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The tryal and sentence of Elizabeth Cellier for writing, printing and publishing a scandalous libel called, Malice defeated &c., at the sesions in the Old-Bailey, held Saturday the 11th and Monday the 13th of Sept., 1680 whereunto is added several depositions made before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor.

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Scripture security for conscience. Reconciling the safety of truth with the safety of persons. By an honest counterplot to keep off the execution of an expected ordinance. With a Scripture catechisme very usefull in these times. For advancing unity. Suppressing errour. Stating present controversies. Vindicating the covenanted reformation.

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After debate about the printing and publishing of the orders of the 16th of January last, which followeth in these words, viz. It is this day ordered by the Lords spirtiuall and temporall, in the High Court of Parliament: that the divine service be performed, ...

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By the King a further proclamation prohibiting the exportation of corne and graine.

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the merry maid of Middlesex. Or, A pretty song made by a pretty maid, which had seven suitors, she her self so said, And yet (poor soul) she hath been strangely crost, and through her mothers means, her sweet.heart's [sic] lost: but yet she is resolved in this sonnet, to have a husband, whatsoer'e comes on it. To a dilicate northern tune: or, The maid that lost her way.

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Two letters written to a gentleman of note guilty of common swearing. By B.J.

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Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.

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A perfect discovery of witches shewing the divine cause of the distractions of this kingdome, and also of the Christian world : very profitable to bee read by all sorts of people, especially judges of assizes, sheriffes, justices of the peace, and grand-jury-men, before they passe sentence on those that are condemned for witch-craft / by Thomas Ady.

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To the Right Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Sir Paul Pyndar, Sir John Jacob, Sir Job Harby, Sir Thomas Dawes, Executor to Sir Abraham Dawes, late deceased, Sir Nicholas Crispe, Sir John Nulls, and Sir John Harrison, Knights; late contracted farmers of the customes, together with their creditors.

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Mr. Lillies late prophecy come to pass Concerning the present vvar, and the late unseasonableness of the weather. Wherein it is made manifest, whatsoever he has prognosticated of the present year, 1673. Is in great probability of proving true, from the events that have already been observed. Licensed, according to order, Iuly 10. 1673.

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By the Lords Justices, a proclamation for a general fast

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Observations upon some of His Majesties late answers and expresses

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A proclamation against papists

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Æsops fables, with the fables of Phaedrus moralized, translated verbatim, according to the Latine, for the use of grammar schooles, and for children ... / published by H.P.

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A strange encounter of two lovers or, The dying maid reviv'd. To the tune of, On the bank of a brook, &c. With allowance.

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The image of Irelande with a discouerie of vvoodkarne, wherin is moste liuely expressed, the nature, and qualitie of the saied wilde Irishe woodkarne, their notable aptnesse, celeritie, and pronesse to rebellion, and by waie of argumente is manifested their originall, and ofspryng, their descent and pedigree: also their habite and apparell, is there plainly showne. The execrable life, and miserable death of Rorie Roge, that famous archtraitour to God and the croune (otherwise called Rorie Oge) is like wise discribed. Lastlie the commyng in of Thyrlaghe Leonaghe the greate Oneale of Irelande, with the effecte of his submission, to the right honourable Sir Henry Sidney (Lorde Deputie of the saied lande) is thereto adioyned. Made and deuised by Ihon Derricke, anno 1578. and now published and set forthe by the saied authour this present yere of our Lorde 1581. for pleasure and delight of the well disposed reader.

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The treasure of trueth touching the grounde worke of man his saluation, and chiefest pointes of Christian religion: with a briefe summe of the comfortable doctrine of God his prouidence, comprised in .38. short aphorismes. VVritten in Latin by Theodore Beza, and nevvly turned into English by Iohn Stockvvood. VVhereunto are added, these godly treatises. One of the learned and godlie Father. Maister I. Foxe. In the which the chiefest poyntes of the doctrine of God his election, are so plainely set foorth, as the verie simplest may easily vnderstand it, and reape great profite thereby. The other of Maister Anthonie Gylbie, wherein the doctrine of God his election and reprobation, is both godly and learnedlie handeled. Seene and alovved, according to the order appoynted.

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The annals of the world deduced from the origin of time, and continued to the beginning of the Emperour Vespasians reign, and the totall destruction and abolition of the temple and common-wealth of the Jews : containing the historie of the Old and New Testament, with that of the Macchabees, also the most memorable affairs of Asia and Egypt, and the rise of the empire of the Roman Caesars under C. Julius, and Octavianus : collected from all history, as well sacred, as prophane, and methodically digested / by ... James Ussher ...

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Letter to His Excellency Governour Wright, giving an account of the steps taken relative to the converting the Georgia Orphan-House into a college. Together with the literary correspondence that passed upon that subject, between His Grace the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Reverend Mr. Whitefield. / By G. Whitefield, A.M. late of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon. ; [One line from Romans]

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The disease of London, or, A new discovery of the scorvey [sic] comprising the nature, manifold differences, various causes, signs, prognostics, chronology, and several methods of curing the said disease by remedies, galenical and chymical : together with anatomical observations, and discourses on convulsions, palsies, apoplexies, rheumatisms, gouts, malignant fevors, and small pox, with their methods of cure and remedies : likewise, particular observations on most of the fore-mentioned diseases / by Gideon Harvey ...

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The rise, spring and foundation of the Anabaptists, or re-baptized of our time. Written in French by Guy de Brez, 1565. Minister of the Word, and martyr. ; And translated for the use of his countrymen by J.S. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]

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Strange news from Bishops-Stafford near Buckingham. Licensed, April 26th, 1694. Amidst the various clans of enthusiasts who being led astray thro blind ways by their distemper'd brains and fantastick notions, ... such confusion and madness, I never expected to see, unless in Bedlam.

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Hieroglyphikes of the life of man. Fra: Quarles

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Diuine fancies digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations / by Fra. Quarles.

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Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in th'end certeine latine letters betwixt the sayed Maister Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.

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