale himself had never actually published a full Bible in English having only managed individual publications of the New Testament the Pentateuch and a few other books of the bible; the first full Bible in English was actually produced by Miles Coverdale in 1536 based heavily on Tyndale's earlier publications. The act also banned numerous other categories of books although it did provide exceptions for ""statutes and lawes of the realme cronicles Canturbury tales Chaucers bookes Gowers bookes and stories of menns lives."" The acts from this year are also notable for containing the Statute of Bankrupts the first codification of law for bankruptcy in England. First published in 1543 with several editions or issues following soon after; this is one of two editions published in 1562. Without the acts for Wales. STC 9409. Foxing to a few leaves mild dampstaining to inner margin of some early leaves but text readable and clear; handsomely bound. Rare. unknown books
1698ref. 28977Saintes: De L'Imprimerie de Marie Bichon 1698. 2 pages. Ornamental headpiece. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound. Minor marginal discoloration tear in right margin of first page not affecting text else excellent. 2 pages. Ornamental headpiece. 1 vols. 4to. The law against "Filles & des Femmes qui celent leur grossesse & leurs accouchemens faisant perir leurs enfans durant leur grossesse par des avortemens ou aprés leur accouchement par le fer ou autrement & en l'un & l'autre de ces cas; Il a été imposé des peines trés severes par les Lois divines & humaines soit que l'engrant dont la Femme se fait aborter fût formé ou vivant & animé parce que l'action par laquelle une Femme empêche un Homme d'Ietre formé & animé est un homicide." The decree issued by Dalon Avocat General du Roy this being the an issuance from Saintes. De L'Imprimerie de Marie Bichon unknown books
1760ref. 339119London: John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; and others 1760. Together approx. 35 Acts each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Disbound. Some with foxing some trimmed a few leaves detached. Overall very good. A couple in duplicate. Together approx. 35 Acts each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Includes the following: An Act for the Continuing the Liberty of Exporting Irish Linen Cloth to the British Plantations in Amerca Duty-free 1717 An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Pensilvania in America 1727 An Act for the better Preservation of His Majesty's Woods in America 1729 An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Colony of New York in America 1730 An Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in America directly into Ireland Goods not enumerated in any Act of Parliament 1731 An Act to explain and Act . intituled An Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in America 1732 An Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in His Majesty's Plantations and Colonies in America 1732 An Act for granting a Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1739 An Act for the more effectual securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's British Subjects to America 1739 An Act for the more easy and effectual Conviction of Offenders found at large within the Kingdom of Great Britain after they have been ordered for Transportartion to America 1742 An Act for further regulating the Plantation Trade 1742 An Act to revive several Acts . relating to Rice to Frauds in Customs to the clandestine running of Goods and to Copper Ore of the British Plantations 1742 An Act for continuing several LAws relating to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America 1743 An Act to continue Two Acts of Parliament . for encouraging the Growth of Coffee . for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1746 An Act for the better encouragement of the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1746 An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act . for Naturalizing Foreign Protestants . in America 1747 two copies An Act for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America 1748 An Act for encouraging the People known by the name of Unitas Fratrum or United Brethren to settle in . America 1749 three copies An Act to encourage the Importation of Pig and Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America 1750 An Act for encouraging the Growth and Culture of Raw Silk in . America. 1750 An Act for encouraging the making of Pott Ashes and Pearl Ashes in . America 1750 An Act for continuing several Laws . upon the importation of Masts 1751 An Act for avoiding and putting and end to certain doubts and questions . concerning Real Estates . in America. 1752 An Act for reducing the number of Directors of the Corportatioin of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America 1753 An Act for continuing several Laws . and for the encourging the trade of the Sugar Colonies in America 1753 An Act for continuing an Act . for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America 1755 An Act for extending the Act . as shall serve on Board His Majesty's Ships or Vessels employed upon the Lakes Great Waters or Rivers in North America 1756 An Act to enable His Majesty to grant Commissions to a certain number of Foreign Protestants . in America 1756 An Act to extend the Liberty . of importing Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America 1757 An Act to prohibit for a limited time the exportation of corn grain meal malt flour bread biscuit starch beef pork bacon . from His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America 1757 An Act to continue . a Liberty to carry sugars of the growth produce or manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1758 An Act for continuing certain laws . and to the Encouragement of the Trade of the Sugar Colonies in America 1758 An Act to continue several laws . to the encouraging the growth of Coffee in His Majesty's Plantations in America 1759 An Act to continue several laws . to the granting Liberty to carry Rice from his Majesty's Province of Carolina in America 1760. John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; [and others] unknown books
1752ref. 319975London: John Baskett 1752. 2 411-415 1 blankpp. WITH: Two additional acts of parliament continuing the above act from 1738 and 1752. 3 vols. Folio. Disbound. Minor foxing. 2 411-415 1 blankpp. WITH: Two additional acts of parliament continuing the above act from 1738 and 1752. 3 vols. Folio. Coffee plants were first introduced to Jamaica in 1730. John Baskett unknown books
1733ref. 319970London: Thomas Baskett 1733. pp. 2 443-455 1 blank. Woodcut seal on the title. Folio. Disbound. Foxing trimmed. pp. 2 443-455 1 blank. Woodcut seal on the title. Folio. This Parliamentary Act authorized a grant of £10000 "for establishing the colony of Georgia in America to be applied toward defraying the charges of carrying over and settling foreign and other Protestants in the said colony" p. 448. The act further authorizes the application of £500000 from the sinking fund to pay off one million South Sea annuities. Not in Sabin Howes Rich Church Streeter or De Renne. Thomas Baskett unknown books
1650ref. 1053401650. PARLIAMENT. BroadsideÑEnglish Civil War. Westminster: Edward Husband and John Field 27 September 1650. Broadside trimmed 10-1/4 by 9 inches mounted on a larger sheet of paper. $2500.Dramatic printed broadside from the English Civil War ordering the burning of an ""impious and blasphemous book.""This broadside calls for the arrest imprisonment and then exile of author Laurence Clarkson and the seizure of his book The Single Eye which earned the censure of the government. The document reads in part: ""Upon report from the Committee for suppressing licentious and impious practices under pretence of Religion Liberty &c. The Confession of Laurence Clarkson touching the making and publishing of the impious and blasphemous book called The Single EyeÉ the said Laurence Clarkson is to be forthwith sent to the House of Correction there to be kept to labor for one Moneth and from that time to be Banished out of this Commonwealth and the Territories thereof and not to return upon pain of DeathÉ the book called The Single Eye and all printed copies thereof are to be forthwith seized and burnt by the hand of the Common Hangman in the New-Palace at Westminster and upon the Exchange; and that the Lord Major and Sheriffs of London and Middlesex be required to cause the same to be done accordingly."" Those in possession of the book are also ""required and enjoined forthwith to deliver the same to the next Justice of the PeaceÉ who are hereby required to cause the same to be publiquely burned."" Another man named in this broadside Mr. Rainborow is stripped of his duties as a Justice of the Peace in Middlesex County and forbidden from returning to that position anywhere in England or Wales. Wing E2432. Goldsmiths 1188. Upper margin trimmed a little closely affecting the printed seal at the head of the document. Near-fine condition. unknown books
1755ref. 375741755. First Edition. PARLIAMENT. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Vicesimo OctavoÉ London: Thomas Baskett 1755. Folio contemporary full paneled calf gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands gilt-stamped arms of George II to front and rear covers. $2800.First edition of the laws passed by Parliament in 1755 handsomely bound in contemporary paneled calf-gilt stamped with the gilt arms of King George II.Includes an act for regulating places of public entertainment an act for making more effectual the laws prohibiting the importation of spirituous liquors and of tea found on any British ship not belonging to the East India Company acts for the better supply of mariners and seamen to serve in His Majesty's Ships of War and to better enforce discipline of His Majesty's marine forces while on shore and a continuance of an act for encouraging the making of indigo in the American colonies. This collection prints the full text of the 25 most important acts of the year each with an abstract at rear and a table of other acts passed during the year but not printed in this collection. Contemporary calf with expected age wear and restoration to joints spine ends and corners. A very good attractively bound copy with the gilt arms of King George II. hardcover books
1971ref. bas170Shannon Ireland: Irish University Press 1971. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Colonies West Indies Volume 8. Facsimile reprint of the 1898 edition. Folio quarter cloth hardcover 466 pp. Near-Fine. Irish University Press, 1971. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers hardcover books
