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political, religious, military, naval, legal and social history. 
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Richard Field: OF THE CHURCH, FIVE BOOKES - 1635
"Among the grandest monuments of polemical divinity."

The Case Between CHURCH OF ROME & CHURCH OF ENGLAND 1713
[Charles Leslie:] The Case Stated, Between the Church of Rome and the 
Church of England. Wherein is shewed, that the Doubt and the Danger is 
in the Former, and the Certainty and Safety in the Latter Communion. 
London: George Strahan, 1713

LIFE OF NICHOLAS RIDLEY, BISHOP OF LONDON - 1763
	ENGLISH REFORMATION - QUEEN MARY - MARTYRDOM
The Rev. Glocester Ridley: Life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Sometime Bishop 
of London: Shewing the Plan and Progress of the Reformation. In Which 
He Was a Principal Instrument, and Suffered Martyrdom for it in the 
Reign of Queen Mary. London: Whiston and White, 1763. First edition.

Brady - INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH HISTORY - 1684
	JACOBITE LEGAL HISTORY - CHARLES II - JAMES II
Robert Brady: An Introduction to the Old English History, Comprehended 
in Three Several Tracts... London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Samuel 
Lowndes, over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1684.

CHARACTERS - Eminent Personages in PARLIAMENT - 1777
	AMERICAN REVOLUTION Edmund Burke PITT Fox LORD NORTH
Characters. Containing an impartial review of the public conduct and 
abilities of the most eminent personages in the Parliament of 
Great-Britain: considered as statesmen, senators, and public speakers. 
London: J. Bew [et al], 1777. First edition.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT OF GREAT-BRITAIN 1729
	SLAVE TRADE West Indies SPAIN Naval History PIRACY
A handsome copy of this famous, vituperative defense of Robert 
Walpole's Whig administration, which had come under attack for doing 
little or nothing in the face of Spain's depradations against British 
shipping in the West Indies and South Atlantic. Contains a great deal 
relating to Admiral Hosier's and other British expeditions to the West 
Indies against the Spaniards, and includes a 4-PAGE TABLE OF BRITISH 
MERCHANT SHIPS captured or plundered by Spanish privateers and others. 
This work brought forth the equally famous — and even nastier — 
response from Lord Bolingbroke, The Craftsman Extraordinary,  setting 
off one of the liveliest exchanges of fire in the whole history of 
18th-century England's Pamphlet Wars.

LORD BOLINGBROKE - THE CRAFTSMAN EXTRAORDINARY 1729
[Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount:] The Craftsman Extraordinary. 
Being Remarks on a Late Pamphlet, intitled, Observations on the Conduct 
of Great Britain, &c. Published by Caleb d'Anvers, Esq. [Nicholas 
Amhurst]. London, 1729. First Edition.

SAMUEL JOHNSON William Hamilton - PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK
William Gerard Hamilton; Samuel Johnson: Parliamentary Logick: to which 
are subjoined two speeches delivered in the House of Commons of 
Ireland, and other pieces; With an appendix, containing Considerations 
on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson. Never before printed. London: 
Printed by C. and R. Baldwin, for T. Payne, 1808. Includes the first 
appearance in print of Johnson's tract on the corn laws, written for 
his friend Hamilton in 1766.

EDMUND LUDLOW MEMOIRS  - ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Regicide
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow. With a collection of original papers, and the 
case of King Charles the first. London: T. Becket [etc.], 1771. First 
edition thus.

LORD HALIFAX - Miscellanies - 1704 - STUART SOCIETY
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax: Miscellanies by the late Lord 
Marquis of Halifax. Viz. I. Advice to a daughter. II The character of a 
trimmer. III. The anatomy of an equivalent. IV. A letter to a 
dissenter. V. Cautions for choice of Parliament men. VI. A rough 
draught of a new model at sea. VII. Maxims of state, &c. London: 
Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun against St. Dunstan's Church [etc.], 
1704.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION Queen Anne WILLIAM AND MARY
	A Refutation of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough - 1742
The Other Side of the Question: or, An attempt to Rescue the Characters 
of the Two Royal Sisters Q. Mary and Q. Anne, out of the Hands of the 
D---s D---- of ---------- , in which all the remarkables in her Grace’s 
late account are stated in their full strength, and as fully answer’d; 
the conduct of several noble persons is justify’d; and all the 
necessary lights are thrown on our court-history from the Revolution, 
to the change of the ministry in 1710. In a letter to Her Grace. By a 
Woman of Quality. London : Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. First Edition.

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