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Some reasons given against an opinion that a person infected with the small-pox may be cured by antidote without incurring the distemper: ... By Thomas Frewen, M.D.

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Two unfortunate lovers, or, a true relation of the lamentable end of Iohn True, and Susan Mease their lives thiss ditty doth relate, and how they dy'd unfortunate. To the tune of, The brides buriall.

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A collection of poetical essays: Consisting of I. An elegy on a pile of sacred ruins; ... VI. Ode to peace, &c. By J.B. of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Loues sacrifice A tragedie receiued generally well. Acted by the Queenes Majesties Seruants at the Phœnix in Drury-lane.

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Stephen Burroughs's sermon, delivered in Rutland, on a hay mow, to his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the author's Memoirs, p. 90, 91, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion.

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Strange and terrible nevves from Cambridge a true relation of the Quakers bewitching of Mary Philips out of the bed from her husband in the night, and transformed her into the shape of a bay mare, riding her from Dinton, towards the University : with the manner how she became visible again to the people in her own likeness and shape, with her sides all rent and torn, as if they had been spur-gal'd, her hands and feet worn as black as a coal, and her mouth slit with the bridle bit : likewise her speech to the scholars and countrey-men, upon this great and wonderful change, her oath before the judges and justices, and the names of the Quakers brought to tryal on Friday last at the assises held at Cambridge, with the judgment of the court : as also the Devil's snatching of one from his company, and hoisting of him up into the air, with what hapned thereupon.

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Englands tryumph, and Hollands downfall; or, the second royal victory, obtained upon the Hollanders fleet, in a sea-fight, by the King of Great Brittains [sic] Royal Navy, under the conduct of his Highness Prince Rupert, and his Grace, George Duke of Albemarle; as it was heroically fought, and undoubtfully disputed on the 1, 2d, 3d, & 4th of June, 1666. To the tune of, A fig for France and Holland too, &c.

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A strange and horrible relation of a bloody and inhumane murther commttted on the body of a Jewish vvoman, by the command of her father a Jewish priest. Or The bloody servant being a full and true account of the tryal, condemnation, and execution, of the barbarious murther lately committed in Shropshire by one John Adams, who cut the throat first of Anne Harris, his masters wife, and afterwards of Sarah Harris her daughter, with a knife (as he said) given him for that purpose by the Devil, and then having robb'd them of what mony they had, set fire on the house.

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At the court at Whitehal, September the 11th 1667 by His Majesty and the lords of His Majesties Most Honorable Privy Council.

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At the court at Hampton-Court the 28th day of July 1681 ...

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Englands rejoicing at that happy day that peace and truth may bear sway, being th' election of that thing, in chusing us a royal king, to the tune of, Gallant souldiers [sic] do not muse.

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Look abovt yov or, A groatsworth of good councel for a peny : being variety of councels, cautions, caveats, and directions : which, as they are necessary for young-men; so they are not to be rejected by old-men.

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A looking-glasse for a drunkard or a drunkard defined.

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Pelagos. Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An improvement of the sea, upon the nine nautical verses in the 107. Psalm; wherein is handled I. The several, great, and many hazzards, that mariners do meet withall, in stormy and tempestuous seas. II. Their many, several, miraculous, and stupendious deliverances out of all their helpless, and shiftless distressess [sic]. III. A very full, and delightful description of all those many various, and multitudinous objects, which they behold in their travels (through the Lords Creation) both on sea, in sea, and on land. viz. all sorts and kinds of fish, foul, and beasts, whether wilde, or tame; all sorts of trees, and fruits; all sorts of people, cities, towns, and countries; with many profitable, and useful rules, and instructions for them that use the seas. / By Daniel Pell, preacher of the Word.

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A letter from William Penn, proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons, and produce ... of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs, and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch &c. ... as also an account of the city of Philadelphia ... with a portraiture or plat-form thereof ...

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Concubinage and poligamy disprov'd, or, The divine institution of marriage betwixt one man, and one woman only, asserted in answer to a book, writ by John Butler, B.D. for which he was presented as follows : We the grand jury, sworn to enquire for the body of the city of London, on Wednesday, the first day of December, 1697, present one John Butler, for writing and publishing a wicked pamphlet : wherein he maintains concubinage to be lawful, and which may prove very destructive to divers families, if not timely suppress'd.

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A collection of divers papers presented unto the Houses of Parliament by the Commissioners of Scotland since May last, 1645.

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Thunder from heaven against the back-sliders and apostates of the times. In some meditations on the 24 chapter of Isaiah. / By W.A.

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A practical discourse concerning the redeeming of time by Edward Pelling, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to Their Majesties, and rector of Petworth in Sussex.

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The Bishops looking-glasse, or, The Clergies prospective vvherein they may cleerly see themselves in their persons, offices, in their lives and conversations : laid open by way of inquisition, by the following discourse / by R. P.

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A declaration of the grievances of the Kingdom delivered in Parliament by John Pym.

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Christs glorious appearance to judgement in two choice sermons ... / Mr. Samuel Malbon.

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Lucifers life-guard containing a schedule, list, scrovvle or catalogue, of the first and following names of the antichristian, anabaptistical, atheistical, anarchial and infernal imps, who have been actors, contrivers, abettors, murders and destroyers, of the best religion, the best government, and the best king that ever Great Britain enjoyed : together with the manner of the mournful day and lamentable burning of the Rump at Dublin in Ireland, on the evening of that solemn day, Munday May 14. 1660. on which the sacred Majesty of King Charles II. was with uninamous consent proclaimed king of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c.

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A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.

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A new discovery of Terra incognita Australis, or, The southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man, who being cast there by a shipwrack, lived 35 years in that country and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, studies and wars of those southern people, and of some animals peculiar to that place ... translated from the French copy ...

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