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• The ancient history of Bridgwater and its neighbourhood; also poems connected therewith. (Page, 1877), by George Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bridgewater in the later days; being a succeeding volume to "The ancient borough of Bridgewater," (Page and son, 1908), by Arthur Herbert Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The siege of Bridgwater (East Gate Press, 1929), by C. Trenchard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A fuller relation from Bridgewater since the last fight:: wherein is declared the fierce and terrible storming of the town, by firing it in three severall places, and the necessity thereof: / sent to the Honorable, William Lenthall Esq; Speaker to the House of Commons. By a worthy gentleman in Sir Tho: Fairfax his army. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London : Printed for Edw. Husband, printer to the Honourable House of Commons, Iuly 26. 1645), by Worthy Gentleman in Sir Thomas Fairfax His Army, William Lenthall, and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief relation of the taking of Bridgewater by the Parliaments forces under the command of Sir Tho: Fairfax;: and therein, all the Lord Gorings train, 36. pieces of ordnance, 2000. prisoners, 800. horse, with great store of oxen. Sent in a letter to the Committee of both Kingdoms. Together with a letter concerning the delivering up of Pontefract Castle by treaty to the use of the Parliament, with all things therein. Also, hopes of reducing Scarbrough by treaty. Sent to the Honorable, William Lenthall Esq; Speaker to the House of Commons. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London : Printed for Edw. Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Iuly 25. 1645), by Samuel Bedford, Francis Pierrepont, and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true copie of a letter sent from an inhabitant of Bridgewater in the county of Somerset which is now under the command of His Majesties forces unto a quartermaster of a troope of horse belonging to the westerne brigade : wherein is set forth the certainty of the landing of 1000 Irish rebels at Mynehead in the said county and of divers others landed at Bristol : together with the governour of Bridgewater his speech to restraine the garrison Souldiers from going to Mynehead to suppresse the progresse of the rebels. (London : Printed for Richard Lownes ..., 1643), by Henry Davy (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The copy of a letter from Edmund Prideaux, Esq. ... to a member of the committees now residing in York wherein is set down many particulars touching Bridgwater, ... viz. how many considerable persons, knights, collonels, serjeant-majors, and other officers &c. with great store of ammunition were taken there : also 14 articles agreed and concluded upon concerning the rendition of Pontefract Castle for the use of King and Parliament. ([S.l. : s.n, 1645?]), by Edmond Prideaux (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sir Thomas Fairfax's letter to the Honorable William Lenthall Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons; of all the particulars concerning the taking of Bridgewater. Together with a list of the persons of quality, and prisoners taken in the fight and town. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London, : Printed for Edw. Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Iuly 28. 1645), by Thomas Fairfax Fairfax, William Lenthall, and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir Thomas Fairfaxes entring Bridgewater by storming; on Munday last. In which town he took from the enemy; [brace] 4. colonels. 50. captaines, lieutenants, and other officers. 500. prisoners, whereof some papists. 60. horse. 1. Great piece of ordnance, in the royall fort. The royall fort also taken. Mr. Harvey's house taken. And a list of all the particulars, and what losse was on both sides; and the manner of the fight: and in what posture the rest remains in those holds where they lye. Also, the termes tendred by Sir Hugh Cholmley, for the surrender of Scarborough castle. Commanded to be printed, and published according to order. (London, : Printed by B. Alsop, and I. Coe., 1645) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The ancient borough of Bridgewater in the county of Somerset (Page and son, 1907), by Arthur Herbert Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of Bridgwater and its neighbourhood : a poem : To which notes are added containing a history of the siege of the town by Fairfax and also the Battle of Sedgmoor. (T.H. Bodley, 1854), by George Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The case of Robert Balch of Bridgwater gent., sitting member of Parliament for the borough of Bridgwater, in the county of Sommerset, petitioned against by John Gardner of London merchant. ([London : s.n., 1692]), by Robert Balch (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Letter from the inhabitants of Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England to the inhabitants of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, New England, America : dated Sept. 10, 1846 : with the reply of the latter, dated Feb. 10, 1847. (Printed by Andrews & Prentiss, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on flint chips and pre-historic phases at Tutnall, near Bromsgrove. ("Messenger" Office, 1886), by William Alfred Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
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• Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
• Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines (D. Appleton & company, 1854), by Mrs. S. C. Hall and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent. With the dissolved monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have been therein interred. As also, the death and burial of certain of the blood-royal, nobility and gentry of these kingdoms, emtombed in foreign nations ... (Printed by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767), by John Weever and William Tooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of notable men and women. (Nimmo, 1889), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of England and Germany, 1936 ([K. B. O'Ferrall?], 1937), by Kirk Bassett O'Ferrall and Mich.) St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shopshire yeomanry cavalry; with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1900), by Nimrod, Thomas J. Rawlins, Joseph Grego, and Henry Thomas Alken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads ; intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits ... (London : Printed for J. Rivington and Sons [etc.], 1779., 1779), by James Granger and Joseph Addison Alexander Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the character and services of the late Duke of Wellington : delivered before the British residents of Boston and vicinity, and their American friends, at the Melodeon, Nov. 10, 1852 (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by G. P. R. James and Mass.) Melodeon (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old convict days (T. F. Unwin, 1899), by William Derricourt and Louis Becke (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life as soldier and sportsman (G. Richards, 1921), by J. Robson Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of old Friends : being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871 (J.B. Lippincott, 1882), by Caroline Fox and Horace N. Pym (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shropshire yeomanry cavalry : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits (D. Appleton, 1903), by Nimrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and correspondence of John, Lord Teignmouth (Hatchard, 1843), by Charles John Shore Teignmouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters containing an account of the late revolution in France, and observations on the constitution, laws, manners, and institutitons of the English (Printed for J. Johnson, 1792), by Henry Frederic Groenvelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the warriors of the civil wars of France and England Warriors of the seventeenth century. (J. Murray, 1867), by Edward Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Englishmen of the nineteenth century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson, Russell. Cobden, Peel, Shaftesbury, Palmersto, Gladstone, Disraeli, by James Richard Joy. (The Chautanqua Press, 1902), by James Richard Joy and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A family biography, 1662 to 1908 : drawn chiefly from old letters (J. Nisbet, 1908), by Isabella Scott and Catherine Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imaginative biography (Saunders and Otley, 1834), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences for my children. Private.. (Printed for the author by Charles Thurnam., 1836), by Catherine Mary Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kenneth Gorden Garnett, M.C., R.F.A. : 30th July 1892-22 August 1917. (Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1917), by R. S. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profils anglais (J. Dent ;, 1911), by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes and haunts of the wise and good (W. P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Joshua Reynolds, William Thomas Fry, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Record of a girlhood (R. Bentley and son, 1879), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in biography and criticism. (Gould and Lincoln, 1857), by Peter Bayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statesmen of the commonwealth of England : with a treatise on the popular progress in English history (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), by John Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the abbots of Wearmouth (F. Graham, 1973), by the Venerable Bede and Peter Wilcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wordsworth and the Coleridges : with other memories, literary and political (Folcroft Library Editions, 1978), by Ellis Yarnall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men who have risen : a book for boys. (James Miller, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second funeral of Napoleon. (Estes and Lauriat, 1882), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgan Brierley, a memoir : with a selection from his writings (J. Clegg, 1900), by Morgan Brierley and Helen Brierley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir James A. Picton : a biography (Isbister & Co. ;, 1891), by J. Allanson Picton (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's worthies under whom, all the civill and bloudy warres since anno 1642, to anno 1647, are related. : Wherein are described the severall battails, encounters, and assaults of cities, townes, and castles at severall times and places; so that the reader may behold the time, years, and event of every battle, skirmish and assault. Wherein London-apprentices had not the least share, as also , severall victories by sea, by the noble Admirall, Robert Earle of Warwick. (Rothwell, 1845), by John Vicars (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Maria Vernon Graham Havergal : with journals and letters (J. Nisbet, 1888), by Maria V. G. Havergal and J. Miriam Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines. (A. Hall, Virtue, & co., 1850), by Mrs. S. C. Hall, Roger Du Broff, and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders upward and onward. Brief biographies of noble workers. (Isbister and Company, Limited, 1887), by Henry C. Ewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour. (Printed by C. Crookes, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads ; intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits ... (London : Printed for T. Davies, J. Robson [etc.], 1775., 1775), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nonconformist's Memorial : being an account of the lives, sufferings, and printed works of the two thousand ministers ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of Uniformity, Aug. 24, 1666 (Printed for J. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy and Samuel Miller Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)

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