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• The case of the College of Physicians, London. ([London? : s.n., 1688?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Chartes inédites des IXe et Xe siècles (Imprimerie de la constitution, 1898), by Alphonse Roserot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defensa de la jurisdiccion real (s.n., 1733), by Juan de Lerín Bracamonte, Juan Francisco de Mercado, and Colegio Menor de Málaga (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The great and ancient charter of the Cinque-Ports of our lord the King, and the members of the same (London : printed by T.N. for the Mayor and jurats of Hasting, 1682), by Cinque Ports (Association) and England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A charter of regulations granted to the East-India Company by Their sacred Majesties King William and Queen Mary, under the Great Seal of England, Dated the 11th. of November, 1693. in the 5th. year of Their Majesties reign. ([London : s.n., 1693]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1609-11-30 ([Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno 1609]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A charter of regulations granted to the East-India Company, by Their sacred Majesties King William and Queen Mary, under the Great Seal of England, dated the 28th. of September, 1694 ([London : s.n., 1694]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of the College of Physicians, London. ([London? : s.n., 1688?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of the city of Oxford. Shewing how far they are concerned to oppose the confirmation of the charters and pretended priviledges of the University: With an answer to a late pamphlet printed at Oxford, entituled, A defence of the rights and priviledges of the University of Oxford. ([Oxford : s.n., 1691?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Calendar of various Chancery rolls : Supplementary Close rolls, Welsh rolls, Scutage rolls. Preserved in the Public record office (Published by H.M.S.O., 1912), by Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Cyril T. Flower, William Henry Stevenson, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand-book to the land-charters, and other Saxonic documents (The Clarendon press, 1888), by John Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1926 (Macmillan Co., 1926), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American colonial charter : a study of English administration in relation thereto, chiefly after 1688 (Government Printing Office, 1904), by Louise Phelps Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digest of city charters, together with other statutory and constitutional provisions relating to cities (Printed for the Chicago Charter convention, 1906), by Chicago (Ill.) Charter convention and Augustus Raymond Hatton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775. (The Macmillan company, 1899), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1913 (The Macmillan Company, 1916), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The federal and state constitutions, colonial charters, and other organic laws of the state, territories, and colonies now or hertofore forming the United States of America. (Govt. Print. Off., 1909), by Francis Newton Thorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A model city charter, with home rule provisions recommended for the state constitutions (National municipal league, 1922), by National Municipal League. Committee on municipal program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model city charter (National Municipal League, 1941), by National Municipal League. Committee on Revision of the Model City Charter (page images at HathiTrust)
• City charter making in Minnesota (University of Minnesota, 1922), by William Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A model city charter and municipal home rule as prepared by the Committee on municipal program of the National municipal league. (Philadelphia, 1916), by National Municipal League. Committee on municipal program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the exhibited manuscripts ... (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1912), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English works of Sir Henry Spelman (London, 1723), by Henry Spelman and Edmund Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to the charters and rolls in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum (Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1900), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Francis Bridges Bickley, and Henry John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hand-list of charters, deeds, and similar documents in the possession of the John Rylands library ... (The University press; [etc., etc.], 1925), by John Rylands Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the exhibited manuscripts ... (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1923), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical essay on the Magna charta of King John : to which are added, the Great Charter in Latin and English, the charters of liberties and confirmations, granted by Henry III. and Edward I, the original Charter of the Forests, and various authentic instruments connected with them : explanatory notes on their several privileges, a descriptive account of the principal originals and editions extant, both in print and manuscript, and other illustrations, derived from the most interesting and authentic sources (Printed for J. Major and R. Jennings, 1829), by Richard Thomson and Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federal and State constitutions, colonial charters, and other organic laws of the States, territories, and Colonies, now or heretofore forming the United States of America. (Scholarly Press, 1968), by Francis Newton Thorpe and United States (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second anniversary of the Merchants Fund, : January 24, 1856, with the report of the board of managers, and the address of Wm. Bacon Stevens, D.D., rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia. (C. Sherman & Son, printers, 1856), by Pa.) Merchants' Fund (Philadelphia, William Bacon Stevens, Pennsylvania, and C. Sherman & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical charters and constitutional documents of the City of London. (Whiting, 1887), by London (England) and Walter de Gray Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the exhibited manuscripts. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1928), by British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (The Macmillan company ;, 1910), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antiquities : consisting of translation of some three hundred inedited charters and deeds, dating from A.D. 1171, having many autographs and seals, and containing references to the Marmion, Montfort, Devereaux and other families : origin of Stonehenge, and similar remains : tumuli or grave mounds, recently discovered in the midlands : royal castle of Bromwich : visits of Shakespeare to Park Hall : Morderay Shackspeare and Catherine Sadler : wager of battle : early Anglo-Hebrew Christians : occupancy and ownership of land from the conquest : Roman coins recently discovered : hoar-stones : survey of some Roman roads (White and Pike, 1884), by Christopher Chattock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents relating to the university and college of Cambridge ... Pub. by direction of the Commissioners appointed ... to inquire into the state, discipline, studies, and revenues of the said university and colleges. ([publisher not identified], 1852), by University of Cambridge and Discipline Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the State (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charter for the city of Cincinnati ([Cincinnati, 1914), by Cincinnati (Ohio) and Cincinnati (Ohio). Charter Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal charters granted to the Burgesses of Nottingham, A.D. 1155-1712. (Bernard Quaritch, 1890), by Nottingham (England) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive catalogue of the charters, rolls, deeds, pedigrees, pamphlets, newspapers, monumental inscriptions, maps, and miscellaneous papers forming the Jackson collection at the Sheffield public reference library. (J. W. Northend, 1914), by Sheffield (England). Free Public Libraries and Museum, Arthur Jackson, A. Hermann Thomas, and T. Walter Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to the manuscripts, autographs, charters, seals, illuminations and bindings exhibited in the Department of manuscripts and in the Grenville library. With twenty plates. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1899), by British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts and Edward John Long Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1926 (The Macmillan company, 1933), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La charte communale de Veynes, (Hautes-Alpes) : 17 Novembre 1296 (L. Larose et Forcel, 1886), by A. Prudhomme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charters of the Priory of Beauly, with notices of the priories of Pluscardine and Ardchattan and of the family of the founder, John Byset. (Printed for the Grampian club [by M'Farlane and Erskine], 1877), by Edmund Chisholm-Batten and Grampian Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (The Macmillan Company;, 1914), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1898 (The Macmillan company, 1908), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Granting federal charters : hearings before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first and second sessions on H.R. 2248, S. 1397, H.R. 1259, and H.R. 3897 ... November 10, 1987, and March 3, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1898 (The Macmillan company, 1914), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the autograph letters, manuscripts, original charters, and royal, baronial, and ecclesiastical seals exhibited in the Department of manuscripts and in the King's library. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1887), by British Library. Department of Manuscripts and Edward Maunde Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federal and State constitutions : colonial charters, and other organic laws of the states, territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States of America. (Govt. Print. Off., 1909), by Francis Newton Thorpe and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquities: consisting of translations of some three hundred inedited charters and deeds (Cornish brothers, 1884), by Christopher Chattock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775. (The Macmillan co., 1899), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (The Macmillan company, 1906), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected documents illustrative of the history of the United States, 1776-1861 (Macmillan, 1898), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the autograph letters, manuscripts, original charters, and royal, baronial and ecclesiastical seals (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1873), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and Edward Augustus Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Local, special and private legislation, municipal charters, gubernatorial veto, initiative and referendum as provided for and regulated by constitutions of the several states. (Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford company, state printers, 1907), by Michigan State Library. Legislative Reference Department and Michigan. 1907-1908 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gloversville charter and bylaws! to which is appended the General Statute entitled "An Act to authorize the Villages of...New York to furnish pure and wholesome water...", passed May 29th, 1875; together with the rules and regulations of the Gloversville water works and fire department! (Intelligencer Steam Print, 1879), by Gloversville (N.Y.). Board of Trustees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of the charter rolls preserved in the Public Office : Herny III - Henry VIII (H.M. Stationary Office, 1903), by Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railroad and other pamphlets (Edwards, Broughton & Co., printers and binders, 1880), by Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Company and N.C.) Edwards and Broughton Company (Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical essay on the Magna charta of King John : to which are added, the Great charter in Latin and English; the charters of libraries and confirmations granted by Henry iii, and Edward i; te original Charter of the forests ... (J. Majors, 1829), by Richard Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A model city charter and municipal home rule (National municipal league, 1916), by National Municipal League. Committee on Revision of the Model City Charter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The European and North American Railway Company : its charters, organization, condition, means, and prospects. (Cambridge : J. Wilson, 1869., 1869), by European and North American Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1898 (The Macmillan company, 1911), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of a model charter for American cities : an address before the Second National Conference on Good City Government, Minneapolis, December 10, 1894. (Milwaukee, Wis., 1895), by Edmund J. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter and supplemental charter of the Hudson's Bay Company (s.n., 1884), by Hudson's Bay Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Draft of a supplemental charter for the Hudson's Bay Company (s.n., 1884), by Hudson's Bay Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act of incorporation of the city of Sherbrooke, and amendments (s.n.], 1881), by Sherbrooke (Quebec) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of the charter and proceedings of the Hudson's Bay Company, with reference to the grant of Vancouver's Island (T. Saunders, 1849), by James Edward Fitzgerald and R. Montgomery Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to make more ample provision for the incorporation of the town of Three Rivers (S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, 1857), by Trois-Rivières (Quebec) and Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Déchéance de charte (s.n., 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, was lately laid before five of the most eminent lawyers in England with some queries, as to the legal effect of various clauses ... (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acte pour faire de plus amples dispositions pour l'incorporation de la ville des Trois-Rivières 20 Victoriæ, Cap. CXXIX. (S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, 1857), by Trois-Rivières (Québec) and Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (Macmillan Co., 1904), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A schedule of the records and other documents of the Corporation of Bedford. (Printed by Order of the Corporation, 1883), by Bedford (England) and Theed William Pearse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary source book of American history, 1606-1913 (The Macmillan Company, 1921), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the manuscripts, autographs, charters, seals, illuminations and bindings exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the Grenville Library. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1895), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments de chartes du Xe siècle provenant de Saint-Julien de Tours recueillis sur les registres d'état-civil d'Indre-et-Loire (A. Picard, 1886), by C. L. Grandmaison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greater New York charter : as enacted in 1897 and revised in 1901, as further amended by subsequent acts, down to and including the year 1917 : with notes and references to judicial decisions relating thereto together with appendixes ... (Baker, Voorhis, 1918), by New York (N.Y.) and Mark Ash (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter of the City of Albion, state of Michigan. (Recorder Press, 1915), by Mich.) Albion (Calhoun County (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill for an act to provide a charter for the city of Chicago ... and to enlarge the rights and powers of said city : draft of proposed charter, as submitted by committee on rules, procedure and general plan. (Chicago Charter Convention, 1905), by Illinois and Chicago (Ill.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter of the City of Auburn; chapter 438, laws of the State of New York, 1920, as amended by chapter 323, laws of 1921. Became a law May 3, 1920. ([Albany, N.Y., 1921), by New York (State) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive catalogue of the charters & muniments of the Gresley family ... at Drakelowe. (London, 1895), by I. H. Jeayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charter and ordinances of the city of Richmond in force January 1, 1871 : to which is added a catalogue of the city officers from 1845 to 1870, inclusive... (Printed at the Democratic Herald office, 1870), by Richmond (Ind.) and Thomas W. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home rule charter system of American municipal government. (1915), by Tso-Shuen Chang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the Revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commissions and instructions to colonial governors, the Duke's laws, the laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive. (J.B. Lyon, State Printer, 1894), by New York (State), A. Judd Northrup, William H. Johnson, Charles Z. Lincoln, and New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the autograph letters, manuscripts, original charters, and royal, baronial, and ecclesiastical seals : exhibited to the public in the Department of Manuscripts. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1882), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and Edward Augustus Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corporation report of Secretary of State : March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905 (Tribune Prtg., 1903), by West Virginia. Secretary of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le "vetus codex longobardicus" de Baluze autrefois conservé à la chambre des comptes de Paris. (Analyse et extraits.) (Paris, 1915), by Lucien Auvray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wonderful Nassau wants to grow; a proposed form of government that will permit it. (The Nassau county charter, 1932), by Nassau County (N.Y.). Democratic law committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charter (London : Printed for Samuel Lee and Benjamin Alsop ..., [1680]), by Corporation of London, S. G., and Charles 1630-1685 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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