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• Loyalty to our King, the safety of our country, against all popish emissaries and pretenders; and ... King George the second proved to be ... the unica salus of this nation ... (M. Cooper, 1745) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from a patriot in retirement, to the right honourable Mr. William Pitt upon the resigning of his employment. (Printed for G. Woodfall, the Corner of Craig's Court, Charing-Cross, 1761), by William Pitt and Thomas Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time, containing the most remarkable motions, speeches, resolves, reports and conferences to be met with in that interval : as also the most exact estimates of the charge of government, state of the public revenue, the rise and growth of the national debt, expense of the war, proceedings on ways and means, speeches and messages from the throne, addresses and remonstrances, also the numbers pro and con upon every division, etc. ...Collected from the best authorities, compared with the Journals of the House, and illustrated with a great variety of historical and explanatory notes. Together with a large appendix, containing exact lists of every Parliament, the names of the speakers, their several posts under the government, and other valuable supplemental pieces. (R. Chandler, 1742), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hanover or Rome: Shewing the Absolute Necessity of Assisting His Majesty with Such a Sufficient Force, as May Totally Extinguish the Hopes of the Pretender's Open and Secret Abettors (attributed to Defoe by Maximillian Novak; London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715), by Daniel Defoe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reflections on the Management of Some Late Party-Disputes, and the Notorious Abuse of the Words Church, Schismatick, Fanatick, Etc., and Upon the Present Conduct of Those Called High-Church, Shewing How Destructive in Hath Been Both to Religion and Civil Society; With a Postcript to the Present Jacobites (London: J. Roberts et al., 1715) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Remarks Upon a Letter (Just Made Publick) on Certain Points of the Last Importance to these Nations, Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, in a Letter to the Author of That Pamphlet (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1746) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Blow at the Root: or, An Attempt to Prove, that No Time Ever Was, or Very Probably Ever Will Be, So Proper and Convenient as the Present, for Introducing a Further Reformation into our National Church, Universities, and Schools (London: Printed for A. Tozer, 1749), by Aaron Tozer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of John Locke, With Extracts From His Correspondence, Journals and Common-Place Books (new edition; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Lord Peter King
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster
• A collection of political tracts. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1788), by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724-1750 (Sussex Record Society, 1984), by Charles Lennox Richmond, Timothy J. McCann, and Thomas Pelham-Holles Newcastle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of John Locke, with extracts from his correspondence, journals, and common-place books. By Lord King. (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Lord Peter King and Peter King King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political ballads illustrating the administration of Sir Robert Walpole. (Clarendon press, 1916), by Milton O. Percival (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and letters of John Locke : with extracts from his journals and common-place books (Bell & Daldy, 1864), by Lord Peter King and Peter King King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time. Containing the most remarkable motions, speeches, resolves, reports and conferences to be met with in that interval: as also the most exact estimates of the charge of government, state of the public revenue, the rise and growth of the national debt, expence of the war, proceedings on ways and means, speeches and messages from the throne, addresses, and remonstrances, also the numbers pro and con upon every division &c. Many of which curious particulars were never before printed. Collected from the best authorities, compared with the journals of the House, and illustrated with a great variety of historical and explanatory notes. Together with a large appendix, containing exact lists of every Parliament, the names of the speakers, their several posts under the government, and other valuable, supplemental pieces. (Printed for Richard Chandler..., 1742), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of Great-Britain and Ireland : in three parts ... containing an accurate and impartial account of these great and famous islands, of their several counties and their inhabitants ... of the vast, populous and opulent city of London ... of the Britains original, language, temper, genius, religion, morals, trade ... with the lists of the present officers in church and state ... to which are added, maps of the three kingdoms, also the present state of His Majesty's dominions in Germany ... and a new map of them all. (Printed by J.H. for the executors of J. Nicholson, [by] A. Bell ... R. Smith ... and J. Round ..., 1718), by Guy Miege (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the death of Queen Anne to the present time : containing the most remarkable motions, speeches, resolves, reports and conferences ; as also exact estimates of the charge of government, state of the public revenue, the rise and growth of the national debt, expence of the war, proceedings on ways and means, speeches and messages from the throne, addresses and remonstrances, also the numbers pro and con upon every division &c., many of which particulars were never before printed ; collected from the best authorities, compared with the journals of the House, and illustrated with a great variety of historical and explanatory notes ; together with a large appendix containing exact lists of every parliament, the names of the speakers, their several posts under the government, and other supplemental pieces. (Printed for Richard Chandler, 1742), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cobbett's parliamentary history of England. (R. Bagshaw, 1625), by Great Britain Parliament, T. C. Hansard, and William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and speeches of the Earl of Chatham (Longman, 1810), by John Almon, Thomas Davison, Thomas Bensley, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cato's letters (Printed for J. Walthoe, etc., 1755), by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constitutional history of England, from the accession of Henry VII to the death of George II. (Widdleton, 1865), by Henry Hallam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of John Locke, with extracts from his journals and common-place books. With a general index. (B. Franklin, 1972), by Lord Peter King and Peter King King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history and proceedings of the House of Commons of Great Britain : with speeches and debates in that house, from the death of her late majesty Queen Anne. Being an exact and impartial collection not only of all such speeches and debates as have already appeared in print, but likewise, several others never before published; with the numbers pro and con on every division ... (London, 1741), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and proceedings of the House of Lords, during the Third Parliament of King George II ... (Printed for E. Timberland, 1742), by Great Britain Parliament House of Lords and Ebenezer Timberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time, containing the most remarkable motions, speeches, resolves, reports and conferences to be met with in that interval : as also the most exact estimates of the charge of government, state of the public revenue, the rise and growth of the national debt, expense of the war, proceedings on ways and means, speeches and messages from the throne, addresses and remonstrances, also the numbers pro and con upon every division, etc. ...Collected from the best authorities, compared with the Journals of the House, and illustrated with a great variety of historical and explanatory notes. Together with a large appendix, containing exact lists of every Parliament, the names of the speakers, their several posts under the government, and other valuable supplemental pieces. (R. Chandler, 1742), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resignation ([s.n.], 1756), by Thomas Pelham-Holles Newcastle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tract of the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke ([London?] : Printed for J. Scott, 1757), by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Exact list of the lords spiritual and temporal : as also of the knights and commissioners of shires, citizens and burgesses of the first parliament of King George : summon'd to meet at Westminster on the 17th day of March 1714-1715 and from thence continu'd by several prorogations until the 23rd day of November 1719 : being the fifth session of the fifth parliament of Great Britain . (Printed for R. Gosling ..., 1720) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter from a patriot in retirement, to the Right Honourable Mr. William Pitt, upon the resigning of his employment (Printed for G. Woodfall ..., 1761) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Word to a Right Honourable commoner (Printed for J. Dixwell ... and M. Cooper ..., 1761) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter from the Dutchess of M--r---gh in the shades, to the great man (Printed for S. Hooper ... , 1759), by Sarah Jennings Churchill Marlborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eloquence of the British Senate being a selection of the best speeches of the most distinguished parliamentary speakers, from the beginning of the reign of Charles I to the present time (Printed for J. Murray ..., and J. Harding ..., and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1808), by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two very singular addresses to the people of England faithfully printed from the originals, after performing a quarantine of more than forty days. (Printed for J. Scott ..., 1757) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete collection of protests from the year M.DC.XLI. to the present year M.DCC.XXXVII. (Printed for W. Webb, 1737), by Great Britain Parliament House of Lords (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Carte, author of the Full answer to The letter from a bystander. (Printed for Jacob Robinson at the Golden Key in Ludgate-Street., 1743), by Corbyn Morris, A gentleman of Cambridge, and Jacob Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon, preached before the General Assembly, at Williamsburg, March 2, 1745-6. By William Stith, A.M. Rector of Henrico Parish. ; Published at the request of the House of Burgesses. (Williamsburg [Va.]: : Printed and sold by William Parks,, M,DCC,XLV-VI [i.e., 1746]), by William Stith and Virginia General Assembly (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The town talk. : The fish pool. The plebeian. The old Whig. The spinster. &c. (J. Nichols, 1790), by Joseph Gillmore, John Nichols, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seventeen hundred and thirty-nine. Or, The modern p----s. : A satire. Most humbly inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield. (Printed for T. Reynolds; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster., 1739) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to Sir R---- W*** : with a proposal for a union, between G--- B----n and I----d. (s.n., 1732), by L. S. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Craftsman (Printed for R. Franklin, 1726), by William Pulteney Bath, Henry St. John Bolingbroke, N. Amhurst, and Caleb D'Anvers (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Our British Ally (1944), by Herbert Heaton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short Guide to Great Britain (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
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• Britain's Place in the Great Plan: Four Lectures delivered in London, June and July 1921, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Economic series (Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1913), by British Museum (Natural History) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United Kingdom, by Halford John Mackinder (Gutenberg ebook)

• La Grande charte (L. Hachette et cie, 1853), by Camille Rousset (page images at HathiTrust)

• A true collection of the writings of the author of The true born English-man. (Printed, and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of John Ker ([s.n.], 1726), by John Ker and Edmund Curll (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of John Ker ([s.n.], 1726), by John Ker and Edmund Curll (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of John Ker ([s.n.], 1726), by John Ker and Edmund Curll (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nouveau compte rendu, ou, tableau historique des finances d'Angleterre, depuis le regne de Guillaume III, jusqu'en 1784 (et se trouve a Paris, chez l'auteur, rue des Fosses-Montmartre, no. 35. Couturier, Imprimeur Libraire, Quai des Augustins, pres L'Eglise, 1784), by Michel-René Hilliard d'Auberteuil (page images at HathiTrust)

• An exact and correct list of the lords spiritual and temporal. As likewise of the knights and commissioners of shires, citizens, and burgesses, chose to serve in the ensuing Parliament. Being the first Parliament of his majesty King George II. and the seventh of Great Britain since the union. Wherein every member is justly and properly describ'd by his title, honour, dignity, or publick employment, etc. (J. Pote, 1727), by Great Britain Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conduct of the ministry impartially examined in a letter to the merchants of London. (Printed for S. Bladon in Pater-noster-Row, 1756), by David Mallet and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

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