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• That neither temporallitie[s] nor tythes is due to the bishops, prelates nor clergy, by a Gospel rule. And that kings, princes and lords temporal, may j[ust]ly take the temporallities and tythes from them, and dispose of the ... the defence and benefit of the kingdom, and the relief of the poor. Proved by the laws and pract[i]ce of twenty Kings of Judah, England, and France as also by the testimonies of the Universities of Oxford and Prague, fifty four of ... nobles of Bohemia and Morania, two hundred and fifty years agone, and als[o] one hundred and twenty authors beside. Together with some directions how gospel ministers ought to have maintenance, according to the gospel rule, and institutions of Iesus Christ. By E. K. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1672), by E. K. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The parsons case under the present land-tax recommended in a letter to a member of the House of Commons (London : [s.n.], 1689), by George Hooper (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An ordinance for the further doubling of two thousand pounds upon deans, deans and chapters lands, manors of rectories, gleablands, &c. (s.n., 1654), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and England and Wales. Council of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act for sale of the manors of rectories and gleab-lands late belonging to archbishops, bishops, deans, deans and chapters. (Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, Printers to the Parliament of England, 1650), by England and Wales Parliament, John Field, and Edward Husband (page images at HathiTrust)
• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : for the selling of the lands of all the bishops in the kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales, for the service of the common-wealth. With the instructions and names of all the contractors and trustees for the speedy execution of the same. (Printed for John Wright, 1646), by England and Wales Parliament and John Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. : One for the abolishing of archbishops and bishops, within the kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, and for setling of their lands and possessions upon trustees, for the use of the common-wealth: the other, for securing of all those that shall advance the two hundred thousand pound for the service of the state. (Printed for John Wright, 1646), by England and Wales Parliament and John Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Most Reverend Father in God, We greet you well, being tender of our engagement to have a care for the reasonable satisfaction of the tenants and purchasers of church lands. ... ([London : s.n., 1660]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Most Reverend Father in God, We greet you well, being tender of our engagement to have a care for the reasonable satisfaction of the tenants and purchasers of church lands ... ([London : s.n., 1660]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A breviate of the bill for relief of antient tenants of church-lands That divers persons of great loyalty, held several church lands by lease before the wars, and paid rents in time of wars to the clergy, and many of them were forced to purchase their own tenements.... ([London? : s.n., 1662]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Case concerning the buying of bishops lands. (London : Printed by James Cottrel., 1660), by Cornelius Burges (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The purchasers of bishops and deans and chapters lands, by their petition offered to this honourable House humbly shew,... ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered, why the sale of the lands, and estates, belonging to the late Bishop of Durham, should not be confirmed. ([London : s.n., 1654]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proceedings. 1646-11-30. (London : printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamy at the three golden Lions in Cornhill, near the Royall Exchange, 1647), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The parsons case under the present land-tax recommended in a letter to a member of the House of Commons (London : [s.n.], 1689), by George Hooper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An apology for purchases of lands late of bishops deans and chapters ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Antisacrilegus: or, A defensative against the plausible pest, or guilded poyson, of that nameless paper, (supposed to be the plot of Dr. C. Burges, and his partners;) which tempts the Kings Majestie by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds, to make good by an Act of Parliament to the purchasers of bishops, deans, and chapters lands, their illegal bargain, for ninety nine years. By John Gauden, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to the Kings most excellent Majesty. (London : printed by J.B. for Andrew Crook, at the sign of the Green-Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660), by John Gauden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By His Highness a proclamation for relief of godly ministers against suits and molestations by persons sequestred, ejected, or not approved. (London : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness, MDCLV. [i.e. 1655]), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (London : printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley., 1647), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament enabling a committee of Lords and Commons to remove obstructions in the sale of the lands of the late arch-bishops and bishops. (London : Printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamy, 1648), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act, with further instructions to the trustees, contractors, treasurers and register, for the sale of the lands and possessions of the late deans, subdeans, deans and chapters, &c. : and for the better and more speedy execution of the former acts, ordinances and instructions made concerning the same. (Printed for Edward Husband and John Field ..., 1649), by England and Wales Parliament, Henry Scobell, John Field, and Edward Husband (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Martis, 19 Junii, 1649 (Printed by Richard Cotes, 1649), by England and Wales, Henry Scobell, and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• It is humbly proposed on the behalf of the purchasers of bishops, and deans and chapters lands ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The desires of his Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Generall Councell of the Army, held at Putney Octob. 21, 1647. Concerning the security of deanes and chapters lands for their arreares. Also severall proposals concerning the estates of papists, and the compositions of delinquents. With his Excellencies letter to the committee of the Army, to represent the same to the Parliament. By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Generall Councell of the Army. W. Clarke. Putney. 28. October. 1647. (London : Printed by T.H. for Iohn Playford, at his shop in the Inner Temple, 1647), by England and Wales. Army. Council and Thomas Fairfax Fairfax (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Shajiryō seishitsu no kenkyū. (東京帝國大學, 1914), by Sanji Mikami (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado de la regalía de amortizacion, en el qual se demuestra por la série de las varias edades, desde el nacimineto de la iglesia en todos los siglos y países católicos, el uso constante de la autoridad civil, par impedir las ilimitadas enagenaciones de bienes raíces en iglesias, comunidades, y otras manos-muertas : con una noticia de las leyes rundamentales de la monarquía española sobre este punto, que empieza con los godos, y se continua en los varios estados sucesivos, con aplicacion á la exigencia actual del reyno despues de su reunion, y al beneficio comun de los vasallos (A. Olíva, 1821), by Pedro Rodríguez Campomanes and Vicente Gonzalez Arnao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svodnyĭ tekst krestʹi︠a︡nskikh pori︠a︡dnykh XVI vi︠e︡ka (Tipo-lit. Shredera, 1910), by V. N. Kropacheva and Sanktpeterburgskie vysshie zhenskie kursy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anneke Jans and Trinity Church (Curtiss & White, printers, 1857), by William Heathcote De Lancey and N.Y.) Trinity Church (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land catechism Is rent just? What political economy teaches regarding it (s.n.], 1881), by William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur J.C. Prince évêque de St. Hyacinthe concernant son établissement épiscopal (s.n., 1853), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe. Évêque (1852- 1860 : Prince) and Jean Charles Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• T︠S︡erkovnyi︠a︡ zemli v Rostovskom ui︠e︡zdi︠e︡ XVII v. : po pist︠s︡ovym knigam 1629-1631 gg. (Universitetskai︠a︡ tip., 1896), by A. A. Titov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information regarding sale of certain land in the Philippines Adverse report. <To accompany H. res. no. 575.> (Govt. print. off., 1910), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Insular Affairs, Marlin E. Olmsted, and United States. Congress. 1909-1910). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lands held for ecclesiastical or religious uses in the Philippine Islands, etc. : message from the President of the United States, transmitting ... a report from the Secretary of War, with accompanying papers ... also transmitting certified copies of the acts of the Philippine Commission, numbers 56 to 68, inclusive : Feb. 25, 1901 : read, referred to the Committee on the Philippines, and ordered to be printed. (Printed by The Menace, 1901), by United States War Department and United States. Philippine Commission (1899-1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land catechism : Is rent just? What political economy teaches regarding it (J. Lovell & Son, 1881), by William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The true statement of the church leasehold question. (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinion of Mr. Dupin, advocate, of the Royal Court of Paris, on the rights of the Seminary of Montreal in Canada. Paris, 1826. (Printed by John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street, 1840), by M. Dupin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rectories of Upper Canada : being a return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 11th March, 1839, for copies or extracts of the correspondence between the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and the secretary of state, on the subject of the creation of rectories in that province by Sir John Colborne. (s.n.], 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clergy reserves : a letter from the Lord Bishop of Toronto to the Duke of Newcastle, Her Majesty's secretary to the colonies. (Printed at the Churchman Office, 1853), by John Strachan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious endowments in Canada the clergy reserve and rectory questions : a chapter of Canadian history (Dalton & Lucy, 1869), by Francis Hincks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The exclusive right of the church to the clergy reserves defended in a letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool; being an answer to the Letter of a Protestant of the Church of Scotland to His Lordship (s.n.], 1826), by Protestant, Robert Banks Jenkinson Liverpool, and Protestant of the Church of Scotland (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the Church of England in the Canadas in answer to a Letter to the Earl of Liverpool, relative to the rights of the Church of Scotland, &c. by a Protestant of the Church of Scotland (s.n.], 1826), by Protestant of the established Church of England and Protestant of the Church of Scotland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Dr. John Rolph and Christop'r A. Hagerman, Esq., His Majesty's solicitor general on the bill for appropriating the proceeds of the clergy reserves to the purposes of general education. (s.n.], 1837), by John Rolph and Christopher Alexander Hagerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Word for the Church (Printed for the author, 1837), by One of its clergy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A word on the clergy reserve question (s.n., 1846), by fl. 1846 A. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rectories of Upper Canada being a return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 11th March, 1839, for copies or extracts of the correspondence between the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and the secretary of state, on the subject of the creation of rectories in that province by Sir John Colborne. (s.n.], 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Controversy between Dr. Ryerson, Chief Superintendent of Education in Upper Canada, and Rev. J.M. Bruyere, Rector of St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, on the appropriation of the clergy reserves funds free schools vs. state schools; public libraries and common schools attacked and defended (s.n.], 1857), by J. M. Bruyère and Egerton Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to a Protestant of the Church of Scotland (s.n.], 1826), by Misopseudes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian church robbery being a brief series of letters and papers (s.n.], 1840), by W. J. D. Waddilove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of the Hon. John Rolph, on the clergy reserve question September, 1852. (s.n., 1852), by John Rolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• On clergy reserves (s.n., 1828), by W. Dummer Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief examination of a pamphlet, entitled, A letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Liverpool, K.G. : first lord commissioner of the treasury, relative to the rights of the Church of Scotland, in British North America, from a Protestant of the Church of Scotland its absurdities exposed, and its malice detected (s.n.], 1826), by Robert Stanton, Protestant. in a letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool; being an answer to the Letter of a Protestant of the Church of Scotland to His Lordship / by a Protestant, and relative to the rights of the Church of Scotland in British North America / from a Protestant of the Church of Scotland Protestant of the Church of Scotland. first lord commissioner of the treasury (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Chancery on the information of the Hon. William B. Richards, attorney general of Upper Canada, on behalf of Her Majesty, informant, and the Rev. Henry James Grasett, and others, defendants. (s.n.], 1854), by Henry James Grasett and William Buell Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• All denominations interested in the preservation of the clergy reserves for religious purposes (s.n., 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clergy reserves : A letter from the Bishop of Toronto, to the Hon. A.N. Morin, Commissioner of Crown Lands. (Thompson & Co., printers, King St. E., 1854), by John Strachan (page images at HathiTrust)

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